HOW is a speck of dust like an atom bomb?
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Yes, we've made some bad things, like the atom bomb.
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I remember one friend said it could be an atom bomb.
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The devastation in 1945 after the atom bomb was dropped on Nagasaki.
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"It's thought of as kind of the atom bomb remedy," Saver said.
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Today, an influenza pandemic could be more devastating than an atom bomb.
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Iran has always denied it has any plans to develop an atom bomb.
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" Mr. Smith called the film "the atom bomb of the anti-abortion movement.
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In the 1940s, this gave way to an ethical debate that split the world into two groups: Those who sided with Robert Oppenheimer, creator of the atom bomb, believed that a stronger successor to the atom bomb was dangerous and unnecessary.
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His assertion has not been proven — he more likely has a boosted atom bomb, which uses a radioactive form of hydrogen that makes it more powerful than a normal atom bomb but not nearly as powerful as a true hydrogen bomb.
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When people say "atom bomb," they mean a fission device using uranium or plutonium.
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An atom bomb similarly creates an expanding plasma, albeit on a far grander scale.
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In its heyday, the plane was used to drop the atom bomb on Japan.
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"The Hiroshima atom-bomb exploded with an energy of about 63,23,000,000,000 Joules," Cheng said.
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He enjoys the way Erró blends pop culture with capitalism, warfare and the atom bomb.
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His swirling "4-6-62" has the feel of a tornado, or an atom bomb.
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If you believe a false physical theory, you won't be able to build an atom bomb.
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No individual knows everything it takes to build a cathedral, an atom bomb or an aircraft.
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A fighter jet took off with a mock version of the nation's first precision-guided atom bomb.
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" The editors of Nova magazine suggested in vitro fertilization was "the biggest threat since the atom bomb.
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Chinese technicians reassembled the shreds, recovering clues which helped China test an atom bomb four years later.
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This man was exposed within 1 kilometer of the hypocenter of the atom bomb dropped on Aug.
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The ubiquitous image of the atom bomb is the inciting or concluding event; the fallout is technology.
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It's changing the balance of global power, as surely as the airplane and the atom bomb did.
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Seven decades after it was struck by an atom bomb, Hiroshima is a city of peace and hope.
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We had this very compelling fact pattern that was, by their estimation, atom bomb-like, or very unique.
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On July 16th 1945, the first atom bomb, a plutonium-implosion device, was tested at Alamogordo, New Mexico.
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Right: A damaged cross lies in the devastation after the atom bomb was dropped on Nagasaki in 1945.
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In 1949, only four years after the World War II had ended, Russia detonated its first atom bomb.
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" She called the atom bomb "a marvelous gift that was given to our country by a wise God.
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McHugh says she mostly wanted to ask about Irving's research into Nazi Germany's attempt to develop the atom bomb.
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After all, Godzilla, like Frankenstein, originally came into existence because of an act of scientific hubris (the atom bomb).
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And at that point, the lawyers wrote to me and they said you may be sitting on an atom bomb.
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We fixate on street protest, as if it's the political atom bomb, rather than a singular tool with questionable efficacy.
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In other words, the lives of his children spanned everything from the Battle of New Orleans to the atom bomb.
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By the time they get to them, it's like an atom bomb of piss and shit went off in there.
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Exaggerated comparisons to the atom bomb will make it harder to reason about the real, complex challenges that AI poses.
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Iran denies ever having had a nuclear weapons program and says it would never seek to obtain an atom bomb.
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Noam Chomsky: We have to be a little cautious about not trying to kill a gnat with an atom bomb.
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Here was an apparently original photo of the Enola Gay, the plane that transported the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
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But it's no less true that the humble refrigerator, in a roundabout way, enabled the development of the first atom bomb.
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Yet by the end of the second world war, it had penetrated Britain's atom-bomb programme and over 70 American institutions.
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Nine countries have stockpiles of nuclear weapons thousands deep and more powerful than the atom bomb that hit Hiroshima in 1945.
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What beckoned was the idea of installing near the atom bomb a separate capsule that would hold much more thermonuclear fuel.
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That seems a little bit of a reach since he appears to have intended to throw an atom bomb with it.
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When the world faced Armageddon in the 1940s, in the form of Hitler's atom bomb program, Washington responded with the Manhattan Project.
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Sain was able to catch the baby boy, who they named Atom Bomb Sain, before he hit the floor of the car.
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The United States and China began discussing a resolution to expand the existing sanctions after Pyongyang's atom bomb test on Jan 6.
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They were known as thermonuclear because their ignition required the blistering heats of an exploding atom bomb, which acted like a match.
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The United States in 203 injected a tiny amount of thermonuclear fuel into the core of an atom bomb, boosting its power.
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When he awoke, he found that he had been thrown many yards by the detonation of the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
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It also set a cap of 130 tonnes of heavy water, which in large quantities can yield plutonium, an alternative atom bomb fuel.
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Living with the fear of the atom bomb, Conner might have thought that he too was on death row facing government-sanctioned execution.
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The weapon relies on a small atom bomb, inside a thick metal casing, that works like a match to ignite the hydrogen fuel.
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Release just one pregnant rat on an island and soon enough the invasive predators will have decimated that pristine environment like an atom bomb.
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We couldn't get him any help whatsoever, because this man had to prove that this happened specifically when they were testing the atom bomb.
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Helen Toner, an analyst at Georgetown's Center for Security and Emerging Technology, has argued that a better comparison than the atom bomb is electricity.
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The world's first atom bomb, the Gadget, tested in 1945 in the New Mexican desert, had a fuel efficiency of less than 20 percent.
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Societies have appropriated pre-apocalyptic symbols (from Elvis to the Atom Bomb) in creative ways, and characters have at least the illusion of agency.
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Had we been born in the time of the atom bomb having the knowledge we do today, we could have met these problems with defiance.
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The theme is famous planes; the Concorde, Spirit of St Louis, Spruce Goose and Enola Gay (the plane that dropped the first atom bomb) 1.
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The explosion was roughly as big as the atom bomb detonated in 2013; even a failed detonation of an H-bomb would be more powerful.
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Just after the summit Barack Obama became the first sitting American president to visit Hiroshima, which an American atom bomb levelled on August 2403th 2240.
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Work is proceeding on a new nuclear reactor that would dramatically increase the North's ability to produce plutonium, a potent fuel for an atom bomb.
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That deal is aimed at keeping Tehran at least a year away from obtaining enough fissile material for an atom bomb if it sought one.
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That's the number of Soviet spies known to have infiltrated the Los Alamos laboratory in New Mexico, where the world's first atom bomb was built.
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Experts say its ultimate goal is to transform an ordinary atom bomb into a hydrogen bomb, which can raise its destructive force by 1,000 times.
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After a gong signaled a moment of silence and Francis lit a candle of peace, two survivors offered their testimony about the "demonic" atom bomb.
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It is the principle that underpinned the carpet bombing of cities in World War II. Not to mention America's use of the atom bomb against Japan.
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Barack Obama visited Hiroshima, the first president of the United States to go there since America dropped an atom bomb on the city in August 1945.
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At the core of an atom bomb, a device known as a neutron initiator — or sometimes a spark plug — creates the initial wave of speeding neutrons.
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And you know, we haven't even talked about diversity and MeToo and everything else, but it sort of hit the workplace like an atom bomb, essentially.
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" Her father was highly critical of her grandfather, recounting his "transgressions, his complicity in the secret military effort to develop chemical weapons and the atom bomb.
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Before the JCPOA, Iran was just a few months away from being able to make an atom bomb; that has been pushed back to a few years.
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Weapon designers can easily boost the destructive power of an atom bomb by putting at its core a small amount of tritium, a radioactive form of hydrogen.
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Their work ensured that the essential Congolese ore (as far as is known) never reached Nazi Germany; without it, the Germans could not build an atom bomb.
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For good reason did Andrey Krutskikh, a senior advisor to the Kremlin, liken Russia's latter-day information warfare capability to the testing of the Soviet atom bomb.
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In return, Iran agreed to restrictions on its nuclear activities, increasing the time it would need to produce an atom bomb if it chose to do so.
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In its 300 million or so years on this planet, its relatives have survived an asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs, an ice age and an atom bomb.
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It also resented being punished for developing nuclear weapons even as China, which tested its atom bomb just ten years before India, was welcomed into the nuclear club.
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And just this month, Ted Cruz set Danish media aflame when he suggested that Donald Trump was so unhinged he's liable to drop an atom bomb on Denmark.
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The F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, is running the most explosive counterintelligence case since Soviet spies stole the secrets of the atom bomb more than 70 years ago.
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A story of Cambridge spies, atom-bomb secrets and a passionate affair between a demure Brit and a dashing Commie should steam up the screen and pop your popcorn.
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Where the atom bomb and war in Vietnam were the crises to which The Omega Man and The Andromeda Strain responded, Outbreak, Contagion, and Flu work through different problems.
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Last fall, a pair of historians revealed that yet another Soviet spy, code named Godsend, had infiltrated the Los Alamos laboratory where the world's first atom bomb was built.
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Ever since the invention of the first atom bomb, the US government has been running data models and studying the effects of a possible nuclear attack on the United States.
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If they had, perhaps they would have paraphrased what Robert Oppenheimer said when he first saw his atom bomb in action: Now I am become dick pic, destroyer of worlds.
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To actually contend for MVP, though, not only do the Magic need Vucevic to chaperone them up the standings, but his counting stats need to feel like an atom bomb.
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Subsequent broadcasts by presidents seated behind the chief executive's desk dealt with D-Day, the atom bomb attack on Hiroshima, the Cuban missile crisis and the terror attacks of Sept.
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"I did a calculation ... the amount of heat we have put in the world's oceans in the past 25 years equals to 3.6 billion Hiroshima atom-bomb explosions," he added.
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Physics, you recall, gave us the atom bomb, and every person who becomes a physicist knows they might be called on to help create something that could fundamentally alter the world.
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The sight of a detonating atom bomb has lurked around the periphery of the show, wallpapering the office of FBI agent Gordon Cole (Lynch himself), but the image dominates episode 8.
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The Soviet Union develops the atom bomb and the Kalashnikov, while across Europe, starvation and destruction still reign, the mass graves so shallow that they putrefy the urban air come spring.
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Edward Teller, the theoretical physicist who helped bring us the atom bomb, thought we could create a new harbor in Alaska by exploding a series of nuclear bombs along the coastline.
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The film uses archival footage, animations, and brilliant aesthetics to tell the story, but what struck me were the drawings made by atom bomb survivors shown about halfway through the documentary.
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And why devote so much space to past threats — proposed atom bomb tests, hunting species to near extinction — and so little to how climate change threatens Native American communities right now?
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" Pondering these historical patterns, Theodor Adorno, a disenchanted Marxist, once quipped that "no universal history leads from savagery to humanitarianism, but there is one leading from the slingshot to the atom bomb.
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"This is a country that produced an atom bomb under the stress of wartime in three years from the day we decided to do it," he told a congressional panel last year.
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The threatening atom bomb casts a baleful shadow over the serious young people who inhabit "Guns of the Trees," the first feature made by the hugely influential filmmaker and activist Jonas Mekas.
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Meitner was also an advocate for the peaceful use of atomic energy and flatly refused to work on the Manhattan Project because she strongly opposed using fission to create an atom bomb.
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Vannevar Bush was the dean of engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a co-founder of Raytheon, and oversaw the government science programs that resulted in the atom bomb and electronic computer.
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The viewer is confronted with scenes of slaves in chains, packed together below deck; a polar bear shot to death; a whale sliced open for blubber, bleeding; icecaps melting; seaborne atom-bomb tests.
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Before the world's first nuclear weapons test, the scientists who created the atom bomb debated whether the explosion might be so powerful that it would ignite the atmosphere and destroy life on Earth.
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He grumbles about narrowly missing out on a "positive atom bomb", when Amazon recently shelved plans for a distribution centre, and 2,000 jobs, to be put on the old A.O. Smith factory site.
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"I worked with guys who had graduated from Yale and Harvard with engineering degrees and people who had worked on the Manhattan Project developing the atom bomb," Ms. Montague told The Democrat-Gazette.
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She spoke against the draft in Congress shortly after the beginning of World War II, and in her lectures and articles, she condemned the use of the atom bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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The exhibition, basically, is that noise, and early on comes an image of explosion: an oil painting called "Atom Bomb Hits New York City" by the science fiction illustrator Chesley Bonestell (1888-1986).
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The brothers said they were not pursuing exoneration for their father because while they claim he was framed for stealing information of the atom bomb, they do acknowledge that he was guilty of espionage.
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In the previous age, our worries resided in things like atom bomb: Our sudden and final erasure from the world, everyone gone in a flash of light as if we'd never even been here.
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Today, the New York Times reported that the economically hobbled dictatorship may have accidentally shown off its capability to convert an atom bomb into a hydrogen bomb with an online advertisement for Lithium 6.
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David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security, a Washington research group, said North Korea "may be bluffing" in making very large claims for what was actually a small atom bomb.
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Many nuclear experts, including Dr. Ford and Mr. Albright, suggested that the North Korean test might have involved putting a tiny amount of tritium, or heavy hydrogen, into the core of an atom bomb.
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Truman said he decided to use the atom bomb to end the war in order to save the "thousands and thousands" of American lives he predicted would be lost should the U.S. invade Japan.
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But what if there's an invention out there — something no scientist has thought of yet — that has catastrophic destructive power, on the scale of the atom bomb, but simpler and less expensive to make?
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Former President Jimmy Carter toured the atom bomb memorial in May 1984, about three years after he left office, and Nancy Pelosi visited in 2008 when she was speaker of the House of Representatives.
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But the truth is that our technical capacities arrive too soon; from the imperial galleon to the atom bomb, it is hard to argue that the tools have struggled to keep up with us .
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The agreement, signed in 2015 by Iran and six world powers, clumsily named the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), made it much harder for Iran to build an atom bomb, at least for a while.
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After early hesitation among analysts, a consensus has now emerged that it was the North's first successful test of a hydrogen weapon, with explosive force some 15 times greater than the atom bomb that leveled Hiroshima.
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Seifert's sin was to have raised questions about "Amoris Laetitia," the controversial papal exhortation on marriage, whose ambiguous statements on divorce and remarriage the philosopher described as a potential "theological atom bomb" for Catholic moral teaching.
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It's not your fault if you missed it, as I think essentially every person I spoke to all summer was unable to discuss this album without crying, because it is pretty much an anti-cynicism atom bomb.
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The last presidential decision to show up on the geologic record was the atom bomb: Testing the giant weapons has left a layer of cesium and plutonium on the planet's crust that will last for millions of years.
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The second moment is when another player—perhaps another member of their party—gets the drop on the driver outside the bunker, in open terrain where a car should no longer be the equivalent of the atom bomb.
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To reduce its vulnerability to airstrikes, Iran has built mazes of underground bunkers, tunnels and compounds to house many of its nuclear facilities — especially those involved in making nuclear fuel, the main hurdle to building an atom bomb.
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The highway is in a flat, wide-open area close to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, which is known as one of the sites of the Manhattan Project and where plutonium was produced to help build the atom bomb.
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Iran has retaliated by breaching the deal, resuming uranium enrichment seen in the West as a potential conduit to developing an atom bomb, but faces severe economic damage under intensified U.S. sanctions designed to strangle its vital oil trade.
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The deal's objective was to extend the time Iran would need to accumulate enough fissile material for an atom bomb, if it sought one - something sometimes referred to as "breakout time" to about a year from 2-3 months.
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The deal's objective was to extend the time Iran would need to accumulate enough fissile material for an atom bomb, if it sought one – something sometimes referred to as "breakout time" - to about a year from 2-3 months.
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Appropriately, he describes himself as a "nuclear archeologist," conducting interviews, sourcing documents from public archives, drawing measurements from photos, and even conducting test site digs on public land—all in service of creating an exact replica of the atom bomb.
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Over the 1970s burl-veneer Parsons writing desk in a corner of the living room is a melancholic tableau of black-and-white photographs featuring images of a dead bird, a burned piece of fabric and the atom bomb being detonated.
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But it caught the attention of intelligence agencies around the world for a simple reason: Lithium 6 offers a fast way to turn an ordinary atom bomb into a hydrogen bomb, magnifying its destructive power by up to 103,000 times.
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And quickly the enthusiasm for novelty and utility embedded in the medical breakthrough moved to other sciences too, generating and shaping news coverage for the x-ray, radium, flight, Einstein's ideas, the atom bomb, DNA, the genome, and all the rest.
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Under the nuclear deal, sanctions imposed by the United States, the European Union and United Nations were lifted in return for Iran agreeing long-term curbs on a nuclear program the West suspected was geared to developing an atom bomb.
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Because of its vulnerability, the last thing South Korea wants is a conflict, and the same is true of Japan, where memories of the atom bomb strikes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki have instilled a deep public antipathy toward any use of nuclear weapons.
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In addition to the delightfully sinister soundtrack of the in-game radio—check out "Atom Bomb Baby" for a flavor—Fallout 4 features a score that shifts with the player's actions, transforming the act of virtual exploration into an all-encompassing experience.
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Anthony Goldbloom of Kaggle, which runs data-science competitions that have resulted in promising academics being hired by firms, compares Google's pre-eminence in AI to the concentration of talented scientists who laboured on the Manhattan Project, which produced America's atom bomb.
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"Katrina hit us like an atom bomb in lower Plaquemines Parish," said Candida DuPlessis, 66, of Port Sulfur, who kept photos of her 30 grandchildren in a plastic container next to her cot in one of the shelters, a high school auditorium.
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When Mr. Thiel harked back to the great projects of the past, like building the atom bomb, creating the internet and landing a man on the moon, he was citing three of the most important United States government initiatives of the last century.
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China's leader, Mao Zedong, had once belittled the atom bomb as a "paper tiger," but after the Korean War and the first Taiwan Strait Crisis in the 1950s, he grew increasingly worried about the possible use of nuclear weapons by the United States.
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SINCE the Pilgrim Fathers wisely abandoned their "naive and nonsensical" socialist experiment, America had thrived on hard work, motivated by family, in a climate of freedom, lately defended by the atom bomb: "a marvellous gift that was given to our country by a wise God".
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The headlights serve as an overture to an episode that's every bit as momentous as the one with the atom bomb — except that this time, instead of the origin of our contemporary malaise, we witness the return of the man who may vanquish it.
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You might argue as vigorously for his essay collections, "Thank God for the Atom Bomb" (1988) and "The Boy Scout Handbook and Other Observations" (1982), in which he radiated curmudgeonly intelligence about everything from nude beaches and the Indianapolis 500 to George Orwell's radical honesty.
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The 3.67 percent limitation on uranium enrichment purity was one of many limits in the deal meant to keep Iran from gathering enough material to build an atom bomb in a year if it chose to (Iran has never officially said it wants a nuclear weapon).
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The company is named for Vannevar Bush, who is often credited with inventing an early form of the computer, putting together the Manhattan Project which led to the atom bomb, and for writing a seminal essay that sort of predicted the internet decades before its inception.
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IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano told Reuters in September he would welcome clarification from the powers on how the agency should monitor Iran's implementation of the so-called Section T of the nuclear pact that deals with certain technologies that could be used to develop an atom bomb.
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He'll conclude his week-long Asia trip with a visit to Hiroshima, Japan, a historic journey seven decades after the United States dropped an atom bomb on the city at the end of World War II. Obama will be the first sitting U.S. president to visit to site.
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Under the nuclear deal struck between Iran and six big powers in 2015, sanctions imposed by the United States, European Union and United Nations were lifted in return for Iran agreeing long-term curbs on a nuclear program the West suspected was geared to developing an atom bomb.
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When I made Trump Rally, I found myself focusing a lot on the crowd which led me to paint all sorts of brutal shit— American flags and monster faces, an atom bomb blowing up a skull, Cheetos being vomited, a black guy getting beat up by a white guy.
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Under the nuclear deal struck between Iran and six big powers in 2015, sanctions imposed by the United States, European Union and United Nations were lifted in return for Iran agreeing long-term curbs on a nuclear programme the West suspected was geared to developing an atom bomb.
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In 1963, Mr. Yaakov, a freshly minted colonel with engineering degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and from Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology, became the senior liaison officer between the Israel Defense Forces and the country's civilian defense units, including the project to make an atom bomb.
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In 1971, when the United States detonated an H-bomb deep beneath the Alaskan island of Amchitka, the colossal upheaval of earth that it caused was typical for a class of weapons whose destructive power is roughly a thousand times greater than the atom bomb that leveled Hiroshima in 1945.
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The action of the series takes place in 1962, just 25 years after the end of the war (in this reality, World War II ends in 1947, after a bloody American civil war between those who want to keep fighting the Nazis after they've dropped an atom bomb on Washington D.C., and those who don't).
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"I can't imagine they're not working on true thermonuclear weapons," said Siegfried S. Hecker, a Stanford professor who from 1986 to 1997 directed the Los Alamos weapons laboratory in New Mexico, the birthplace of the atom bomb, and whom the North Koreans in seeking recognition as a nuclear power have repeatedly let into their atomic facilities.
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And while an AI arms race, where the US closes itself off technologically and races to achieve AI before China does, might make sense if AI were like the atom bomb, it is deeply ill-advised for a technology with significant risks from human error — and significant gains to be had from cooperation, transparency, and civilian rather than military control.
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In the 1970s he worked at the Los Alamos weapons lab in New Mexico, where J. Robert Oppenheimer had presided over the birth of the atom bomb during World War II. One of Oppenheimer's rivals, Edward Teller, had lobbied for the hydrogen bomb — roughly a thousand times more powerful — and had clashed bitterly with Dr. Oppenheimer over his initial opposition to the H-bomb's development.
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" Things get particularly violent between the couple in "Atom Bomb," the fastest rager from A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings, Beach Slang's prompt follow-up to last year's cult-sparking debut, The Things We Do to Find People Who Feel Like Us. The two lovers rapidly flash between smashing vases and sloppy hookups, and it's all shot in Beach Slang's signature vintage 8mm style, an appropriate visual companion to their last video for "Punks in a Disco Bar.
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He embraced – and at times seemed to revel in – the darkest understanding of what it meant to be mortal, as in these words by Edgar Allan Poe, which come at the end of his short story, "The Premature Burial": "There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad Humanity may assume the semblance of a Hell…" For Conner, death and hell were not abstractions but physical states; in the late 29s, in the aftermath of the Holocaust and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, amid the tensions of the Cold War and the nuclear arms race between the USSR and the United States, he felt as if they were all around him, that he was just a step away from being consumed by the fires of Hell (the atom bomb).
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