Search results for "Nuclear weapon" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • Fat Man mushroom cloud resulting from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki ... World War, the shock of the first use of nuclear weapons and increasing belief ...
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  • Treaty (1963) prohibited all test detonations of nuclear weapons except underground. *Camp David Accords (1978) agreement between Egypt and Israel ...
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  • Solar thermal rockets and Nuclear thermal rockets typically propose to use liquid hydrogen for an Isp (Specific Impulse) of around 600-900 seconds ...
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  • June 1948, the first Soviet test of a nuclear weapon in August 1949, the Communist ... * The Nuclear Delusion: Soviet-American Relations in the Atomic Age ...
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  • Britain's successful development of a nuclear weapon, although the first successful test did not occur until 1952, after he left office. ...
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  • chiefs had decided to use their new super-weapon to bring the war to a speedy ... by Col. Paul Tibbets, dropped a nuclear weapon named "Little Boy ...
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  • in which he discussed the dangers of nuclear war and the moral threat ... to make the U.S. invulnerable to nuclear weapon missile attack, by means ...
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  • TGV train and the turn towards reliance on nuclear power as France's main ... Giscard saw trade as a "weapon of peace," a term used by ...
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  • who authorized the military use of this weapon.]] Truman had been Vice ... than expected and exploded its first weapon on August 29, 1949, commencing ...
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  • been designed for medium-range stand-off nuclear missions in Europe and did ... Pearl Harbor attacks—was sunk by the nuclear-powered submarine HMS Conqueror ...
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  • of Nuclear Weapons, making it a nuclear-weapon-free state, and in 2023, Comoros was invited as a non-member guest to the G7 summit in Hiroshima. ...
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  • of robotics, ballistics, computer science, nuclear physics, and theoretical ... claims concerning a "teleforce" weapon [https://teslaresearch ...
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  • * Radioactive pollutants produced by nuclear explosions and war explosives ... * Military, such as nuclear weapons, toxic gases, germ warfare and ...
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  • to the NPT, and all permanent members are nuclear weapons states. ... nations officially recognized as "nuclear-weapon states" under the ...
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  • which is shortened dramatically by a new Anti-Ice weapon. The book asks the question—what if nuclear weapons had existed in Victorian times? ...
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  • usually lived close together with each nuclear family in a separate dwelling ... The most common hunting weapon before the introduction of European ...
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  • Assembly in 1953, Eisenhower said that nuclear technology “must be put ... across the country was key in an era of nuclear paranoia and Soviet Union ...
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  • by Vladimir Lenin as a "devastating weapon against countless conspiracies ... who provided the KGB with information on nuclear developments in Britain ...
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  • Russell was a vigorous proponent of nuclear disarmament and an outspoken ... political causes, primarily related to nuclear disarmament and opposition ...
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  • Hussein. Violence continues, used as a political weapon. ... regime's human rights abuses. Any nuclear ambitions had been thwarted ...
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  • detonators or slapper detonators in nuclear weapons and other specialty weapons. Experimental work is under way using banks of capacitors as ...
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  • * "Torness," headland and site of Nuclear Power Station ... archdemon"; "it is the celestial weapon, the thunderbolt accompanying ...
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  • terrorist groups and attempting to develop nuclear weapons. In 1997, Mohammad ... to denounce Iran for allegedly developing nuclear weapons. In October 2003 ...
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  • of the Soviet Union testing almost 500 nuclear weapons, above ground and ... Test Site, the USSR's main nuclear weapon test site was founded ...
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  • *Kaimingye germ weapon attack *Changteh Chemical Weapon Attack *Battle of Zhejiang-Jiangxi ...
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  • On July 7, 1981, the Israeli Air Force bombed the Iraqi nuclear reactor ... that it believes Israel to possess nuclear weapons, an assertion the ...
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  • blue, spectacular lightning and forging such weapon (which is hard and very expensive) may still end up cheaper than equivalent digital post-processing ...
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  • computed tomography, ultrasonography, and nuclear magnetic resonance tomography ... * Nuclear medicine is concerned with studying human organ systems ...
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  • However, Libya publicly gave up any nuclear aspirations after the U ... the use of oil embargoes as a political weapon for challenging the West ...
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  • to signal detection of missile launches, nuclear detonations, and other high ... The GPS satellites also carry nuclear detonation detectors, which ...
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  • versa), most notably the strong and weak nuclear forces, which were not well ... that the Third Reich might be developing nuclear weapons based on their own ...
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  • designed as a principal strategic weapon never realized their potential ... that battleships still were a lethal weapon. The indecision of Admiral ...
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  • landslides, large meteorite impacts, and nuclear weapons testing at sea all ... at one of the world's most powerful nuclear power plants. At least seven ...
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  • something more important than the ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position—the ... over, counted down from ten to zero and a nuclear bomb exploded. The message ...
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  • in every three Egyptian soldiers had an anti-tank weapon. "Never before had such intensive anti-tank fire been brought to bear on the battlefield ...
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  • those resulting from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster in ... force, equipped with the third largest nuclear weapon arsenal in the world ...
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  • disciplines are the development of nuclear weapons, the Three Gorges Dam, the design and use of Sports Utility Vehicles and the extraction of ...
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  • Colorado. The Denver area is home to the former nuclear weapons plant Rocky Flats and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. In 2005, a $310 ...
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  • maneuvers, or the testing of any type of weapon. Military personnel or equipment ... *Article 5--prohibits nuclear explosions or disposal of radioactive wastes; ...
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  • The domestic unit is either a nuclear family, or two generations in one household, tending to include the husband's parents. In urban areas ...
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  • troops into battle, often without a weapon of his own. Begins to develop ... scale war with China and, if necessary, nuclear war with the Soviet Union ...
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  • International Business Machines Corporation (known as IBM or "Big Blue;" IBM ) is a multinational computer technology and consulting ...
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  • of this formidable opponent using the weapon of ostracism. The ostensible ... Hegemonic Rivalry: From Thucydides to the Nuclear Age (Westview Press, 1991 ...
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  • of the period, including the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, egalitarianism ... that the law should not be used as a weapon to advance special interests. ...
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  • the 1963 treaty banning above-ground testing of nuclear weapons. The much-improved data from the WWSSN instruments allowed seismologists to map precisely ...
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  • that reduce access to biological, chemical, nuclear, and other weapons are recommended to reduce collective violence. World Health Organization, ...
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  • The Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated, was one ... especially after 1949, when the U.S. nuclear monopoly ended with the ...
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  • medicine, navigation, metallurgy, mass production, nuclear power, rocketry, and computers have been completely or partially driven by war. ...
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