Sentences with phrase «when nuclear explosions»
The working group on the Anthropocene — part of the International Union of Geological Sciences — favours a date around 1950, when nuclear explosions and the start of modern consumerism started to have long - term effects on the biosphere.
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When this so called «rapture» happens, and however it happens — earthquake, flooding, nuclear explosion, it will only happen in places where Christians live.
If a car, when it breaks down, causes a nuclear explosion, you can blame the driver for not taking care of the engine — a little bit, but you also blame the stupid car company that made a car that is ABLE to break down and cause such death and destruction by its mere misuse.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009 Science historian Michael D. Gordin recounts the events leading up to August 29, 1949, when the Soviets detonated an atomic bomb in the deserts of Kazakhstan — a test explosion that brought the U.S. monopoly on nuclear weapons to a close.
In late April 1986, Sladek was hobbling around her home with a broken leg, the result of a skiing accident, when she heard a news report about an explosion at a Soviet nuclear power plant.
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA — Even when they're underground, nuclear tests can be detected in the skies — and as a result, global satellite networks could become a powerful new tool in the arsenal of weapons to help detect clandestine underground nuclear explosions, a team of scientists reported here today at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union.
On Earth today, curium exists only when manufactured in laboratories or as a byproduct of nuclear explosions.
When the nuclear reactions that power them run out of fuel, the stars can no longer resist their own intense gravity; they collapse and trigger the massive explosions called supernovae.
When the energy released by the nuclear fusion in these giant stars no longer balances the contracting force of gravity, the whole star can suddenly fall in on itself, triggering a cataclysmic explosion.
A pulsar is formed when a massive star runs out of nuclear fuel and dies in a cataclysmic explosion called a supernova.
He has no compunction about embarrassing poor nuclear physicist Dr. Julia Kelly (Nicole Kidman), the acting head of the White House Nuclear Smuggling Group, when she conducts an ill - informed briefing on a nuclear explosion and train accident somewhere in the Urals of nuclear physicist Dr. Julia Kelly (Nicole Kidman), the acting head of the White House Nuclear Smuggling Group, when she conducts an ill - informed briefing on a nuclear explosion and train accident somewhere in the Urals of Nuclear Smuggling Group, when she conducts an ill - informed briefing on a nuclear explosion and train accident somewhere in the Urals of nuclear explosion and train accident somewhere in the Urals of Russia.
When a failed nuclear fusion experiment results in an explosion that kills his wife, Dr. Otto Octavius (Alfred Molina) is transformed into Dr. Octopus, a cyborg with deadly metal tentacles.
[minor spoiler] Yet when you think «Dawn of Justice» couldn't get any worse, when there couldn't be anymore nuclear explosions or buildings to fall; a creature that looks like something out of a Peter Jackson film appears.
Perhaps it's a learned response, from growing up in an era where even the best game stories featured characters who could shrug off a nuclear explosion in «game mode» with a healing potion, but who could then be fatally wounded by a single sword swipe in «story mode», but I've always been able to compartmentalize what happens in a game's story from what happens in the gameplay when necessary.
When the crunch comes and the place gets locked down, you are safe from nuclear explosions, asteroid strikes, pandemics and sudden pole shifts, all in the comfort of your own RV.
We had transparency and replication of climate science research — but lost them when climate science was politicized (which I somewhat arbitrarily date to the publication of «Nuclear Winter: Global Consequences of Multiple Nuclear Explosions ``, Carl Sagan et al, Science, December 1983 (for an analysis of this sorry spectacle see «Nuclear winter: science and politics ``, Brian Martin, Science and Public Policy, October 1988).