It was unclear whether they were explosions or controlled detonations.
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Detonations of dripping colors; dirty bedsheets hung up to dry.
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But what if some good came out of those nuclear detonations?
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McPhee has built a career on such small detonations of knowledge.
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"There were reportedly three detonations on board the ship," the agency said.
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The scientists couldn't say conclusively that the results were caused by detonations.
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Nukemap uses declassified information to illustrate the various consequences of those detonations.
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The idea was tested 10 times in underground detonations, with mixed results.
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Turkey has signed two treaties that ban all nuclear detonations for any purpose.
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Space detonations come with their own risks, including a more widespread electromagnetic pulse.
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Hidden inside is red bean paste, punctuated with whole beans like tiny sugared detonations.
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For years, the tension continued, sometimes in quiet stretches, lately in a series of detonations.
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Four more detonations followed during the Obama Administration, to be met with "strategic patience," a.k.a.
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The NPR could certainly change if major events occur, such as war or nuclear detonations.
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At other times, regional newspapers have reported accounts of soldiers being treated for exposure following detonations.
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A state in which otherwise slight shifts in behaviors or patterns are experienced as near-detonations.
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The support was welcome, however, because nuke detonations are meant to be a large-scale affair.
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Hankins said that in June 26 alone the kill switch prevented about 25 million ransomware detonations.
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Hankins told TechCrunch that there were 60 million attempted "detonations" of the WannaCry ransomware in June alone.
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Detonations of thunder blended with the shuddering of the Ostermans' house, creating a kind of continuous roar.
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This is an action-packed montage of clips of freeway killers, airplane terrorists and A-bomb detonations.
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To curb radiation hazards, it prohibited all test detonations of nuclear arms except for those conducted underground.
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An EPRI study in February calculated that E3 from multiple detonations was unlikely to cause mass transformer failure.
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The pathways of these terrorists carrying these weapons originated well before the time and space of their detonations.
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This suggests that Earth was bombarded with radiation from stellar detonations during those eras, according to the researchers.
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Defensively, DOD conducts underground nuclear tests to expose every U.S. weapons system — conventional and nuclear — to nuclear detonations.
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"In the last eight months, you haven&apost seen missile launches, you haven&apost seen nuclear detonations," Sanders added.
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The detonations struck in the run-up to the busy Christmas holiday, when many Mexicans stock up on fireworks.
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The plants look like river deltas, like plumes of smoke, like controlled detonations, like lightning bolts scything through darkness.
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It undulates and glistens like the weird alien biomass in Annihilation, with detonations of 808 bass resounding in the deep.
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It was punctuated by tangible military advances by North Korea with detonations of nuclear devices and launches of ballistic missiles.
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"We are looking at 100 kiloton to 1,000 kiloton detonations," FEMA chemical and nuclear branch chief Luis Garcia told BuzzFeed.
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The early signatures were familiar to the Neána, and faintly worrying: nuclear fission detonations, followed seven years later by fusion explosions.
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Some B-8 pilots were killed by premature detonations including future-President John F. Kennedy's older brother, Navy Lt. Joseph Kennedy.
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This Santa Fe case shows that suspicious purchases or behavior (such as detonations) must also be monitored by schools and communities.
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They were men like Frank Farmer, who witnessed 210 atomic detonations in 236 while stationed on a ship in the Pacific.
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Useful "nanodiamonds" can be fabricated with explosive detonations, but the SLAC lab experiment may foreshadow a more advanced diamond-making technique.
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In January, back-to-back detonations claimed by the Islamic State's local affiliate killed at least 20 people in the Philippines.
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Going into season four, turning little details into detonations is still the series's major strength — there's no show that does it better.
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Once that happens, it can begin the calculations it was purpose-built to carry out: simulations of nuclear weapons launches and detonations.
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A fire service spokesman was unable to confirm what caused the blasts, but multiple witnesses told ABC News they heard two detonations.
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Some satellite and seismic data indicates that it recently imploded as a result of increasingly powerful detonations, and has been rendered unusable.
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But after three detonations of the "nuclear option" to reduce debate time, the Senate is no closer to ending "obstructionism" than before.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is updating emergency management plans to include plans for potential nuclear detonations in 85033 U.S. cities.
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Youba Cisse, a trader in Timbuktu, told Reuters he heard at least three loud detonations coming from the direction of the camp.
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These stellar detonations are among the brightest events in the observable universe, enabling thousands of them to be discovered and studied by astronomers.
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Meteor impacts, nuclear detonations, Ice Ages, earthquakes: The memories of them all are imprinted in the muck at the bottom of the ocean.
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Combat units mortared Islamic State positions in a western outskirt on Sunday afternoon as the thunder of controlled detonations echoed across the city.
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"Nuclear detonations, that was the defining point in my life," Douglas Hern, a British soldier who experienced five nuclear bomb tests, told Motherboard.
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Operation Hardtack I took place in 1958, and included more nuclear detonations (35) than had ever been unleashed in the Pacific Ocean before.
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The weapons tests, however, do not violate the tacit agreement between Kim and Trump, which only covered long-range missiles and nuclear detonations.
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How that does and doesn't change our view of them is the first of several detonations set off by this booby-trapped comedy.
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I was about 11 years old and they were doing some high-altitude detonations up in outer space, in the Pacific, over Johnson Island.
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"We are looking at 3003 kiloton to 2300,26 kiloton detonations," chief of FEMA's chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear branch Luis Garcia told BuzzFeed News.
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Two enormous eruptions over Bikini in 1946, named Operation Crossroads, were the first nuclear detonations since the bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945.
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The persistent radiation from the tests conducted by the United States and the Soviet Union continued to do extensive damage long after the detonations.
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If he goes back to long-range missile tests or nuclear detonations, the prospect of a horrific war on the peninsula could quickly return.
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In my time with it, I've already had to server hop several times to avoid nuclear detonations near an area I was questing in.
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Gregory S. Jones, a scientist at the RAND Corporation, said the North might have already used bits of thermonuclear fuel in its 2016 detonations.
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Within days of the August 1972 incident, U.S. military officials began to wonder if solar activity might have been responsible for the unanticipated mine detonations.
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As the detonations continued, our explosive ordnance disposal technicians cleared paths to safety, avoiding patches of disturbed earth and checking the rest with metal detectors.
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The final stretch of road to Tal Afar was lonesome and scorched, cut by underground detonations at every culvert, the fields all around burned and black.
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The total counts vary a bit whether you tally the number of tests or detonations, since sometimes multiple bombs were set off during the same test.
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Using Quantico as a reference point, I'm going to call one nuclear bomb getting detonated by a lovable loser the baseline acceptable amount of nuclear detonations.
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Police reportedly say people mistook the sounds for gunfire or detonations, and there was a brief stampede before Disneyland officials and law enforcement got things under control.
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The Bering Sea meteor was initially detected by US Air Force satellites, as well as decades-old infrasound stations that are designed to flag potential nuclear detonations.
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While Beijing often criticizes the North for its missile tests and nuclear detonations, it keeps the isolated country's economy alive with exports of energy, mainly crude oil.
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The Russian military could respond in kind if troops noted a loss of communication with Putin and it confirmed nuclear detonations elsewhere in the country, Podvig added.
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Explosives were inserted in shafts 300 to 1,600 feet below the ground and their detonations caused the Earth's surface to sink from the void created by liquefied rock.
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Where NukeMap gives experts multiple ways to dial in different versions of a virtual apocalypse, the Outrider interactive is aimed at personalizing nuclear detonations for a lay audience.
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Dallas police chief David Brown said police found bomb-making materials at the shooter's home that suggested he had been practicing detonations and had "other plans" for violence.
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Bigger stars are capable of the intense pressures needed to make silicon, magnesium, nickel and iron before exploding in ferocious supernova detonations that can make even heavier stuff.
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After considerable trial and error (resulting in multiple accidental detonations with casualties), Nobel found the solution while transporting nitroglycerin to a new lab facility in the mid-1860s.
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From the gap in the ceiling came the faraway engines of airplanes, and he waited for the detonations of the cluster bombs somewhere west or north of them.
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Even if Punggye-ri is not yet leaking radiation, a series of earthquakes following detonations there seems to have weakened Mount Mantap, which lies directly over the test chamber.
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The police chief said that a search of Johnson's home revealedevidence of bomb-making materials and a journal that indicated the shooter had undertaken practice detonations, Brown told CNN.
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He said police found bomb-making materials and a journal at the shooter's home that suggested he'd been practicing detonations and appeared ready to take aim at larger targets.
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There was some logic to this: America's most vital satellites are those which watch for missile launches, detect nuclear detonations and pass orders from the president to nuclear forces.
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A drummer renowned for his muscle sounds downright modest compared to Brötzmann's corrosive sax and Sharrock's abrasive guitar, but Baker's hard-hitting detonations keep this improv grounded on Earth.
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No one injured The mall also said initial reports of pipe bombs, IEDs, explosions or detonations and reports of dangerous materials found during searches at the facility were incorrect.
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The bombing, consisting of two detonations, struck the Cathedral of Our Lady of Mount Carmel on the southern island of Jolo, where the government has long fought Muslim insurgents.
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The bombing, consisting of two detonations, struck the Cathedral of Our Lady of Mount Carmel on the southern island of Jolo, where the government has long fought Muslim insurgents.
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Built-in safeguards prevented nuclear detonations, but explosives surrounding the radioactive cores blasted a fine dust of plutonium over a patchwork of houses and fields full of ripe, red tomatoes.
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US officials have also confirmed that imagery shows technical equipment was removed from the tunnel complex prior to the detonations, indicating the North Koreans were keeping gear for potential reuse.
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Two dozen international journalists were invited to witness explosives rigged inside the tunnels, and they were then escorted outside to viewing decks 500 yards away, where they filmed the detonations.
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When molten material meets the groundwater cycling through the volcano's uppermost segments, powerful explosions can happen without warning, much like the lethal detonations that recently rocked New Zealand's White Island.
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"Only a few countries, including the U.S. and Russia, have conducted hydrogen bomb tests, and the size of the detonations reached 219 to 2000 megatons," a South Korean military official said.
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One displays a colored tile with the name and date of a nuclear explosion, while a second screen displays a supercut of the Aikido sparring that's coordinated to mirror those detonations.
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Ultimately, each side accumulated more than 33,000 warheads (even though the detonations of just 100 weapons would have sparked a severe global famine and stripped away significant protections against ultraviolet radiation).
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That report, "Long-Term Worldwide Effects of Multiple Nuclear Weapons Detonations," married the logic of nuclear deterrence to the logic of environmental protection, or what might have been called pollution deterrence.
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But it's far from a moment of terror — instead the confetti-splattered kaboom functions as a tool of connection: characters flock to the gift-wrapped detonations and ask to join in.
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Rosenfeld, who told investigators he acted alone, had been planning his mission since at least August and had already conducted test detonations of smaller devices using black powder, the complaint said.
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"You feel the heat blast from it," said Frank Farmer, who witnessed 18 atomic detonations in 1958 while stationed on a ship in the Pacific, according to a Times report last year.
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Splicing together thirty-seven minutes of declassified footage of detonations at Bikini Atoll, Conner unspools a horrific beauty, at once disembodied and visceral, setting us on a soul-searching mission ourselves. ♦
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This is a game that makes the act of killing someone—disturbingly common and unremarkable in many games—a weapon of mass destruction, as unattended bodies can cause "voidouts," essentially nuclear detonations.
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This may be one of the clearest indications that at least portions of the tunnel complex remain usable, something the US had suspected since the North Koreans allowed media to view the detonations.
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Shortly after the deal was reached, Iran allowed inspectors to check its Parchin military complex, where Western security services believe Tehran carried out tests relevant to nuclear bomb detonations more than a decade ago.
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The overture was vague but widely interpreted as a signal that North Korea is willing to behave — no missile tests, nuclear detonations, or assassinations — if its athletes are allowed to compete at the games.
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If armed conflict broke out tomorrow, the advancing Russian armor, mobilized infantry, artillery, and tactical aircraft would be preceded by dozens of low-yield nuclear detonations, killing everything, but leaving roads and bridges intact.
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There was some logic to this: among America's most vital space assets are the satellites which look for signs of missile launches, detect nuclear detonations and pass orders from the president to nuclear forces.
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If armed conflict broke out tomorrow, the advancing Russian armor, mobilized troops, artillery, and tactical aircraft would be preceded by dozens of low-yield nuclear detonations, killing everything but leaving roads and bridges intact.
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Colonel Sonny Leggett, a spokesman for U.S. forces in Afghanistan, said on Monday most of these killed were struck by the gunfire of militants or from detonations of their explosives caches or suicide vests.
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The latest test, according to South Korean officials, produced a more powerful explosive yield than the North's previous detonations, indicating that the country was making progress in its efforts to build a functional nuclear warhead.
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America and the Soviet Union launched a series of nuclear test detonations in 22010; in 21953 and 21947, Pat Frank, Walter M. Miller, Mordecai Roshwold, and Alfred Coppel published their bleak visions of world war three.
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A series of bombings like the ones that took place over the weekend requires a massive logistical lift — bomb-making workshops, handlers to keep bombers committed, and an extensive planning network to keep the detonations coordinated.
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The big picture: North Korea may not be serious about completing a verifiable, permanent, and irreversible denuclearization; North Koreans removed technical equipment from the site before the detonations, indicating they may be interested in using it later.
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Because these self-detonations are extremely luminous, astronomers often spot them out in the cosmic wilds, but it is difficult to get a closer, more detailed glimpse of supernovas located thousands, or even millions, of light years away.
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And because GPS satellites also house America's detection system for nuclear detonations, we rely on them to tell us if North Korea launches a nuclear weapon, and to tell our missiles and bombs where to find their targets.
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On the ground, custom rigging enabled how-the-hell-did-he-do-that tracking shots, wending in and out of bayonet stabbings, horse deaths, and chains of detonations to capture all the hysteria in these orgies of brutality.
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"By looking at these films we found a lot of different pieces of information had not been analyzed back in the 1950s, and we&aposre discovering new things about these detonations that have never been seen before," Spriggs said.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Amid concerns over North Korea, federal emergency managers are updating disaster plans to account for large nuclear detonations over the 210 largest US cities, according to a US Federal Emergency Management Agency official.
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Over the next decade, Pyongyang reported a series of additional detonations, while ramping up its ability to launch an intercontinental ballistic missile -- a development that, in theory, could put the distant US and European cities in its nuclear crosshairs.
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To get around these limitations, Nielsen's team based their estimates on radiocarbon of the specimens' eye lenses, and used the "bomb pulse onset," generated by nuclear detonations during the mid-20th century, as a timestamp to approximate their ages.
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Instead, Schmidt and Frank propose searching for more subtle signals, such as byproducts of fossil fuel consumption, mass extinction events, plastic pollution, synthetic materials, disrupted sedimentation from agricultural development or deforestation, and radioactive isotopes potentially caused by nuclear detonations.
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By the time the boom reached us they were both on the ground and a plume of smoke had obscured one; at first, I thought the first to land had tipped over and blown up in a staccato series of detonations.
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That group set off powerful explosives at the Athens appeals court a year ago and at the offices of the Federation of Greek Industries in 2015; in both cases, the detonations were preceded by warning calls, so there were no casualties.
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The attack, consisting of two detonations, struck the Cathedral of Our Lady of Mount Carmel on the island of Jolo at the southern end of the Philippines, a region where Muslim insurgents have for decades battled the Catholic-majority state.
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Even if North Korea freezes nuclear detonations and missile tests during such talks - as South Korea has said Pyongyang offered to do - there is plenty of other technical work it could pursue while diplomatic efforts are under way, they say.
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But the question now, after a series of successful missile tests, is whether Mr. Kim will decide it is time to negotiate a "freeze" on further detonations and launches — or whether he should just keep going on his current path.
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The authorities in Alcanar carried out controlled explosions Saturday morning — "If you hear detonations DO NOT be alarmed," the Catalan police said on Twitter — because of concerns that there might still be more explosives and gas canisters in the rubble.
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There has been a lot of analysis about what that war would look like from nuclear detonations to EMPs (electromagnetic pulses), to over 8,000 artillery pieces that target over 25 million residents in Seoul (which is over half the entire country's population).
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In 2015, the Commerce Department moved to add China's National University of Defense and Technology to the entity list, to cut it off from using Intel chips in supercomputers that the United States government said were being used to model nuclear detonations.
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Given how much more we rely on electronic infrastructure on Earth and in space compared to the 1970s, such a storm would have the potential to wipe out power and communications on a massive scale, and create unpredictable havoc similar to the 1972 mine detonations.
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Pete Townshend of the Who set off countless controlled detonations in his songs — trilling, jabbing rapidly, bending notes, scraping his strings, flinging and windmilling a dozen kinds of power chords — while Roger Daltrey swung his microphone on its cord and flaunted his lung power.
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"My team tracks the location of every one of the detonations, and the trend we have documented was a direct correlation between casualties from exploded ordnance and areas where the heaviest ground fighting happened," said Danielle Bell, the director of the human rights unit at Unama.
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Residents of Jilin province, which abuts North Korea and Russia, had a jostling reminder of the dangers of nuclear detonations in early September, when the province was physically shaken by an earthquake set off by what North Korea described as a successful test of a hydrogen bomb.
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Oranienburg, a town north of Berlin heavily targeted because it housed the Nazi nuclear-weapons programme, has thus become the first municipality in Germany to search actively for unexploded ordnance—scanning risky patches of earth for magnetic resonances and cutting the speed limits of the buses travelling through them to reduce the risk of detonations.
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"After three days or so, [depending] on the size and number of the blasts, but three days is a good rule of thumb for single detonations of modern warhead sizes—the outside radiation will have likely subsided to a degree that you can flee the area without putting yourself too much at risk," Wellerstein said.
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The one that my grandfather was present for was Operation Dominic, where they had all these soldiers sit on the beach and put their backs to where the bomb was gonna detonate, and I think it was about a hundred detonations he was present for, and he said he could feel the shockwaves roll through his body.
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Mantap has now sustained six such detonations, with the last of which — set off on September 3, 2017 — moving the mountain more than 11 feet (3.5 meters), according to researchers who used space imaging technology, called synthetic aperture radar, or SAR, to map how much Mantap's surface shifted and then settled back down during the blast.
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As explained in details by Steen Hartov in an article published by Flightgear On-line (one of the most famous websites among flight helmets collectors and one of my personal favorites on this topic for years), nuclear detonations would cause "Flash blindness" making extremely difficult, if not impossible, for a pilot, to handle the aircraft for some time.
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Under the cover that radioactive detonations provided, the CIA operated an air strip, "5000 feet by 100 feet," carved out of the Atomic Energy Commission test facility near Groom Lake and called "Watertown," in a nod to the hellish upstate New York hometown of the Dulles brothers—Allen, then the CIA director, and John Foster, the secretary of state.
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The agency's current "nuclear detonation" guidance for emergency planners, first released in 2000, had looked at 1 to 10 kiloton blasts — smaller than the 1945 Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs that killed more than 200,000 people at the end of World War II. Those smaller size detonations had seemed more reasonable after 9/63, with high concerns about an improvised terrorist bomb.
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After time spent with Mr. Ukai's detonations of detail, you may be in need of retinal relief, and you'll find it in the show's scattering of abstract art: in biomorphic pastels by Julian Martin (at Fleisher/Ollman, Philadelphia); in tantric paintings from western India (Galerie Hervé Perdriolle, Paris); and in sewn canvases by Sidival Fila (James Barron Art, Kent, Conn.) With Mr. Fila's work, outsider shades into the less dramatic category of self-taught work.
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