Search results for "Nuclear weapon" - New World Encyclopedia
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- * The plutonium used in nuclear weapon pits is machined by alloying ... isotope of gallium, have been used in nuclear medicine imaging. This use ...15 KB (2,122 words) - 04:06, 18 April 2024
- to bring about the worldwide ban on above ground nuclear weapons testing. * Charles Pratt - founder of Pratt Institute. * John D. Rockefeller ...10 KB (1,417 words) - 03:17, 24 November 2022
- On the morning of August 6, 1945, the United States Army Air Forces dropped the nuclear weapon "Little Boy" on the city of Hiroshima ...48 KB (7,479 words) - 07:20, 17 November 2023
- von Neumann worked out key steps in the nuclear physics involved in thermonuclear ... tests in the Pacific or in later work on nuclear weapons at Los Alamos, New ...30 KB (4,433 words) - 00:38, 10 February 2023
- Its short-lived isotope 99mTc is used in nuclear medicine for a wide variety ... a by-product of fission of uranium-235 in nuclear reactors and is extracted ...43 KB (6,283 words) - 22:03, 13 January 2024
- World War II effort to develop the first nuclear weapons, at the secret Los ... * Nuclear weapon * Nuclear energy ==Notes== ==References== ...58 KB (8,808 words) - 01:10, 8 February 2023
- *In the film Crimson Tide, the naval officers of the nuclear submarine ... saw a machinegun, a tank, a Viet Cong, or a nuclear weapon. ...24 KB (3,682 words) - 15:21, 27 November 2023
- work to stop the production and deployment of nuclear weapons. ==Programs and projects== Today, the AFSC has more than two hundred staff working ...12 KB (1,779 words) - 03:35, 24 July 2023
- is why it was a top strategic location for nuclear weapons activities during ... to use the islands as a launching pad for nuclear warheads—contrary to Palau ...19 KB (2,897 words) - 10:59, 11 March 2023
- the Church of Scotland is a firm opponent of nuclear weaponry. ==Governance and administration== The Church of Scotland is Presbyterian in polity ...20 KB (2,987 words) - 22:00, 10 December 2023
- took the form of an arms race involving nuclear and conventional weapons ... concern that it would escalate into a full nuclear exchange with hundreds of ...49 KB (7,114 words) - 22:28, 7 January 2024
- an ordinance banning vessels carrying nuclear weapons from Kobe Port. ... Submarine, Research Vessels and Vehicles, Nuclear reactor, Satellite. ...32 KB (4,446 words) - 03:58, 4 March 2023
- and philosophical issues, including nuclear weapons, nuclear power, ... Ōe was involved with pacifist and anti-nuclear campaigns and wrote ...45 KB (5,943 words) - 21:09, 28 September 2023
- Fear of Japanese retaliation [to chemical weapon use] lessened because ... === Nuclear weapons=== On Marshall's orders, Major-General John ...36 KB (5,455 words) - 21:51, 17 February 2023
- missiles (ICBMs) when it was realized that nuclear weapons carried on a rocket ... Rockets remain a popular military weapon. The use of large battlefield ...39 KB (5,911 words) - 02:27, 16 December 2022
- rocket motors, coolant released by RORSAT nuclear powered satellites, small ... place during the Chinese anti-satellite weapon (ASAT) test on January 11, 2007. ...13 KB (1,862 words) - 15:16, 27 April 2023
- from the use of conventional weapons or nuclear weapons because the destructive ... of its origin, is considered a chemical weapon unless it is used for purposes ...61 KB (9,020 words) - 14:48, 5 December 2023
- the development of the independent French nuclear deterrent and the withdrawal ... force"). France tested its first nuclear weapon, Gerboise Bleue, on February ...52 KB (7,555 words) - 20:25, 17 March 2024
- of causing explosions include the use of nuclear weapons, high-intensity ... * Nuclear weapon * Weapon ==References== * Akhavan, Jacqueline. 2004 ...41 KB (6,258 words) - 23:56, 24 March 2024
- He asserted that a nuclear weapon could not be made small enough to fit in the nose of a missile as in an ICBM. In his book Modern Arms and Free ...25 KB (3,736 words) - 14:34, 3 May 2023
