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- to nations not recognized as "Nuclear Weapon States" by the Nuclear ... for in a country suspected of nuclear weapon ambitions. ...49 KB (7,262 words) - 10:10, 11 March 2023
- 134 helps measure cesium output by the nuclear power industry. Cesium-137 ... Cesium-137 is produced during the detonation of nuclear weapons and ...14 KB (1,931 words) - 00:09, 4 December 2023
- , about 4 orders of magnitude greater than nuclear energy that can be liberated ... it could be used in antimatter catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion. Generating ...23 KB (3,458 words) - 06:25, 31 July 2023
- and oriented his scientific career to nuclear physics.Edward Teller and ... in the fields of quantum, molecular, and nuclear physics. In 1941, after ...41 KB (6,221 words) - 23:53, 12 February 2024
- the two nations. Each nation had tested nuclear weapons in 1998, meaning ... after the Kargil Conflict, where both nuclear armed countries fought high ...17 KB (2,490 words) - 06:07, 21 August 2023
- India following the 1974 Smiling Buddha nuclear weapon test. ... used in the production of a nuclear weapon) has led to campaigns ...45 KB (6,704 words) - 00:40, 17 November 2022
- referred to as Lord Rutherford, was a nuclear physicist who became known ... Marsden experiment) that discovered the nuclear nature of atoms. It was ...17 KB (2,514 words) - 19:33, 13 February 2024
- metal has a low neutron cross-section for nuclear capture. The common oxidation ... strontium-90, which is a product of nuclear explosions. ...12 KB (1,634 words) - 21:34, 4 June 2023
- Fault Tree Handbook] (Washington, DC: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 1981 ... " Without any safety features, nuclear reactors might have "catastrophic ...19 KB (2,912 words) - 20:39, 17 April 2023
- temporarily amplified by a high-altitude nuclear explosion (the Starfish ... There have been nuclear tests in space that have caused artificial ...14 KB (2,020 words) - 14:17, 3 May 2023
- impacts on humankind in their practical and nuclear uses. ... his students, made the first discovery of nuclear energy, by identifying the ...14 KB (2,057 words) - 05:21, 24 November 2022
- named Cosmos 954, built with an onboard nuclear reactor fell from orbit ... org/feature/operation-morning-light-the-nuclear-satellite-almost-14411 Operation ...11 KB (1,706 words) - 13:20, 22 January 2023
- Kingdom and Canada to develop the first nuclear weapon (atomic bomb). Formally designated as the Manhattan Engineering District (MED), Manhattan Project ...52 KB (8,009 words) - 11:05, 9 March 2023
- with the latest Hedgehog anti-submarine weapon. The frigate possessed less ... , California- and Virginia- classes—were nuclear-powered. These were larger ...18 KB (2,809 words) - 06:46, 15 April 2024
- Seaborg advised ten presidents from Truman to Clinton on nuclear policy ... years. Prior to the test of the first nuclear weapon, Seaborg joined with ...29 KB (4,299 words) - 07:54, 24 January 2023
- Arsenic has been proposed as a "salting" material for nuclear weapons—that is, as an agent that could increase the radioactivity ...21 KB (2,920 words) - 04:00, 15 August 2023
- ;Nuclear reactions particles. This was the first manmade nuclear reaction, produced by Cockroft ...16 KB (2,302 words) - 04:29, 29 October 2022
- intellectual light of the movement against nuclear weapons in Europe. He was ... associated with the nascent movement for nuclear disarmament in the late ...19 KB (2,741 words) - 17:30, 12 February 2024
- his work on the development of the first nuclear reactor, and for his contributions ... he worked on construction of the first nuclear reactor. ...25 KB (3,781 words) - 18:56, 13 February 2024
- 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. ...21 KB (3,171 words) - 09:45, 11 March 2023
- Little Boy device became the first nuclear weapon used in war when it was ... [http://www.fas.org/nuke/intro/nuke/design.htm Nuclear Weapon Design ...48 KB (6,867 words) - 15:33, 16 January 2024
- in China and development of the Soviet nuclear weapons made him re-consider ... the technology necessary to build a nuclear weapon. On Monday, 9th October ...33 KB (5,024 words) - 16:59, 7 May 2021
- In the late twentieth century, French nuclear testing in the territory ... French community. In 1966 France began a nuclear testing program on uninhabited ...18 KB (2,636 words) - 10:55, 11 April 2024
- In physics and nuclear chemistry, nuclear fusion is the process by ... and pressure inside a fusion reactor or nuclear weapon. ...39 KB (6,029 words) - 23:53, 16 November 2022
- as the first city in history subjected to nuclear warfare when the United ... , August 6, 1945, the nuclear weapon Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima ...32 KB (4,471 words) - 21:47, 30 January 2024
- by several interactions. The strong nuclear force, not observed at the ... except for the unlikely cases of a nuclear weapon detonation or an accident ...30 KB (4,559 words) - 22:46, 7 December 2022
- progressed, hydro electric, coal, oil and nuclear power stations were built ... there have been developments in both nuclear and biological weaponry ...12 KB (1,940 words) - 21:14, 22 October 2022
- of the atom bomb and the danger of nuclear war. His wife, Evelyn Thompson ... American politics, ever watchful of the danger of nuclear war. ...17 KB (2,453 words) - 08:08, 28 January 2024
- to the earth and humankind through nuclear warfare in the mid-twentieth ... offset the advantages of victory. With nuclear weapons, the fighting of ...24 KB (3,815 words) - 17:18, 4 November 2022
- the two countries after they had developed nuclear weapons. (India and Pakistan ... with separatists in Kashmir as well as nuclear tests by both countries ...53 KB (8,038 words) - 18:09, 14 May 2024
- * 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
