Search results for "Nuclear weapon" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • to nations not recognized as "Nuclear Weapon States" by the Nuclear ... for in a country suspected of nuclear weapon ambitions. ...
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  • 134 helps measure cesium output by the nuclear power industry. Cesium-137 ... Cesium-137 is produced during the detonation of nuclear weapons and ...
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  • , about 4 orders of magnitude greater than nuclear energy that can be liberated ... it could be used in antimatter catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion. Generating ...
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  • and oriented his scientific career to nuclear physics.Edward Teller and ... in the fields of quantum, molecular, and nuclear physics. In 1941, after ...
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  • the two nations. Each nation had tested nuclear weapons in 1998, meaning ... after the Kargil Conflict, where both nuclear armed countries fought high ...
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  • India following the 1974 Smiling Buddha nuclear weapon test. ... used in the production of a nuclear weapon) has led to campaigns ...
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  • referred to as Lord Rutherford, was a nuclear physicist who became known ... Marsden experiment) that discovered the nuclear nature of atoms. It was ...
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  • metal has a low neutron cross-section for nuclear capture. The common oxidation ... strontium-90, which is a product of nuclear explosions. ...
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  • Fault Tree Handbook] (Washington, DC: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 1981 ... " Without any safety features, nuclear reactors might have "catastrophic ...
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  • temporarily amplified by a high-altitude nuclear explosion (the Starfish ... There have been nuclear tests in space that have caused artificial ...
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  • impacts on humankind in their practical and nuclear uses. ... his students, made the first discovery of nuclear energy, by identifying the ...
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  • named Cosmos 954, built with an onboard nuclear reactor fell from orbit ... org/feature/operation-morning-light-the-nuclear-satellite-almost-14411 Operation ...
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  • Kingdom and Canada to develop the first nuclear weapon (atomic bomb). Formally designated as the Manhattan Engineering District (MED), Manhattan Project ...
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  • with the latest Hedgehog anti-submarine weapon. The frigate possessed less ... , California- and Virginia- classes—were nuclear-powered. These were larger ...
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  • Seaborg advised ten presidents from Truman to Clinton on nuclear policy ... years. Prior to the test of the first nuclear weapon, Seaborg joined with ...
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  • Arsenic has been proposed as a "salting" material for nuclear weapons—that is, as an agent that could increase the radioactivity ...
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  • ;Nuclear reactions particles. This was the first manmade nuclear reaction, produced by Cockroft ...
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  • intellectual light of the movement against nuclear weapons in Europe. He was ... associated with the nascent movement for nuclear disarmament in the late ...
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  • his work on the development of the first nuclear reactor, and for his contributions ... he worked on construction of the first nuclear reactor. ...
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  • on the project. He was concerned about a nuclear arms race, and is quoted ... what it would mean in practice to create a nuclear weapon. ...
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