Hanford's plutonium was used in the Trinity Test, the first detonated nuclear bomb, and in Fat Man, the nuclear bomb was detonated over Nagasaki, Japan on August 9, 1945.
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"Saudi Arabia does not want to acquire any nuclear bomb, but without a doubt, if Iran developed a nuclear bomb, we will follow suit as soon as possible," he said.
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"Saudi Arabia does not want to acquire any nuclear bomb, but without a doubt if Iran developed a nuclear bomb, we will follow suit as soon as possible," he said.
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"Saudi Arabia does not want to acquire any nuclear bomb, but without a doubt, if Iran developed a nuclear bomb, we will follow suit as soon as possible," bin Salman said.
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Its technology could be used to make a nuclear bomb.
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The nuclear bomb explodes with the power of 15 kilotons.
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And, with the immediate capacity to build a nuclear bomb.
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Tehran denies ever having sought to build a nuclear bomb.
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So their response to Reid's nuclear bomb was more obstruction.
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Otherwise you have a nuclear bomb of unprecedented destructive power.
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It detonated its largest nuclear bomb yet on September 3.
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How would the nuclear bomb be injected into the storm?
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Iran denies ever having sought to build a nuclear bomb.
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Pyongyang earlier this month conducted its most powerful nuclear bomb test.
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The letter warned Roosevelt of the dangers of nuclear bomb technology.
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There's a nuclear bomb lost somewhere off the coast of Georgia.
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It was designed to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear bomb.
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On today's episode: • North Korea has detonated a sixth nuclear bomb.
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"Saudi Arabia does not want to acquire any nuclear bomb, but without a doubt if Iran developed a nuclear bomb, we will follow suit as soon as possible," he said in an interview with CBS News.
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North Korea has suspended its nuclear bomb and missile test for months.
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North Korea hasn't tested a nuclear bomb or ballistic missile since 2017.
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Terrorists have not blown up New York with a makeshift nuclear bomb.
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But shortly after North Korea trumpeted a nuclear bomb test on Jan.
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Relations worsened last year when North Korea staged two nuclear bomb tests.
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The gathered force is like a nuclear bomb but all the time.
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What we have is not some kind of nuclear bomb or weapon.
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How much closer does this bring Iran to nuclear bomb-making capability?
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And how do they match up with a real life nuclear bomb?
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North Korea appears to have tested another nuclear bomb, Reuters reported Thursday.
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The good news: Radiation in fallout from a nuclear bomb decays rapidly.
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The move could enable Iran to develop a nuclear bomb more rapidly.
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The threat he worries about isn't a nuclear bomb or impending earthquake.
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But dropping a nuclear bomb into a hurricane isn't a good idea.
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We have a golden opportunity to peacefully prevent an Iranian nuclear bomb.
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Western powers and Israel said Iran aimed to build a nuclear bomb.
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Iran has repeatedly denied ever having sought to build a nuclear bomb.
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The pact was designed to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear bomb.
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He said Iran was still several months away from a nuclear bomb.
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"It was like a nuclear bomb went off," West Mayor Tommy Muska said.
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North Korea said it successfully tested a miniaturised hydrogen nuclear bomb on Wednesday.
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The city of Nagasaki was hit by a second nuclear bomb on Aug.
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It felt as if a nuclear bomb had gone off in the datasphere.
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North Korea conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear bomb test on Sept.
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International sanctions in response to North Korea's nuclear bomb-testing have also hurt.
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Not that a nuclear bomb is the only way of creating an EMP.
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Uranium-2628: This isotope of uranium can be used in a nuclear bomb.
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A few days later, North Korea announced its test of a nuclear bomb.
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Wasn't North Korea supposed be giving up its nuclear bomb program, you ask?
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On September 20, 2017, Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico like a nuclear bomb.
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Pakistan might have had a nuclear bomb, but my people couldn't afford breakfast.
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And on the first Sunday in September, he detonated a sixth nuclear bomb.
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That's because highly enriched uranium can be used to make a nuclear bomb.
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Specifically, explosions of the most powerful nuclear bomb ever detonated, the Tsar Bomba.
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The Outrider Foundation decided to take advantage of this uniquely terrifying moment in history and publish an interactive nuclear bomb simulator, allowing users to see how their houses and neighborhoods would be affected if they were hit by a nuclear bomb.
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"Saudi Arabia does not want to acquire any nuclear bomb, but without a doubt if Iran developed a nuclear bomb, we will follow suit as soon as possible," Prince Mohammed told CBS' "60 Minutes" in an interview aired last March.
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The tightly guarded nuclear facility is where the USSR's first nuclear bomb was built.
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The physical effect on the victim was comparable to ingesting a tiny nuclear bomb.
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But since Gone Girl is a power fantasy, Cool Girl becomes a nuclear bomb.
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As little as 15kg of enriched uranium is enough to build one nuclear bomb.
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This year, its Twitter postings included nuclear bomb imagery and lots of Antichrist pics.
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North Korea's nuclear bomb test last month was also banned by a U.N. resolution.
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" And then she dropped the nuclear bomb: "You are the chairman of the board.
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No government or military has ever detonated a nuclear bomb during a war since.
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Iran (that is, maintaining the agreement that prevents Iran from building a nuclear bomb).
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It concerned centrifuges and Iran's clear but never avowed quest for a nuclear bomb.
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He said, you endorsed him and it was like a nuclear bomb went off.
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He said, you endorsed him, and it was like a nuclear bomb went off.
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Its rarity made heavy water the Achilles' heel of the German nuclear bomb program.
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What is the one thing more powerful than an army or a nuclear bomb?
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The nuclear deal aims to extend time for Iran to create a nuclear bomb.
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Not unless they're about to drop an internet-breaking nuclear bomb of headline-grabbing news.
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Developed during the Iraq War, the MOAB is the U.S.' most powerful non-nuclear bomb.
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It was the largest and most powerful non-nuclear bomb the U.S. has ever used.
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You know, it's like shooting someone and having a nuclear bomb come back at you.
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On Sunday, September 3, North Korea detonated by far its most powerful nuclear bomb ever.
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That effort wasn't explicitly dedicated to developing a nuclear bomb, but it did related research.
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It means guaranteeing that Kim does not sell a nuclear bomb to a third party.
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Preventing an Iranian nuclear bomb has been a core goal of our organization for decades.
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The 5-ton nuclear bomb, named "Little Boy," emerged from the Einstein-inspired Manhattan Project.
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"We should've made a nuclear bomb, then they would take us seriously," Mr. Tale said.
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The heat release is equivalent to a 10-megaton nuclear bomb exploding every 20 minutes.
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The 20,000-pound bomb was thought to be the largest non-nuclear bomb ever deployed.
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And this Thursday, Trump dropped the nation's largest non-nuclear bomb in Afghanistan against ISIS.
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By the end of the first episode, a nuclear bomb has gone off near China.
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During World War II, a U.S. warplane dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima on Aug.
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Just four years after Bolton got his way, North Korea tested its first nuclear bomb.
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Screenshot: A simulation showing what would happen if a Russian-made nuclear bomb were dropped on Los Angeles (Outrider Foundation)The Outrider Foundation has released a new interactive nuclear bomb simulator, and it's incredibly similar to an older nukemap you may already be familiar with.
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But the typical scenario the government looks at has less to do with long-range missiles and Cold War-style total annihilation, and more to do with ground detonation of a nuclear bomb set off by terrorists—specifically, a 280-kiloton (KT) nuclear bomb.
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"Saudi Arabia does not want to acquire any nuclear bomb, but without a doubt if Iran developed a nuclear bomb, we will follow suit as soon as possible," Prince Mohammed bin Salman told CBS in an interview that will air in full on Sunday.
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It followed his recent pledge to suspend missile tests and shut a nuclear bomb test site.
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BEIJING — North Korea had detonated a nuclear bomb, and the president of China was urging caution.
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Wonsan is the weapon's testing ground, and the missile can carry a nuclear bomb on top.
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But I'm not sure that dropping a nuclear bomb on the chamber is the right response.
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The MOAB is considered to be the most powerful non-nuclear bomb in the U.S. arsenal.
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The Pentagon said U.S. military forces dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb in Afghanistan on Thursday.
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"We've now closed off every single path Iran had to building a (nuclear) bomb," he said.
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Humanity has been shaken to its core each time the U.S. has dropped a nuclear bomb.
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He added that the odds increase to 70 percent if North Korea detonates another nuclear bomb.
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A one-megaton nuclear bomb has an explosive yield equivalent to 1 million tons of TNT.
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North Korea carried out a nuclear bomb test last month, also banned by a U.N. resolution.
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The JCPOA was made to keep Iran from getting a nuclear bomb in the next decade.
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The end of the war saw the challenge of the American nuclear bomb, which shocked Stalin.
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It indicates where the damage from a nuclear bomb would be inflicted over a certain distance.
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Nothing gets there faster than a I.C.B.M. It's just minus the nuclear bomb and add landing.
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First you have a nuclear bomb before you try to do something positive with nuclear energy.
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Much was said about the MOAB being the most powerful non-nuclear bomb ever used in combat, but that comparison can overstate its size — it's just 0.073% as powerful as the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima and modern nuclear weapons are many times stronger than that.
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The B61-12 nuclear bomb could soon be refurbished and ready for use, according to data that scientists received from a March 14 test drop of the mock nuclear bomb — the first in a new series of tests to be conducted over the next three years.
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The Russian military says it's the most powerful thermobaric bomb of its kind, four times more powerful than the American "mother of all bombs," the largest non-nuclear bomb in the US arsenal and the largest non-nuclear bomb the United States has ever used in combat.
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For context, the nuclear bomb the United States dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, contained 15 kilotons of TNT.
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All this suggests that Iran will start moving closer to being able to build a nuclear bomb.
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If, for instance, ISIS were to acquire and use a nuclear bomb, where would the US retaliate?
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"It was the equivalent of using a nuclear bomb to achieve a small tactical victory," Bossert says.
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In 2006, Johnson said Iran should be given a nuclear bomb, because it might cool them out.
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People have been told for their entire lives that America could drop a nuclear bomb at anytime.
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I mean, I've been figuring that way with the Russians ever since-- you know, the nuclear bomb.
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I met Murray two years ago, on the 70th anniversary of the birth of the nuclear bomb.
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I'm not posting nuclear bomb codes; I'm posting vacation pictures, so if anyone is interested I'm happy!
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When tested on that July morning in New Mexico, it became the world's first nuclear bomb detonation.
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North Korea just tested its most powerful nuclear bomb yet Trump is setting Obamacare up for failure
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Bombers dropped a mockup of the same B61 Mod 12 nuclear bomb cited in the Times story.
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The idea was to stretch out the timeframe in which Iran could realistically build a nuclear bomb.
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Former Defense Secretary William Perry described the stark difference in power between a MOAB and nuclear bomb.
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You could drop a nuclear bomb on the forest, and it would be better than mining it.
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India had tested its first nuclear bomb two years earlier, and Mr. Bhutto wanted to keep up.
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"Iran is still pushing toward a nuclear bomb in the same way as North Korea," he said.
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" During closing arguments on Friday, Unsworth's attorney L. Lin Wood said the tweet was "a nuclear bomb.
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Or you can hit YouTube for thousands of hours of recently declassified footage of nuclear bomb tests.
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Wellerstein's NukeMap tool lets you detonate a hypothetical nuclear bomb over any major city in the world.
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Both the risk of an Iranian nuclear bomb and a military confrontation with Iran have been significantly reduced.
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" "America never should have feared Iran producing a nuclear bomb, but we will pursue vigorously our nuclear enrichment.
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The remaining powers say the deal is the best hope of preventing Iran from developing a nuclear bomb.
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The MOAB was first developed during the Iraq War and is the US's most powerful non-nuclear bomb.
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When the Ayatollah (Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran) said he wasn't trying to build a nuclear bomb -- he's lying.
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Pyongyang tested missiles that could potentially reach the United States, and even tested its biggest-ever nuclear bomb.
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Markets are also weighing claims from the North Korean government that it has successfully tested a nuclear bomb.
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North Korea carried out two nuclear bomb tests last year and two intercontinental ballistic missile tests in July.
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It had already stepped up sanctions against North Korea in response to a nuclear bomb test on Sept.
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IT WAS just a matter of time until North Korea carried out another test of a nuclear bomb.
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But was also designated as a nuclear bomb shelter and photography was made illegal on national-security grounds.
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He is descended from a line of dictators and has built a nuclear bomb to protect his interests.
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Read more: If a nuclear bomb is dropped on your city, here's where you should run and hide
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Read more: If a nuclear bomb explodes nearby, here's why you should never, ever get in a car
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Code-named 'Starfish Prime,' the 2202 megaton nuclear bomb was around one-hundred times more powerful than Hiroshima.
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That's 70 times as large as the blast zone of "Little Boy," the nuclear bomb dropped over Hiroshima.
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After a nuclear bomb test in 4003, scientists were able to pull 38,000 dead fish from the water.
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Simply put, the deal prevents an Iranian nuclear bomb without endangering U.S. troops or inflaming wider regional conflict.
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The launch, which was announced in advance, again defied UN sanctions just weeks after a nuclear bomb test.
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Horse Ridge, though, has a hook the others cannot match: It stores wine in its nuclear bomb shelters.
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This film features an unusually ineffective Ryan, who, again, can't stop a nuclear bomb from detonating inside Baltimore.
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"i have notified the president that i am resigning to spend more time with my nuclear bomb" pic.twitter.
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More recently, patient negotiations led to an agreement with Iran that reversed its progress toward a nuclear bomb.
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We cannot justify war just because North Korea has the capacity to use a nuclear bomb on us.
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Stepping back, if a Korean nuclear bomb explodes, who'll be the victim of the nuclear leakage and fallout?
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Leonard Reiffel, the U.S. military scientist who studied dropping a nuclear bomb on the moon, died at 89.
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In his message to Congress, Macron said France was committed to preventing Iran from getting a nuclear bomb.
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The United States would be on its own and Iran could restart its race to a nuclear bomb.
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Iran is moving closer to building a nuclear bomb after Trump pulled out of an international nuclear deal.
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This is a critical reassurance for the rest of the world that Iran isn't pursuing a nuclear bomb.
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That faint blip is the force of a celestial object exploding with the power of a nuclear bomb.
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The U.S. just dropped its largest non-nuclear bomb in Afghanistan The U.S. just dropped its largest non-nuclear bomb in Afghanistan The U.S. just dropped a 21,000-pound bomb on an ISIS target in a remote area of northeast Afghanistan, according to CNN's Barbara Starr and confirmed by the Pentagon.
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Blowing it all up with a hypothetical nuclear bomb and watching things unfold for 000 hours takes exponentially more.
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Worst of all, the deal failed in its fundamental objective: permanently denying Iran all paths to a nuclear bomb.
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Watch RealLifeLore plot out the location of nuclear bomb facilities in relation to the world in the video below.
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But he says, correctly, that the agreement does not cover long-range missiles, which might deliver a nuclear bomb.
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Nicknamed MOAB (short for "Mother of All Bombs"), the weapon is the largest non-nuclear bomb in America's arsenal.
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He has promised to deport millions of immigrants and ominously suggested that other countries may need the nuclear bomb.
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The accord has moved the regime farther from a nuclear bomb than at any time over the last decade.
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It's called Collisions, a beautifully shot film about one man's memory of nuclear bomb tests in the Australian desert.
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North Korea's reported nuclear bomb test was the latest addition to a string of geopolitical worries for global investors.
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The barrier to achieving their objective is the difficulty of manufacturing fissile material, the fuel of a nuclear bomb.
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Read more: If a nuclear bomb goes off, this is the most important thing you can do to survive
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They might look a bit 'Bob Geldof's Ethiopia circa 1984', but they are built to survive a nuclear bomb.
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A few weeks later, he dropped the most powerful non-nuclear bomb America owns on ISIS fighters in Afghanistan.
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If a nuclear bomb were detonated in the First World, the tragedy of 9/11 would pale in comparison.
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"Kim Jong-un's nuclear ambitions get justified and even beautified by the words 'nuclear bomb mask pack,'" he said.
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"Everyone thought the big secret was this missile, that missile, the launch codes for the nuclear bomb," Meyer said.
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The world, he declared, must not allow Iran to amass enough highly enriched uranium to produce a nuclear bomb.
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He has learned that to survive as an enemy of the United States he must possess a nuclear bomb.
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"I would rather have this book than the nuclear bomb," Audrius Butkevicius, the former Lithuanian defense minister, once said.
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"The world is burning about WannaCry, but this is a nuclear bomb compared to WannaCry," Mr. Ben-Oni said.
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Trump's withdrawal from the agreement also gives cover for Iran to inch ever-closer to obtaining a nuclear bomb.
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He dropped a nuclear bomb by suggesting that the United States is the moral equivalent of Vladimir Putin's Russia.
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Throughout his life Mr. de Brum carried a searing memory of a nuclear bomb exploding on the Pacific horizon.
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Nevertheless, such a move would not necessarily portend an Iranian race to a nuclear bomb, at least for now.
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As long as Pyongyang doesn't detonate a nuclear bomb or fire off long-range missiles, Trump says, all's well.
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" Francisco J. Monaldi, a Venezuelan oil expert at Rice University in Texas, compared the sanctions to a "nuclear bomb.
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The enrichment level of the uranium Iran has now — 3.67 percent — isn't high enough to make a nuclear bomb.
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The Master had his immense power and his secret weapon — that nuclear bomb — but Setrakian had his advantages too.
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North Korea has publicized a series of tests of its weapons technology since detonating its fourth nuclear bomb on Jan.
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That's with every technology or tool, the nuclear bomb, or the man who discovered fire, or made the first knife.
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And I've said this before, but what Ellen Pao did was basically putting a nuclear bomb on her career, right?
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A second nuclear bomb was dropped on Nagasaki City three days later and was followed by Japan's surrender on Aug.
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ISIS is horrifying, but 15 years ago we were worried about terrorists with a nuclear bomb, not an AR-15.
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The sandy atolls in the South Pacific, where the US conducted nuclear bomb tests, are disappearing into the rising seas.
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The U.S. B-2000 bomber aircraft, the Enola Gay, dropped the nuclear bomb, codenamed "Little Boy," on August 22015, 214.
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He circulated a memo that read, in part: The memo went off like a nuclear bomb inside of Advanced Equities.
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That would amount in Western eyes to resuming the quest for a nuclear bomb, and raise the spectre of war.
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It has conducted missile tests with the aim of being able to hit the United States with a nuclear bomb.
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Click here to view original GIFYesterday, the US military dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb in its arsenal on Afghanistan.
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BEIJING — North Korea's test of a nuclear bomb on Wednesday seemed aimed at antagonizing a familiar adversary, the United States.
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The decision was taken to use America's latest nuclear bomb, the guided B61-12, dropped by a B2 stealth bomber.
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Those restrictions have increased the time Iran would need to build a nuclear bomb if it chose to do so.
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Investors were also nervous ahead of a potential North Korean nuclear bomb test, which could come as early as Saturday.
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Most importantly for Trump, though, North Korea hasn't tested a nuclear bomb or missile since September and November 2017, respectively.
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On April 14, Trump authorized dropping the largest non-nuclear bomb in the U.S. arsenal on ISIS targets in Afghanistan.
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"We've now closed off every single path Iran had to building a (nuclear) bomb," U.S. President Barack Obama said Sunday.
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Tehran denies ever having aimed to develop a nuclear bomb, saying enrichment is only to generate energy for civilian uses.
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All that kept Hussein from having a nuclear bomb by the mid-1990s, therefore, was his decision to invade Kuwait.
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The Castle Bravo test conducted there on March 1, 1954 was the largest nuclear bomb the US ever set off.
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On February 5, 1958, an Air Force jet crashed into a B-47 bomber carrying a 7,000-pound nuclear bomb.
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The fruit of more than a decade of diplomacy, the pact was designed to prevent Iran obtaining a nuclear bomb.
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Reports emerged in September that North Korea had conducted a new nuclear bomb test despite international bans against such experiments.
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It lists examples such as using computer models that simulate a nuclear bomb, or designing multi-point, explosive detonation systems.
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President Donald Trump has posthumously pardoned a scientist who helped develop weapons during World War II, including the nuclear bomb.
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North Korea conducted its most recent and biggest nuclear bomb test in September and has tested dozens of ballistic missiles.
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China's version of the weapon is second only in power to a nuclear bomb, according to the Global Times report.
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So if you drop a nuclear bomb on a hurricane, you will most likely end up with a radioactive hurricane.
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The packaging of the "unification nuclear bomb packs" containing the product promises to moisturize, whiten or lift the buyer's face.
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C.E.T.C. traces its roots to the military research labs that helped build China's first nuclear bomb, satellite and guided missile.
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The US B-2000 bomber aircraft, the Enola Gay, dropped the nuclear bomb, codenamed "Little Boy," on August 22015, 214.
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Co-signatories including Germany, France and Britain say it is the best way to ensure Iran gets no nuclear bomb.
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Tensions have risen since North Korea carried out two nuclear bomb tests last year and two ICBM tests last month.
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In Chicago, a nuclear bomb could kill 151,000 people — almost as many as Houston's and San Francisco's death counts combined.
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A nuclear bomb dropped on New York City could kill 264,000 people — the most of any city on this list.
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The US dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb in US history on Thursday, hitting an ISIS target in northeast Afghanistan.
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This was North Korea's first missile test since it detonated its most powerful nuclear bomb to date on September 3.
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The level is enough for civil use to power parts of the country, but not enough to build a nuclear bomb.
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The next step for Pyongyang could be to miniaturize its nuclear bomb technology into a warhead that fits on the missile.
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North Korea possesses the technological wherewithal to develop a nuclear bomb, launch devastating cyberattacks, and even hurl rockets toward its enemies.
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While not a missile or nuclear bomb, launching a space rocket could be seen as highly provocative by the United States.
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The city of Nagasaki was hit by a second nuclear bomb on August 275, 1407, and Japan surrendered six days later.
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The city of Nagasaki was hit by a second nuclear bomb on August 9, 1945, and Japan surrendered six days later.
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Dall said Thursday it was also probable the rogue state now has a nuclear bomb that can fit on the missile.
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Under the nuclear deal, sanctions on Iran were lifted in return for Tehran rolling back technologies with nuclear bomb-making potential.
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" Iran: The nuclear deal has "extended" its development time for a nuclear bomb "from a few months to about a year.
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I honestly think that if—God forbid—if a nuclear bomb hit Austin, Nasty's would probably be the only thing standing.
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But one year later, North Korea now has that capability, and has also tested its most powerful nuclear bomb to date.
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Three days after a U.S. warplane dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, another atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki on Aug.
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" It criticizes Obama, saying that he negotiated a "dangerous nuclear deal with Iran that paves Iran's path to a nuclear bomb.
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In March, Saudi Crown Prince told CBS News that, if Iran were to build a nuclear bomb, so would Saudi Arabia.
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A kamikaze asteroid barreling towards Earth could be deflected by a spacecraft or (perhaps) blown to smithereens by a nuclear bomb.
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If the North Koreans conduct an additional test of a nuclear bomb — their seventh — "I would say 70 percent," he said.
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In the case of the Russian drone, a big amount of deadly radioactive material would be dispersed by a nuclear bomb.
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In some ways, it is this domestically focused series' equivalent of a nuclear bomb on a more traditionally structured spy drama.
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Elsewhere in Saudi Arabia: The crown prince told CBS News that if Iran developed a nuclear bomb, the kingdom would too.
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Antitrust is the nuclear bomb of regulatory policy, but the reaction to Ms. Warren's and Ms. Klobuchar's ideas was surprisingly receptive.
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The heat release of a hurricane is equivalent to a 10-megaton nuclear bomb exploding every 20 minutes, according to NOAA.
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Pakistan tested its first nuclear bomb in 103, just weeks after India conducted its first round of tests since the 1970s.
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In the redesign, the heavy water reactor will be reconfigured so it cannot yield fissile plutonium usable in a nuclear bomb.
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Iran, which Mr. Trump has painted as an implacable enemy, is not taking steps to manufacture a nuclear bomb, they said.
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I love the way The Strain treats the detonation of a nuclear bomb as just another shitty thing that can happen.
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Then in 2004, the father of the nuclear bomb program in Pakistan, A.Q. Khan, admitted to selling nuclear secrets to North Korea.
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But Trump seems fine as long as Kim doesn't test a nuclear bomb or a missile that could reach the United States.
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In recent months, it has fired two missiles over Japan and conducted its sixth and largest nuclear bomb test, stoking regional tension.
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North Korea announced ahead of the Singapore summit the suspension of its ICBM testing and also closed its nuclear bomb test site.
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Trump, therefore, seems fine as long as Kim doesn't test a nuclear bomb or a missile that could reach the United States.
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Pyongyang described the exercise, which involved two B1-B bombers, as a "nuclear bomb-dropping drill" that made nuclear war more likely.
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The US dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb in the American arsenal -- the "mother of all bombs" -- on Afghanistan in April 2017.
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And I know it takes three people for the codes for the nuclear bomb, but that still worries me too, you know.
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Hong Kong (CNN)Seventy-two years to the day after a nuclear bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, North Asia is on edge.
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It is the largest non-nuclear bomb in the U.S. arsenal and the biggest bomb the U.S. has ever dropped in Afghanistan.
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Fund investors have been unnerved by threats from North Korea, which fired a missile over Japan after testing a powerful nuclear bomb.
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Translated that means seeking the lifting of trade, financial and energy sanctions that hardened every time North Korea detonated a nuclear bomb.
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When a nuclear bomb explodes, he said, a person's radiation dose is determined by the person's distance from the point of exposure.
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The room is designed to withstand a blast even when a Hiroshima-class nuclear bomb exploded just 660 meters away, Oribe said.
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British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said earlier in the day that Iran remained "a good year away from developing a nuclear bomb".
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Bush said a purported North Korean test of a hydrogen nuclear bomb underscored Trump's challenge, pointing to Trump's inability at a Dec.
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Under the accord, Tehran curbed its uranium enrichment capacity, a potential pathway to a nuclear bomb, and won sanctions relief in return.
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The heat energy of a fully formed hurricane is "equivalent to a 21-megaton nuclear bomb exploding every 280 minutes," Landsea wrote.
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But the powerful aboveground nuclear bomb tests of the mid-21958s created even more carbon 19833 isotopes out of that atmospheric nitrogen.
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Pyongyang conducted its biggest and most recent nuclear bomb test in September and its largest and latest missile test in late November.
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A mere six pages, it's about a president obsessed with dropping a nuclear bomb on London (convinced it's the capital of France).
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"From the second she said she'd been invited to present an award, I knew it would be a nuclear bomb," he said.
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North Korea has already raised the temperature in the region by testing a nuclear bomb and intercontinental ballistic missiles in recent weeks.
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But North Korea, which defied Beijing by testing a sixth nuclear bomb on Sunday, has emerged as an unexpected and persistent obstacle.
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"If there's no deal then [North Korea] may start testing long-range missiles again and possibly its seventh nuclear bomb," he said.
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Last month, top American intelligence officials contradicted Mr. Trump by saying Iran was not currently taking steps to make a nuclear bomb.
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In the throes of the Cold War, the Soviet Union was planning to test a massive nuclear bomb in the Arctic Circle.
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The Pentagon just released video of the largest non-nuclear bomb in the U.S. arsenal explode in Afghanistan, killing 36 ISIS soldiers.
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It is also unclear how close North Korea has come to miniaturizing a nuclear bomb so it could be mounted on a missile.
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It is so far from making a nuclear bomb, it's like the distance between a cup full of fertilizer and an improvised bomb.
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Second, the review leaves open the possibility for the US to consider responding to devastating cyberattacks against the homeland with a nuclear bomb.
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Releasing nearly as much energy as a nuclear bomb, it was the largest rocket explosion in history, according to space historian Anatoly Zak.
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Enrichment at this level is enough to continue powering parts of the country's energy needs, but not enough to construct a nuclear bomb.
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Now, because it's hard to get information in or out of North Korea, it's not clear that will actually test a nuclear bomb.
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Under the deal, Iran agreed to convert the Arak reactor so that such a "plutonium pathway" to a nuclear bomb is ruled out.
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Earlier on Tuesday, North Korea's state media said the B-1B bomber flew over South Korea to stage "a nuclear bomb dropping drill".
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" In 1954, the military detonated a nuclear bomb on one of the northern Marshall Islands' Bikini Atoll, under the code name "Castle Bravo.
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The US had just hit a Syrian airbase with a missile strike and dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb ever built on Afghanistan.
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Terkel and Mostel, living through this era, were no strangers to the devastation that a nuclear bomb could create, both physically and psychologically.
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Scholz said that Berlin still viewed the international nuclear agreement with Iran as the best option to prevent it developing a nuclear bomb.
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"I'm more worried about a continuation of Clinton-like policies," Jeremy said, "than I am an orange nuclear bomb being dropped on Washington."
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It tested a nuclear bomb that year — seismographs in the region picked it up — and again in 2016, claiming both had been miniaturized.
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Heidtke says she was 10 years old when she experienced firsthand the utter devastation and the terrible consequences a nuclear bomb can deliver.
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In the 2015 novel Ghost Fleet, the spark that starts World War III is not a nuclear bomb, but a supply chain hack.
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The central bank's decision was largely ignored by investors, who dumped South Korean stocks after North Korea appeared to detonate a nuclear bomb.
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Then North Korea changed the game in 2006 when it successfully detonated a nuclear bomb and put everyone back on Cold-War footing.
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Pretty soon, though, they're bouncing around Europe, chasing a shadowy terrorist (Taylor Kitsch) who has accessed the materials to build a nuclear bomb.
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His mission is straightforward, in a Hollywood sort of way: to defuse a nuclear bomb near New York Harbor and save the world.
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In March, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman told CNBC news that if Tehran was to build a nuclear bomb, so would Riyadh.
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Although fielded and assigned for use by the military, the nuclear bomb is inherently a political weapon, given its almost unimaginable destructive capacity.
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" Trump asked the Security Council to work with Washington to "ensure the Iranian regime changes its behavior and never acquires a nuclear bomb.
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Iran took all of these steps which moved the regime farther from a nuclear bomb than at any time over the last decade.
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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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A video from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) shows what would happen if a nuclear bomb struck a major city.
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Second, Trump has given Kim almost complete license to test any weapons he wants short of a nuclear bomb or intercontinental ballistic missile.
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"I felt like a nuclear bomb went off in my life," the television host told PEOPLE after her father was diagnosed with cancer.
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China says sanctions imposed over the North's nuclear bomb and ballistic missile programs are intended to further diplomacy rather than punish the North.
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In another case this year, a poorly protected Nest camera allowed a hacker to spout fake nuclear bomb threats at a California woman.
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"B-2s with those massive ordnance penetrators" would be involved, Lamrani said, referring to the MOAB—the largest non-nuclear bomb ever dropped.
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This raises a troubling question: If Iran decides to walk through that door, how long would it take to build a nuclear bomb?
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Their reason was simple: Although Trump said Iran tried to obtain a nuclear bomb, European nations saw no indication that Tehran sought one.
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"He has to show our allies that he's not Doctor Strangelove," he said, referring to the unhinged film character who launches a nuclear bomb.
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Enrichment at this level is enough to continue powering parts of the country's energy needs, but not enough to ever build a nuclear bomb.
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Earlier this month North Korea launched its biggest nuclear bomb test, prompting global condemnation as U.S. President Donald Trump said "appeasement" would not work.
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Enrichment at this percentage is enough to continue powering parts of the country's energy needs, but not enough to ever build a nuclear bomb.
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North Korean state media reported over the weekend that the country had scheduled the dismantlement of its nuclear bomb site for later in May.
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Josh is also searching for his girlfriend, Sam (Sophie Simnett), whom he lost when the nuclear bomb went off during a school football game.
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Radioactive glass left over from the first ever test of a nuclear bomb is providing scientists with clues about the formation of Earth's Moon.
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Though the United States hasn't set off a nuclear bomb since 220, the country has still detonated more bombs than any nation in history.
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Hanford is a legacy site that produced plutonium for the world's first nuclear bomb, and for almost 24,1013 more nukes during the Cold War.
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There might be some contrarian physiologist I'm neglecting here, but it does not feel controversial …Read more ReadWhat Do Nuclear Bomb Explosions Sound Like?
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"While there was no loss of life, it was the equivalent of using a nuclear bomb to achieve a small tactical victory," Bossert says.
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The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan reportedly did not anticipate the impression dropping America's most powerful non-nuclear bomb would make on the public.
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The district is also where the US dropped its most powerful non-nuclear bomb, killing close to 100 ISIS fighters, according to Afghan officials.
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"Meaning, the condition that you say is dangerous and can produce plutonium," he said, referring to a key potential component of a nuclear bomb.
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The threats seem to come almost daily now out of North Korea — ballistic missile firings, preparations to test a nuclear bomb and routine bravado.
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The short- and long-term casualties from the denotation of just one nuclear bomb in North Korea or the United States would be staggering.
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In 1949 the Soviet Union tested its own nuclear bomb, launching a new era for America, Congo and the rest of the African continent.
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To put that in context, the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 -- which instantly killed 80,000 people -- created a yield of 15 kilotons.
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To put that in context, the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 -- which instantly killed 80,000 people -- had a yield of 15 kilotons.
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US leaves the Iran deal Trump says he'll sanction Iran, crippling an agreement designed to halt the regime's pursuit of a nuclear bomb. 2.
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The nuclear bomb was such a powerful weapon that it couldn't be used rhetorically without dangerously escalating a limited situation to a global war.
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Washington (CNN)The United States on Thursday dropped the most powerful non-nuclear bomb in its military arsenal for the first time in history.
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But without this deal,Iran could resume and accelerate its nuclear program, increasing the chances of an Iranian nuclear bomb and U.S. military action.
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Preppers simply share a desire to prepare for the worst, whether that's a nuclear bomb, modern civil war, or hurricane that destroys their home.
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The 2015 nuclear pact seeks to head off any pathway to an Iranian nuclear bomb in return for the removal of most international sanctions.
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During the 20th century the world eventually found a way to manage a paradigm shift in military technology, the emergence of the nuclear bomb.
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When the US launches a nuclear bomb at a Chinese military base in the first episode, eldest Lyons daughter Edith (Jessica Hynes) is there.
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And he may just be willing to take a step considered to be a political nuclear bomb in Washington: Fire special counsel Robert Mueller.
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Opponents of Iran Deal Hired Investigators to Dig Up Dirt on Obama Aide How Long Would It Take Iran to Build a Nuclear Bomb?
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That means Iran would have no limit on its enrichment capacity, the level to which uranium could be processed to create a nuclear bomb.
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They may also choose to lash out in a desperate bid to escape this logic, perhaps by making a break for a nuclear bomb.
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There are surprising details about the moon, such as how in 1958, the US proposed exploding a nuclear bomb on its surface, for clout.
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Trump called it the worst deal ever negotiated but European powers see it as the best chance of stopping Iran developing a nuclear bomb.
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The chance that a nuclear bomb would strike a US city is slim, but nuclear experts say it&aposs not out of the question.
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But North Korea has expedited its plans to develop a nuclear bomb, which it sees as a valuable bargaining chip in eventual peace negotiations.
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But, from North Korea's perspective, if there's no deal, then it may start testing long-range missiles again and possibly its seventh nuclear bomb.
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In a portion of the interview published Thursday, the crown prince said his country would obtain a nuclear bomb if Iran developed its own.
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Throughout his statement, Johnson repeatedly said the JCPOA had delivered on the core goal of preventing Iran from moving towards acquiring a nuclear bomb.
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Oh, and while we're at it: The Air Force lost a nuclear bomb off the coast of Georgia in 1958, where it remains today.
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The reality is that this deal seeks to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear bomb -- not to bring the country into the community of nations.
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Trump has promised to ensure that North Korea does not get the capability to build a nuclear bomb that can hit the mainland United States.
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Idaho National Laboratory spokesperson Sarah Neumann told the Center of Public Integrity that the plutonium samples stolen were not enough to make a nuclear bomb.
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By contrast, the US's most powerful nuclear bomb — the B83, with a 1.2 megaton maximum yield — would have a blast radius of nearly 20 miles.
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Doing so would be a serious blow to the nuclear deal, which many Western countries sees as essential for stopping Tehran developing a nuclear bomb.
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"It is clear to me that we cannot prevent an Iranian nuclear bomb under the decaying and rotten structure of the current agreement," he said.
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It was Clement Attlee, feted by the left on all other matters, who took Britain into NATO and demanded that it develop the nuclear bomb.
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Another threat to North Korea's food security was an increase in U.N. sanctions following the country's sixth and largest nuclear bomb test earlier this month.
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"Banks' risk committees have decided they don't want this business because of North Korea stepping up its nuclear bomb tests," a physical trading source said.
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On July 16, 1945, the U.S. Army detonated the first-ever nuclear bomb, conducting the event at the Trinity test site in southern New Mexico.
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But France, Britain and Germany say the 2015 nuclear accord is separate and should be upheld because it prevents Iran from developing a nuclear bomb.
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"It is clear to me that we cannot prevent an Iranian nuclear bomb under the decaying and rotten structure of the current agreement," Trump said.
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Senator Ted Cruz typified this perception of the North recently, labeling the current leader, Kim Jong-un, as a "crazy nutcase" with a nuclear bomb.
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Following North Korea's failed missile launch on Sunday, tensions have escalated amid concerns that the isolated state may soon test another nuclear bomb or missile.
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The Pentagon said Thursday that it had dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb ever used in combat, prompting questions about what exactly this weapon is.
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The session in Asia followed a lower finish on Wall Street, after U.S. military forces dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb in Afghanistan on Thursday.
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Sunday's nuclear bomb test followed North Korea firing a ballistic missile last month over Japan, as well as threats to attack Guam, a U.S. territory.
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Iran has now pledged to enrich uranium at a much faster pace, putting it on track to develop a nuclear bomb in the coming years.
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EVER since North Korea first tested a nuclear bomb, in 2006, it has repeatedly thumbed its nose at those seeking to halt its nuclear programme.
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Jornada del Muerto, New Mexico (CNN)On July 16, 1945, deep in the New Mexico desert, the U.S. Army detonated the world's first nuclear bomb.
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Tashkent's subway system was designated as a nuclear bomb shelter, and it was considered too strategically important for photos of it to be shared widely.
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Once in America he became involved in the Manhattan Project, which led to the first nuclear bomb, bringing him renown well beyond the physics community.
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The defense minister called the gay rights movement a "proxy war" waged by the West to weaken Indonesia and more dangerous than a nuclear bomb.
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The auction house displayed a typed 1939 letter from Einstein to former US President Franklin Roosevelt in 2002, regarding the dangers of nuclear bomb technology.
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North Korea said it had successfully tested a nuclear bomb on Wednesday but weapons experts voiced doubts the device was as advanced as it claimed.
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That bid fell through, and North Korea has continued to drive toward building a nuclear bomb capable of hitting its neighbors and the United States.
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Iran, seeing a fellow Shiite-majority nation robbed of its lifeblood, would strike, and jump again into a fast-paced development of a nuclear bomb.
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At 8,000 feet, before the 17 crew members parachuted out of the doomed plane, they jettisoned a dummy nuclear bomb they were carrying on board.
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Last September, Pyongyang tested its largest nuclear bomb to date, one that was seven times stronger than the weapon America dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.
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Tension in the region has risen since North Korea carried out two nuclear bomb tests last year and two intercontinental ballistic missile tests in July.
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" Then "we immediately understood that we are facing a project of a plutonium nuclear reactor which had only one purpose: to produce a nuclear bomb.
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Kim tested intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) in 29 that, at least in theory, could carry a nuclear bomb all the way to the United States.
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A hundred years ago, an organization dedicated to researching catastrophic risks to humanity wouldn't have known that the nuclear bomb was just over the horizon.
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Opinion In January, I started writing a novel in which a 10-kiloton nuclear bomb was detonated in the center of Washington, where I live.
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In the 1960s and '70s, Mao's "two bombs, one satellite" program helped the government develop a nuclear bomb, a ballistic missile and its first satellite.
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That opened a new line of questioning about why the President would goad an unpredictable leader with a nuclear bomb if he was mentally unfit.
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This violates the JCPOA's cap of 3.67% on uranium enrichment, but it's still far below weapons-grade levels needed for a nuclear bomb (90% enrichment).
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But Europe's objective would be to keep Iran in a deal that continues to block Iran's path to a nuclear bomb irrespective of American policy.
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And, perhaps more consequentially, Tehran announced a major reduction in compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal, easing the Islamic Republic's path to a nuclear bomb.
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The United States also told the United Nations that the regime is "begging for war" after Pyongyang set off its most powerful nuclear bomb yet.
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CNBC explains… A hydrogen bomb is a type of nuclear bomb, just like an atomic bomb, where the explosive energy comes from as nuclear reaction.
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The North's statement on Tuesday noted these developments, referring to the flights as a "nuclear-bomb-dropping drill," though Lancers are no longer nuclear-capable.
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Don't forget that the only country to attack U.S. soil --and on which we dropped a nuclear bomb-- is now one of our closest allies.
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Witness the recent flurry of European statements over Iranian compliance with the Obama-era nuclear deal that cut Tehran's immediate pathway to a nuclear bomb.
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"It's like the shockwave from a nuclear bomb, only much bigger, and no one gets hurt," says Brad Tucker from the Australian National University (ANU).
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" Probably within 12 months, he says, "Iran may well have, with their now I think 3,000 centrifuges, enough fissile material to create a nuclear bomb.
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On the new podcast, Ibrahim also praised former Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partner Ellen Pao for "putting a nuclear bomb on her career" in 2015.
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The theory around whether someone might drop a nuclear bomb takes away from the most serious matter in these discussions: the human and physical toll.
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North Korea has tested dozens of ballistic missiles, two of which flew over Japan, and conducted its sixth and largest nuclear bomb test in September.
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Any one of these inventions would revolutionize the world economy and the geopolitical balance more completely than the introduction of the automobile or the nuclear bomb.
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The day after the United States dropped its biggest non-nuclear bomb in Afghanistan, killing 36 ISIS fighters, the hosts of Fox & Friends heralded the strike.
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And it may soon no longer abide by part of the 2015 nuclear deal, meaning it could inch closer to potentially obtaining a nuclear bomb someday.
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Under the agreement, economic sanctions were lifted in January after Iran suspended sensitive nuclear work that the West suspects was aimed at creating a nuclear bomb.
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Photo: GettyEarlier this year, Hawaiian residents received a text—"BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII"—wrongly signaling that a nuclear bomb might be headed their way.
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And while North Korea's nuclear warheads couldn't fly from there to mainland America, Robbins pointed out that there are other ways of detonating a nuclear bomb.
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The show Travelers, starring Will & Grace's Eric McCormack, used some of the footage in the latest season to show disruption in London after a nuclear bomb.
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If they fail, Mr Rouhani warned that Iran could resume enriching uranium to higher levels of purity, which would shorten its path to a nuclear bomb.
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Both Trump and Israel may be unswayed by the argument that it'll take Iran months, rather than weeks, to acquire the ingredients for a nuclear bomb.
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Diplomacy with Iran under Barack Obama was intended to break this escalatory cycle leading to the grim choice of an Iranian nuclear bomb or bombing Iran.
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While they're on the job, they come across an amazing find: a magic wand that grants wishes, a sort of nuclear bomb of this fantasy world.
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Just because Kim does not detonate a nuclear bomb or fire a missile over Japan does not mean he can't build ever more advanced nuclear weapons.
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And on Thursday, CNN first reported the military's use of the largest non-nuclear bomb in its arsenal to kill about 94 ISIS fighters in Afghanistan.
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"What's worse than unleashing on society the wrath of the largest non-nuclear bomb yet to be made?" the 2008 Eglin Air Force Base piece asked.
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The U.S. showed a new bravado, firing cruise missiles at a Syrian air base and on Thursday, dropping the biggest non-nuclear bomb ever on Afghanistan.
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It was the largest non-nuclear bomb used by the US in combat, but whether the new commander in chief personally approved its use is unclear.
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Most people don't: Our supply of that medication is "pitifully inadequate" for a nuclear bomb scenario and there is no system to distribute it, he says.
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North Korea has tested dozens of ballistic missiles and conducted its sixth and largest nuclear bomb test in September, in violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.
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If Kim Jong Un believes that Trump is rash enough to initiate a first strike, he may accelerate his missile and nuclear-bomb tests and deployments.
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Former Chief of the Mossad, Danny Yatom, described this incident as a major blow against Western agencies trying to gather intelligence on an Iranian nuclear bomb.
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It has substantially restricted Iran's ability to produce fissile material, the key ingredient for a nuclear bomb, and in that way has made the world safer.
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The NRC limits the amount of unirradiated HEU at research and test reactors to less than what would be needed to build a nuclear bomb device.
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Hailed by Obama as key to stopping Iran from building a nuclear bomb, the deal lifted economic sanctions in exchange for Tehran limiting its nuclear ambitions.
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Under the deal, North Korea halted construction of two nuclear reactors that the United States believed would be used to produce fuel for a nuclear bomb.
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On top of that, North Korea tested its most powerful nuclear bomb ever on September 250, and it may have stockpiled up to 2000 nuclear weapons.
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It aimed to extend the time Tehran would need to produce a nuclear bomb, if it chose to, from roughly 2-3 months to a year.
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In an interview on CBS' "60 Minutes" that aired Sunday, he said the kingdom would work quickly to obtain a nuclear bomb if Iran developed one.
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As early as March, it could obtain 1,000 kilograms of uranium enriched up to 5%, roughly enough uranium to build a nuclear bomb after further enrichment.
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And the U.S. used the largest non-nuclear bomb in its arsenal for the first time, dropping it on an Islamic State tunnel complex in Afghanistan.
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More worrisome to China than the missile advances was the prospect of North Korea's sixth test of a nuclear bomb, Mr. Wu and other experts said.
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Conspicuously, Andrei Sakharov, the father of the Soviet nuclear bomb, who also received the Nobel Peace Prize for human rights campaigning, is missing from the list.
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The launch, which violated an international ban on North Korea developing ballistic missile technology, came just weeks after the country's fourth test of a nuclear bomb.
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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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Korean tensions have escalated following repeated North Korean missile tests and concerns that Pyongyang may soon conduct a sixth nuclear bomb test in defiance of U.N. sanctions.
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He has not given up a single nuclear bomb, he&aposs not given up a single ICBM, he&aposs not given up any of the nuclear infrastructure.
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In the 1940s through the '60s, it was the headquarters of a top-secret military film studio tasked with documenting nuclear bomb blasts, which sounds super-creepy.
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The Hermit Kingdom tested its first nuclear bomb in 2006 and has spent the past decade steadily improving the rockets needed to lob one at its enemies.
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Because an Iranian nuclear bomb would threaten Russia's primacy in the region, Russia was happy to take a role in the deal that constrained Iran's nuclear programme.
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This kind of medium-range missile could potentially hold a nuclear payload, if North Korea figured out how to both build and then miniaturize a nuclear bomb.
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In the wake of North Korea's test of its most powerful nuclear bomb yet on Sunday, President Donald Trump has made another vague, ominous threat on Twitter.
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If they cannot, Iran would feel free to enrich uranium to ever higher levels, which would shorten its path to producing fissile material for a nuclear bomb.
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The heat energy of a fully formed hurricane is "equivalent to a 13-megaton nuclear bomb exploding every 21 minutes," as NOAA meteorologist Chris Landsea has explained.
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There would also probably be more than one nuclear bomb per target in reality, since the military would expect that not every bomb would reach its target.
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"These clouds are analogous to the huge pyroclastic clouds that form from a major volcanic explosion, or from the ground explosion of a nuclear bomb," said Burt.
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His economy is widely believed to be under the twin, interwoven strains of more stringent sanctions and the cost of his accelerated missile and nuclear bomb programs.
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But few people on Earth have ever used as bizarre or overkill a method as devised by a Cold War physicist: the explosion of a nuclear bomb.
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The film suggests that the military exercise was meant to test how troops would fight, if at all, immediately after a nuclear bomb had hit the area.
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" He correctly left the Iran nuclear deal in May because "we cannot prevent an Iranian nuclear bomb under the decaying and rotten structure of the current agreement.
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The man barely spoke for all of Drive, if he wanted to use silence as a weapon, he would be deploying the equivalent of a nuclear bomb.
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A chemical weapon like mustard agent is less dangerous than a weaponized biological agent like smallpox, which is in turn way less dangerous than a nuclear bomb.
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Read more: If a nuclear bomb explodes nearby, here's why you should never, ever get in a carNuclear explosions release radioactive dust that could land in hair
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In that blockbuster, a ragtag crew was sent on a mission to drill into an asteroid and set off a nuclear bomb to avert a global catastrophe.
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But just hours before Mr. Xi was set to address the carefully choreographed meeting on Sunday, North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, detonated his sixth nuclear bomb.
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The "all-out effort" is in response to the North's progress in developing intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of delivering a nuclear bomb to the United States mainland.
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Meanwhile, Donald Trump has at this point repeatedly denied a report in Axios that he earnestly proposed dropping a nuclear bomb into the eye of a hurricane.
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In his own mind, Kim likely considers he has already joined the nuclear bomb-capable club and talks will focus on cementing that as internationally accepted fact.
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After decades of effort, Iran was close to producing enough enriched uranium for a nuclear bomb when it reached the deal with the major powers in 2015.
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But with the British actress Billie Piper embodying Stone's reinvention of Lorca's heroine, watching "Yerma" was like looking at a nuclear bomb go off in slow motion.
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The daring raid targeted Nazi efforts to develop components needed for a nuclear bomb, and the mission's success ultimately prevented German scientists from developing that fearsome weapon.
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The United States imposed more sanctions on Iran on Friday and vowed to tighten the economic screws if Tehran continued "terrorist" acts or pursued a nuclear bomb.
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Last April, the US military dropped its most powerful non-nuclear bomb on what it said were ISIS positions in Afghanistan, describing it as a tactical move.
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The Slim Pickens ExpressThe movie: To get back home, Roy decides to ride the "shock wave" of the nuclear bomb to propel him from Neptune to Earth.
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Wood said that Musk's tweets "dropped a bomb" on Unsworth, a nuclear bomb that would have radiation that might affect Unsworth for the rest of his life.
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In closing arguments, Unsworth's lead lawyer, L. Lin Wood, said that Musk "dropped a nuclear bomb" on the diver by tweeting those assertions to 22 million followers.
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North Korea's nuclear program threatens the United States beyond the traditional scenario of an intercontinental ballistic missile dropping a nuclear bomb on New York or Los Angeles.
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In April, Trump approved the 59-missile strike on a Syrian-government airfield and used the most powerful non-nuclear bomb in the American arsenal in Afghanistan.
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The raid took place not far from where the U.S. dropped its largest non-nuclear bomb (to much fanfare) on an ISIS tunnel complex earlier in April.
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Hailed by its admirers as key to stopping Iran from building a nuclear bomb, the deal lifted economic sanctions in exchange for Tehran limiting its nuclear program.
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Inspectors monitoring the country's nuclear weapons program would stay in the country beyond that so Tehran, presumably, would not be able to develop a nuclear bomb in secret.
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On the geopolitical front, North Korea fired a ballistic missile across Japan, creating new tensions in the region after its nuclear bomb test less than two weeks ago.
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Trump said he was reimposing economic sanctions on Iran and pulling the U.S. out of the 2015 international agreement aimed at stopping Tehran from obtaining a nuclear bomb.
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On Sunday, U.S. President Donald Trump increased diplomatic contacts with allies in Asia to secure their cooperation to pressure North Korea over its nuclear bomb and missile programs.
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A day before the launch, a North Korean state agency threatened Japan, saying it "should be sunken into the sea by the nuclear bomb of Juche," Reuters reported.
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Washington (CNN)Legendary basketball coach Bobby Knight believes Republican front-runner Donald Trump would have the "guts" to drop a nuclear bomb, just like former President Harry Truman.
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Iran is still complying with the restrictions imposed by the deal, which have increased the time it would need to build a nuclear bomb if it chose to.
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As for Europe, nukes are scattered everywhere on the continent and cities like London, Venice, Milan, Brussels and Rotterdam are all within 50 miles of a nuclear bomb.
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And after rushing to perfect a nuclear bomb, and celebrating volubly at each successful test, Mr Kim declared that in fact he wanted a "nuclear-free Korean peninsula".
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Godzilla's head was a mushroom cloud, and its skin wasn't covered in scales but rather made to look more like keloid scars of survivors of the nuclear bomb.
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Sceptics tend to dismiss as far-fetched the idea that the rogue regime would knock out the electricity grid by detonating a nuclear bomb high in the atmosphere.
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For the first time, Pyongyang managed to successfully test an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) with enough range to theoretically hit New York or Washington with a nuclear bomb.
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McMaster, meanwhile, landed in Afghanistan Sunday for talks with the country's leaders after the US dropped its largest non-nuclear bomb on an ISIS enclave there last week.
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Why it matters: The latest estimate says the test was roughly 17 times stronger than the 15 kilotons released by the nuclear bomb that decimated Hiroshima in 1945.
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But North Korea has many undeclared facilities, including one or more secret uranium enrichment sites to make more nuclear bomb fuel, and we don't know where they are.
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North Korea has frozen missile and nuclear bomb testing since 2017, but U.S. officials believe Pyongyang has continued to expand its arsenal by producing bomb fuel and missiles.
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U.S. officials have been saying for weeks that North Korea could soon stage another nuclear bomb test, something both the United States and China have both warned against.
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Speaking after the released Americans had left Iran, Obama said Iran now would not "get its hands on a nuclear bomb" and the planet would be more secure.
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Germany's Angela Merkel and France's Emmanuel Macron together issued joint statements about North Korea's massive nuclear bomb test, emphasizing not just UN sanctions, but separate European sanctions also.
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The data reflects activity in the week ended Sept 6, after North Korea's largest ever nuclear bomb test and U.S. investors were shaken by Hurricanes Irma and Harvey.
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"It is clear to me that we cannot prevent an Iranian nuclear bomb under the decaying and rotten structure of the current agreement," Trump said at the time.
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S. conflict that were run by Washington in the 1990s showed a war would have a "horrendous" outcome, and that was before the nuclear bomb was ever introduced.
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The release of the Tim Allen comedy "Big Trouble," which involved a nuclear bomb being smuggled onto an airplane, was postponed seven months during the same time period.
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If Smyrichinsky's object is proven to be a nuclear bomb, well, that's one hell of a haul for a man who was simply out looking for sea cucumbers.
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North Korea has frozen missile and nuclear bomb testing since 2017 but U.S. officials believe it has expanded its arsenal by continuing to produce bomb fuel and missiles.
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Obama's sanctions program ended with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, an international accord with Tehran reached in 2015 aimed at preventing Iran from getting a nuclear bomb.
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Trump said he was reimposing economic sanctions on Iran and pulling the United States out of an international agreement aimed at stopping Tehran from obtaining a nuclear bomb.
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"What I do is I authorize my military," Trump said April 13 following the use of the Pentagon's largest non-nuclear bomb on a militant compound in Afghanistan.
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He also agreed to dismantle some missile-test facilities and — if Washington took "corresponding" steps — to dismantle the Yongbyon nuclear complex, a center for producing nuclear bomb fuel.
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Under the deal, North Korea agreed to halt construction of two nuclear reactors that the United States believed would be used to produce fuel for a nuclear bomb.
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The end of the daily press briefing doesn't drive headlines like Trump's reported interest in dropping a nuclear bomb into a hurricane or his proposal to buy Greenland.
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The threat of absolute destruction makes a nuclear bomb a "poor man's weapon" with which to tighten control of the country and ensure long-term rule, Thae said.
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It was the 15th missile test by North Korea this year and the first since North Korea detonated its most powerful nuclear bomb to date on Sept. 3.
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"This is a nuclear bomb dropped in the middle of the race and it's going to change the dynamics for everyone," said Jared Leopold, an aide to Gov.
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The United States has refused to rule out dropping a nuclear bomb on an enemy that has used only conventional weapons, since it first did so in 1945.
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Our national security correspondent reports that expert studies and classified intelligence findings have concluded that North Korea can now produce a nuclear bomb every six or seven weeks.
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Though the results had awkward aspects, that opera maintained a strong narrative impetus: Its plot was driven by a countdown to the first detonation of a nuclear bomb.
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Unlike a fighter jet, nuclear bomb, or missile defense system, Amazon's cloud business is totally adaptable and legal for the company to market and sell to almost anyone.
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Screenshot: A nuclear bomb simulator app that allows you to choose what kind of bomb is dropped anywhere you like (Outrider Foundation)So what's the purpose of this experiment?
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The United States dropped a GBU-43/B — the most powerful non-nuclear bomb ever used in combat — for the first time Thursday in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan, per CNN.
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Many in the West see it as the best hope of preventing Iran from getting a nuclear bomb and heading off a nuclear arms race in the Middle East.
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It had been literally hours since Kim Kardashian dropped a nuclear bomb on Taylor Swift and Khloé posted an obviously-fake photo purportedly of actress Chloë Grace Moretz's butt.
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They looked through the layers of the eye for levels of carbon-14, a particular carbon isotope introduced into the environment during nuclear bomb tests beginning in the 1950s.
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Five days later, North Korea tested its most powerful nuclear bomb yet, which was at least seven times more powerful than the one America dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.
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The legislation was passed by the House Foreign Affairs Committee last February but it was stalled until Pyongyang jolted the world by setting off an underground nuclear bomb test.
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While Stuxnet was a success on many fronts — it set back the Iranian program to build a nuclear bomb by a few years — it also had some unintended consequences.
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The legislation was passed by the House Foreign Affairs Committee last February but it was stalled until Pyongyang jolted the world by setting off an underground nuclear bomb test.
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But while the MOAB bomb detonates with the power of 18,000 pounds of tritonal explosives, the size of its explosion pales in comparison to that of a nuclear bomb.
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The head of U.S. Special Operations Command defended Thursday the decision to drop the Pentagon's largest non-nuclear bomb — nicknamed the "mother of all bombs" — in Afghanistan last month.
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North Korea nuclear bomb test: 7 key questions answered In February, Pyongyang said it had successfully launched an Earth satellite into orbit via the long-range Kwangmyongsong carrier rocket.
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North Korea nuclear bomb test: 7 key questions answered In February , Pyongyang said it had successfully launched an Earth satellite into orbit via the long-range Kwangmyongsong carrier rocket.
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Nicknamed the "mother of all bombs," the MOAB is the biggest non-nuclear bomb in the U.S. arsenal and Thursday was the first time it had ever been used.
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These provocations, since the mid-1990s when Songun began, often include nuclear weapons work, such as missile development and nuclear bomb tests, of which this week's is the fourth.
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Brent futures, the global crude benchmark, briefly turned positive after Trump announced the U.S. withdrawal from the 2015 international agreement aimed at stopping Iran from obtaining a nuclear bomb.
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The moves raise "concerns that Iran is positioning itself to have the option of a rapid nuclear breakout," Mr. Pompeo said, meaning a rush to develop a nuclear bomb.
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If Heisenberg mentioned working on a nuclear bomb, Berg was to stand up and shoot Heisenberg point blank, with the understanding that this would also mean being killed himself.
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Very different is the tale of Dr A.Q. Khan, who gave Pakistan its first nuclear bomb, sold nuclear secrets to North Korea and is a patron of domestic cricket.
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They also used the unusual method of testing Greenland sharks for "bomb pulses" of carbon-14, a heavy isotope left behind by nuclear bomb testing in the mid-1950s.
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Tearing up the JCPOA, without a better strategy for preventing an Iranian nuclear bomb and a broader strategy for combating non-nuclear malign Iranian behavior, would make no sense.
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Another way to fuel a nuclear bomb is using plutonium, specifically plutonium produced through the natural operation of a specific kind of nuclear reactor called a "heavy water" reactor.
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Netanyahu says that as the deal expires over the next decade or so, Iran will emerge with the ability to produce a nuclear bomb in a very short time.
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He said Paris shared U.S. concerns over Iran's ballistic missile "frenzy" and regional goals, but the 2015 deal was the best chance of stopping Tehran building a nuclear bomb.
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Earlier this month, U.S. commanders decided to drop the largest non-nuclear bomb in the country's arsenal in Afghanistan, the first time the bomb had been used in combat.
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Last month, it agreed to dismantle some missile-test facilities and — if Washington took "corresponding" steps — to dismantle its Yongbyon nuclear complex, a center for producing nuclear bomb fuel.
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The fight in Mohmand Valley began in April 2017, after the United States opened the jihadists' front line by dropping the largest non-nuclear bomb ever used in combat.
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Under the deal, Iran is allowed limited research and development on advanced centrifuges, which accelerate the production of fissile material that can be used to make a nuclear bomb.
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Not that there's any nuclear bomb or runaway meteor heading toward the cheery London kitchen — in the home of a celebrated television chef — that gives the play its title.
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And if you consider the kind of threats we're facing today — climate change, organized crime, food security, that kind of stuff — you can't fight terrorism with a nuclear bomb.
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Ultimately, Obama caved in on many of his original demands and left the door open, as he himself admitted, for Iran to obtain a nuclear bomb in the future.
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Now, Perry believes that the refurbished B61 nuclear bomb makes it possible for the Defense department to maintain an effective nuclear-armed bomber force without a nuclear cruise missile.
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" A lawyer for one of Jia's creditors, who was granted anonymity so they could speak freely about the case, called the filing a "nuclear bomb" and a "scathing attack.
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"The four islands of the [Japanese] archipelago should be sunken into the sea by the nuclear bomb of Juche," the spokesperson said, referring to the country's "self-reliance" ideology.
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Under the accord negotiated by Trump's predecessor Barack Obama, Iran agreed to curb its uranium enrichment capacity, a potential pathway to a nuclear bomb, in return for sanctions relief.
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For the Anthropocene, the best candidate for such a golden spike are radioactive elements from nuclear bomb tests, which were blown into the stratosphere before settling down to Earth.
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Last year, a top government official called the LGBTQ community a threat more dangerous than a nuclear bomb and a weapon in an ongoing "proxy war" with the West.
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Under the deal, Iran is allowed limited research and development on advanced centrifuges, which accelerate the production of fissile material that can be used to make a nuclear bomb.
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"Watch out" is an apt way to enter the state, particularly on this trip: New Mexico is the birthplace of the nuclear bomb and the site of its first test.
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Here is the most frightening thing you'll read all day: Growing numbers of US intelligence officials believe North Korea can produce a new nuclear bomb every six or seven weeks.
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Here are just some of those steps: What all that means: Before the deal, Iran could likely make a nuclear bomb within two or three months if it decided to.
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He said Paris shared Washington's concerns over Iran's ballistic missile "frenzy" and regional ambitions, but the 2015 nuclear deal was the best chance of stopping Tehran developing a nuclear bomb.
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"It is clear to me that we cannot prevent an Iranian nuclear bomb under the decaying and rotten structure of the current agreement," Trump said, standing in the White House.
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Set after the events of Far Cry 5, in which villain Joseph Seed sets off a nuclear bomb, New Dawn looks to feature a drastic change in tone and style.
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But the U.S. and its allies believe that such a launch would probably be a cover for a program meant to develop a missile that could deliver a nuclear bomb.
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My theory is that, while Antichrist Michael Langdon will likely be involved in the forthcoming apocalypse, it will be a nuclear bomb that provides the physical threat to the characters.
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If a nuclear bomb went off on San Francisco, almost the entire tip of the peninsula would disappear under the fireball, shockwave, radiation, and catastrophic heat spreading from the blast.
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U.S. officials have welcomed Kim's recent announcement of a suspension of long-range missile tests and the closing of his nuclear bomb test site but say these steps are reversible.
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Albright told CNN that the additional low enriched uranium could reduce the amount of time needed for Iran to develop a nuclear bomb if it decided to break the accord.
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He drew on government experts, including US Energy Secretary (and Nobel prize winner) Steven Chu, to help him evaluate various options including detonating a nuclear bomb to seal the leak.
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Abe's visit is a return gesture for Obama's trip to Hiroshima -- the first by a sitting US president to the site where America dropped a nuclear bomb in 1945. 3.
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North Korea has test-fired missiles over the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido twice earlier this year and has threatened to sink Japan into the sea with a nuclear bomb.
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The nuclear deal required Iran to curb its uranium enrichment capacity to head off any pathway to developing a nuclear bomb, in return for the removal of most international sanctions.
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The United States on Thursday dropped its largest non-nuclear bomb on ISIS targets in Afghanistan, the first time such a bomb has been used in combat, the Pentagon announced.
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On Tuesday, Trump called the agreement "decaying" and "rotten" and said, "It is clear to me that we cannot prevent an Iranian nuclear bomb" under the terms of the deal.
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Referring to reports of sexual assaults by migrants on German women in Cologne on New Year's Eve in 2015, Mr. Farage called this "the nuclear bomb" of the referendum campaign.
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Only now, Kim holds at least one extra card his father never had -- a nuclear bomb, one that he claims he can put in a rocket and hit mainland USA.
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"Just like the Manhattan Project, in order to build a nuclear bomb you need eggheads, logistics personnel, and military personnel," said Michael Madden, an expert on the North Korean leadership.
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The Agence France-Presse reported that Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said Wednesday that the country would do "everything we can" to build a nuclear bomb in that situation.
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In his New Year speech this year, Kim told North Koreans that now that the country had achieved a nuclear bomb he would channel his efforts toward improving the economy.
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It has ended all uranium enrichment, a process that can be used to produce nuclear bomb-grade fuel, and removed all nuclear material from its once-secret facility at Fordow.
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China's earthquake administration said it had detected a magnitude 3.4 quake in North Korea that was a "suspected explosion", raising fears that Pyongyang might have conducted another nuclear bomb test.
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" Radiological signatures We of course haven't even gotten into the fallout from nuclear bomb testing, which, according to the authors, is "potentially the most widespread and globally synchronous anthropogenic signal.
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Remember: Last year, North Korea proved it has a missile capable of hitting all parts of the United States and most of Europe, as well as a massive nuclear bomb.
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Still, the Iran deal sounded good to most lawmakers and officials in the Obama era, considering Tehran agreed to it just two or three months before acquiring a nuclear bomb.
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North Korea appears to be making new nuclear bomb fuel, satellite imagery shows, even as its leader, Kim Jong-un, has expressed willingness to negotiate atomic disarmament with President Trump.
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North Korea has conducted six nuclear bomb tests since 2006, all in tunnels deep beneath the mountains of Punggye-ri, in defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions and international condemnation.
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The United States and South Korea began talks on possible deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system after North Korea tested its fourth nuclear bomb on Jan.
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North Korea is unlikely to give up its nuclear stockpiles, and Iran isn't trying to make a nuclear bomb, according to an intelligence assessment of global threats released on Tuesday.
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On Wednesday, Global Times, a prominent state-run Chinese newspaper, said that if the North tested another nuclear bomb or a missile, restrictions on oil might be the next step.
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The difference between these two 'types' of uranium comes down to only three neutrons, but these three particles mean the difference between a nuclear bomb and a chunk of rock.
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And North Korea today is significantly closer to being able to deliver a nuclear bomb to the US mainland than it was when Trump came into office one year ago.
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But with the North's test of a nuclear bomb this week, he appears to have mastered a strategy that has served his reclusive country well: playing one big power against another.
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Hailed by Trump's predecessor Barack Obama as key to stopping Iran from building a nuclear bomb, the deal was also signed by China, France, Russia, Britain, Germany and the European Union.
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North Korea hasn't conducted a rocket test nor a nuclear bomb since November 28, 2017, but the country has largely rejected calls for international inspectors to access North Korean nuclear facilities.
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In the film OMNIS is stored within a bird — yes, a literal bird — to not only keep it hidden from firefighters, but safe even in the case of a nuclear bomb.
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A piece of malicious code can be every bit as destructive as a nuclear bomb, so I'm not sure at what point information becomes a material threat, but clearly it can.
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SEOUL/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - North Korea launched a long-range rocket carrying what it called a satellite, drawing renewed international condemnation just weeks after it carried out a nuclear bomb test.
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That would give the U.S. Congress 60 days to decide whether to reimpose sanctions on Tehran that were suspended in return for it rolling back technologies with nuclear bomb-making potential.
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I do hope, however, that women putting their names to these allegations in Albergotti's story, combined with Susan Fowler's nuclear bomb of a blog post, will encourage others to speak up.
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Kabul (CNN)At least 94 Islamic State fighters were killed when the US military dropped America's most powerful non-nuclear bomb on ISIS targets in Afghanistan, an Afghan official said Saturday.
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The Friday attack by the Taliban came more than a week after the US military dropped America's most powerful non-nuclear bomb on ISIS targets in Afghanistan, killing 94 ISIS fighters.
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The United States and South Korea earlier began talks on possible deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system after North Korea tested its fourth nuclear bomb on Jan.
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The Pentagon said Thursday U.S. military forces dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb in Afghanistan, the first time the so-called mother of all bombs has ever been used in combat.
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The United States and South Korea have begun talks on possible deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system after North Korea tested its fourth nuclear bomb on Jan.
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The increasing frequency of missile tests has fueled a growing sense of urgency over how to respond to isolated, unpredictable North Korea, which conducted its fifth nuclear bomb test in September.
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North Korea nuclear bomb test: 7 key questions answered Then on February 7, Pyongyang said it had successfully launched an Earth satellite into orbit via the long-range Kwangmyongsong carrier rocket.
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"I ask all members of the Security Council to work with the United States to ensure the Iranian regime changes its behavior and never acquires a nuclear bomb," Trump said Wednesday.
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Tension in the region has risen since the reclusive North staged two nuclear bomb tests last year and launched two intercontinental ballistic missile tests in July in defiance of world powers.
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"It is clear to me that we cannot prevent an Iranian nuclear bomb under the decaying and rotten structure of the current agreement," Trump said from the White House Diplomatic Room.
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The Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported that Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said Wednesday that the country would do "everything we can" to build a nuclear bomb in that situation.
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In other words, Tehran agreed to restrictions that would allow it to have enough enriched uranium to maintain the country's energy needs, without having the ability to build a nuclear bomb.
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Except for one nuclear bomb, courtesy of President Trump in the last days of his second term, most of the show grapples with the day-to-day indignities of civilizational collapse.
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The idea is to break away from traditional linear viewing to put the audience "inside" the film, creating a more impactful, visceral way to experience the story of the nuclear bomb.
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"The four islands of the archipelago should be sunken into the sea by the nuclear bomb of juche," he said, referring to the North's ruling philosophy of juche, or self-reliance.
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Right next to it hung a cartoon mocking the agreement, which was designed to make it more difficult for Iran to develop a nuclear bomb in exchange for international sanctions relief.
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According to a report, President Donald Trump once suggested that the US could try dropping a nuclear bomb into the eye of an approaching hurricane to... knock it off its course?
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Now, as North Korea carries out a series of provocative missile and nuclear bomb tests, that alliance is straining at a time when both nations may need it more than ever.
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Together its ongoing breaches are eroding the deal's central aim - keeping Iran a year away from being able to obtain enough fissile material for a nuclear bomb if it chose to.
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It depicts major events in recent Chinese history — its first nuclear bomb test, the Hong Kong handover from Britain and the Beijing Olympics, among others — through the eyes of ordinary people.
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Using updated Cold War models of nuclear explosions, Wellerstein&aposs simulator can roughly predict the number of casualties and injuries from a nuclear bomb in a given place, big or small.
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Pompeo said during his confirmation hearing he was open to fixing, rather than blowing apart, the pact, which the West believes is essential to preventing Iran from getting a nuclear bomb.
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The team estimated that such an object could be neutralized at a distance of 13 million kilometers from Earth using a nuclear bomb with at least three megatons of explosive power.
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The cancellation of the drills, adding to the fact that Kim hasn't tested a nuclear bomb or missile since September and November 2017, respectively, means Kim has effectively secured that agreement.
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If you love military or scientific history and don't live in fear of a nuclear holocaust, you can now watch dozens of newly declassified films of U.S. nuclear bomb tests on YouTube.
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Image: Sergio Mascarenhas IFSC-USPA technique originally intended for dating archaeological artifacts has been used to estimate the amount of radiation produced by the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan in 25.
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It has long denied seeking a nuclear bomb but appears to be cranking up enrichment levels gradually as leverage to push the nuclear deal's remaining parties to do more to save it.
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We know, for example, that after the military dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb ever used in combat, Trump boasted that his commanders have "total authorization" to make decisions in the field.
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"The one fact that we have, which has hit our family like a nuclear bomb, is that our Prince, Botham Shem is dead," Ignatius said in a Facebook message to BuzzFeed News.
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Looking for dangerous asteroids now could save a lot of trouble later, when something like a nuclear bomb in space, not a popular idea with any nation, might be the only option.
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Trump said he was prepared to take military action to stop Tehran having a nuclear bomb but left open whether he would sanction the use of force to protect Gulf oil supplies.
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Trump's decision to abandon the deal that restricted Iran's potential pathway to developing a nuclear bomb in return for relief from economic sanctions, angered Tehran, which accuses Washington of breaking its word.
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Comics have always dealt in the hidden good and evil of the world, celebrating the triumphs of everyday heroes over metaphorical monsters (Godzilla emerged as a stand-in for the nuclear bomb).
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BECAUSE AFTER THIS LATEST NUCLEAR BOMB THAT THEY'VE SET OFF, THE LATEST I READ THIS MORNING WAS THAT THE NORTH KOREANS ARE SAYING THAT THIS IS LAUGHABLE, THE IDEA OF ADDITIONAL SANCTIONS.
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The curbs under the nuclear deal were aimed at extending the time Iran would need to produce a nuclear bomb, if it chose to, to a year from roughly 2-3 months.
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The F-117A Nighthawk stealth fighter, experimental unpersoned aerial vehicles, and, most recently, the delivery vehicle of the much-thunkpieced B61-63, a "steerable," variable yield nuclear bomb, have been tested there.
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The arguments are therefore focused on the new cruise missile and a $22027 billion new version of the free-fall nuclear bomb called the B25-12, which will replace four older variants.
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So let's say one of the worst-case scenarios from one of those government models did happen, and somehow a 10 KT nuclear bomb was detonated without the US having advance warning.
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The MOAB, known informally as the "Mother of All Bombs," is the largest non-nuclear bomb in the U.S. arsenal and is the most powerful bomb the U.S. has used in Afghanistan.
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In Afghanistan, the Pentagon dropped its largest non-nuclear bomb on ISIS targets and plans to use its new autonomy under Trump to send more troops to train and assist Afghan soldiers.
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Trump said he was prepared to take military action to stop Iran having a nuclear bomb but left open whether he would approve the use of force to protect Gulf oil supplies.
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The symbolic visit comes amid Obama's family vacation in Hawaii, and seven months after the president's trip to the Japanese city of Hiroshima, where the U.S. dropped a nuclear bomb in 1945.
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He said Paris shared Washington's concerns over Iran's ballistic missile "frenzy" and regional hegemonic ambitions, but that the 2015 nuclear deal was the best chance of stopping Tehran developing a nuclear bomb.
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The U.S. earlier Thursday dropped its largest non-nuclear bomb on Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) targets in Afghanistan, the first time such a weapon has been used in combat.
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Objekt 825 was reportedly able to withstand a direct hit by a nuclear bomb of up to 100 kilotons, roughly five times the power of the bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima.
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The release appeared to signal an effort by Kim to improve the mood for the summit and followed a recent pledge to suspend missile tests and shut a nuclear bomb test site.
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The pact, the signature foreign policy achievement of Trump's predecessor Barack Obama, was designed to prevent Iran developing a nuclear bomb in exchange for lifting most sanctions that had crippled its economy.
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Russia, China, Germany, Britain and France, which all struck the accord with Iran and the United States, see the deal as the best way to stop Iran from developing a nuclear bomb.
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Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, above, compared Iran's supreme leader to Adolf Hitler, and said that his country would acquire a nuclear bomb "as soon as possible" if Iran developed nuclear weapons.
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Trump's decision to abandon the deal that restricted Iran's potential pathway to developing a nuclear bomb in return for relief from economic sanctions angered Tehran, which accuses Washington of breaking its word.
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In May 2018, Trump unilaterally withdrew Washington from a 2015 accord between Iran and major powers under which Tehran curtailed its path to building a nuclear bomb in return for sanctions relief.
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At first residents believed the cause was an earthquake, they said, and only later in the day heard the news from state-run media that North Korea had detonated a nuclear bomb.
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Spoilers ahead for both: "The Strain," after three seasons of presenting the human-vampire war as a somewhat even competition, detonated the story by setting off a nuclear bomb in New York.
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What happens the next time when the aides put on the list the option of dropping a nuclear bomb on Tehran, with the hope that the president will choose a different option?
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It looks as if the North could fit a nuclear bomb the size of a garbage can to one of those missiles, though whether it could survive re-entry is another matter.
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" David Barr Kirtley on nuclear bombs in science fiction: "The first episode ends with the United States dropping a nuclear bomb on this disputed island—an artificial island that China has built.
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China should stop exporting crude oil to North Korea after the reclusive nation defied the international community by testing a nuclear bomb on Sunday despite numerous international trade sanctions, experts told CNBC.
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Negotiated by the Clinton administration, the Agreed Framework froze Pyongyang's plutonium pathway to a nuclear bomb and opened its program up to inspections in exchange for economic and diplomatic concessions from Washington.
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North Korea said it successfully tested a miniaturized hydrogen nuclear bomb on Wednesday, prompting skepticism among experts and officials who doubt Pyongyang has achieved such a major advance in its strike capability.
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Every night, before she falls asleep with a gun under her pillow, she records her memories of the meetings where she supported Burke's plan to drop a nuclear bomb on Homs, Syria.
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As a result, the issue of Iran's nuclear program — whether or not a rogue regime will attempt to pursue a nuclear bomb — is now all of a sudden back on the table.
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And if Trump decided to attack, say, North Korea with a nuclear bomb, it would be hard to stop him from doing so because he has complete authority over the launching process.
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Any such breach would raise already heightened tensions between Iran and U.S. President Donald Trump who has said he is ready to take military action to stop Tehran getting a nuclear bomb.
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Far Cry 5 already took place in a typical small town turned into a warzone, and a few years after a nuclear bomb laid waste to it all, the place feels remarkably similar.
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Hizbullah, the Lebanese Shia militia, is too busy in Syria to risk a second front with Israel, and its paymaster, Iran, is some years away from being able to make a nuclear bomb.
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For that reason, some argue that Washington might have to consider a compromise with Riyadh — a plan that wouldn't curb the country's path to a nuclear bomb — in order to sign a deal.
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Iran's president, Hassan Rouhani, said the country also plans to enrich uranium to higher levels than those allowed under the deal, raising concerns that it is stepping closer to developing a nuclear bomb.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz on Wednesday said North Korea's reported nuclear bomb test underscored the need to reverse the Iranian nuclear deal between the United States and other nations.
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Grouped together as if a single installation are three works from 1985 depicting Mr. Bomb, a cartoon character of a nuclear bomb with human qualities, each paired with Daniel Buren-like striped canvases.
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This dish had long been a fascination of the US military since it had first been discovered after radio waves were refracted from the cloud of a nuclear bomb test in the USSR.
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In Afghanistan, in April, the Pentagon dropped the "Mother of All Bombs," the military's largest non-nuclear bomb, to target a tunnel system used by fighters claiming allegiance to ISIS and al Qaeda.
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North Korea staged its sixth and most powerful nuclear bomb test earlier this month and in July tested long-range intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of reaching at least parts of the U.S. mainland.
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Several hundred feet down, in two cavernous halls, neat rows of centrifuges spin uranium gas to produce fissile isotopes, which could be used for nuclear energy—or, if concentrated enough, a nuclear bomb.
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Last week, CIA Director Mike Pompeo warned that the US should behave as though North Korea is close to the "final step" of bringing 320 million Americans within reach of a nuclear bomb.
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Thanks to Coster-Mullen, I told him, I had the plans for a nuclear bomb in my desk drawer at home — but I lacked the tens of billions of dollars necessary to proliferate.
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Wednesday's Apocalypse premiere episode, "The End," introduced us to two American Horror Story newcomers, Emily (Ash Santos) and Timothy (Kyle Allen), both saved from the nuclear bomb due to their super-special DNA.
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It's a doomsday scenario that some Americans have feared since the Cold War: A nuclear bomb hits the US, setting off a flash of light, a giant orange fireball, and building-toppling shockwaves.
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Those traces were, however, of uranium, the diplomats said — the same element Iran is enriching and one of only two fissile elements with which one can make the core of a nuclear bomb.
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After carrying out live-fire exercises over the weekend, South Korea said it was strengthening its controversial U.S.-made Thaad missile defense system after Pyongyang announced a successful test of a nuclear bomb.
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Scientists say they have successfully carried out an initial test flight for an improved version of a nuclear bomb that has been in the U.S. arsenal for decades, The Associated Press reported Saturday.
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The election was closely watched abroad at a time of tension with North Korea, which is believed to be preparing for a nuclear bomb test and has vowed to test an intercontinental missile.
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But experts said it would probably be easier than the ordeal depicted by Bruce Willis in the 1998 disaster flick Armageddon, when astronauts split apart a Texas-sized asteroid using a nuclear bomb.
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In the Constellation of the Black Widow is the musical equivalent of a nuclear bomb, with all of the destructive power that that entails and with the utter lack of subtlety to match.
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The plutonium manufactured at the site was used in the first nuclear bomb tested at Trinity in New Mexico, as well as in Fat Man, the atomic bomb detonated over Nagasaki in 1945.
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So sometimes I'll just be as calm as a placid lake for six weeks and, suddenly, out of nowhere, there's this roar that comes out, and it is like dropping a nuclear bomb.
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This dangerous combination of shorter breakout times and less transparency would increase pressure on the United States to use military force as the only way to stop Iran from building a nuclear bomb.
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Every day we were reminded that another could start any day; in kindergarten we "ducked" under our desks and "covered" the backs of our necks to shield ourselves against a nuclear bomb attack.
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Those traces were, however, of uranium, the diplomats said - the same element Iran is enriching and one of only two fissile elements with which one can make the core of a nuclear bomb.
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But the other countries that signed it - who think the pact offers the best chance of stopping Iran developing a nuclear bomb - agreed on Monday to keep working to maintain trade with Tehran.
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Even The Global Times, the nationalist, state-run newspaper, said several months ago that China should consider cutting off its oil supplies to North Korea if Mr. Kim detonated a sixth nuclear bomb.
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The notion that detonating a nuclear bomb over the eye of a hurricane could be used to counteract convection currents dates to the Eisenhower era, when it was floated by a government scientist.
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In 2000, he recalled in the journal Nature when he and the others on his staff were asked to assess how the lunar surface and its chemistry would react to a nuclear bomb.
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The heroine, who moves between our world and a world in which the Japanese detonated a nuclear bomb over Los Angeles to win World War II, meets a writer named Philip K. Dick.
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The bombers did "a nuclear bomb dropping drill against major objects" when President Trump and "other U.S. warmongers are crying out for making a preemptive nuclear strike on the North," North Korea said.
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In a statement, a Google spokeswoman said attacks like the nuclear bomb threats were a result of credential stuffing, which occurs when a bad actor uses stolen information to access poorly secured accounts.
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Now that North Korea has shown it has a missile that could reach the US — potentially carrying a nuclear bomb — it's hard to fathom where those millions could go to avoid any danger.
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It&aposs the disaster for which no city is prepared: A nuclear bomb strikes the US, triggering a blinding flash of light, a giant orange fireball, building-toppling shockwaves, and dangerous nuclear fallout.
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Historians, our grandkids and we ourselves will look and ask: What did you do as the Trump/Scaramucci/Bannon administration dropped a nuclear bomb on the basic standards of decency in public life?
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Trump has condemned the deal as too soft on Tehran and would not stop it developing a nuclear bomb, though U.N. nuclear non-proliferation inspectors have repeatedly certified Iranian compliance with its terms.
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The United States dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb ever used in combat — nicknamed the "Mother of All Bombs" — on a series of caves in eastern Afghanistan used by the Islamic State group.
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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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National security experts and North Korea watchers say the reclusive country may test a nuclear bomb on Saturday, the 'Day of the Sun' holiday that marks the birthday of national father Kim Il-sung.
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In a major shift in U.S. foreign policy, Trump said on Friday he might ultimately terminate the 2015 agreement that lifted sanctions in return for Tehran rolling back technologies with nuclear bomb-making potential.
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The incident happened following the September 3, 2017 detonation of a nuclear bomb estimated at around 100 kilotons, which is 10 times stronger than any of the previous five tests conducted by North Korea.
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Trump has threatened to use national security laws to do the same for car imports and has walked back on environmental agreements and an international deal to prevent Iran from building a nuclear bomb.
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The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast, also called the "mother of all bombs" or MOAB for short, is the largest non-nuclear bomb ever used by the US military on the battlefield.
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He wrote them as part of a petition signed by dozens of other scientists who had worked on the Manhattan Project pleading with President Harry Truman not to use the nuclear bomb on Japan.
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"There is no doubt that if these madmen ever got their hands on a nuclear bomb or nuclear material, they would certainly use it to kill as many innocent people as possible," he said.
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If Iran casts off the JCPOA's nuclear constraints, America and Israel will have to choose between the risk of Iran building a nuclear bomb and the dangers of a bombing campaign to stop it.
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The 2015 agreement, signed by the so-called P5+1, lifted sanctions on the Islamic Republic in exchange for curbs on its nuclear program, with the goal of stopping it developing a nuclear bomb.
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Washington (CNN)The US military dropped America's most powerful non-nuclear bomb on ISIS targets in Afghanistan Thursday, the first time this type of weapon has been used in battle, according to US officials.
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Tehran had agreed to curb its uranium enrichment capacity, a potential pathway to a nuclear bomb, and won sanctions relief in return under the accord signed during the administration of Trump's predecessor Barack Obama.
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At its peak, this group had about 3,000 fighters, but US and Afghan National Army attacks, including one that used the world's largest non-nuclear bomb, have whittled their numbers down to about 300.
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Obama's historic visit In May, Obama became the first sitting US President to visit Hiroshima, where the US dropped a nuclear bomb in 1945 that killed more than 100,000 Japanese men, women and children.
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A satellite launch is more benign than a nuclear bomb, but officials say there is cause for concern, because the same technology for rockets could be used to further development of intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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"That's not what Israel thinks," Pence said of the contention that the deal would stop Iran from developing a nuclear bomb, noting that Kaine, a Virginia senator, skipped Netanyahu's speech before Congress last year.
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On Thursday, it dropped a $16 million "mother of all bombs"—reportedly the largest non-nuclear bomb in the United States's arsenal—on an alleged ISIS hideout in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province, which borders Pakistan.
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The widely supported Iran sanctions inflicted enough pain on Iran to produce an agreement that, while far from perfect, froze, if not rolled back, Iran's nuclear development programs before it developed a nuclear bomb.
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Earlier this year, Kim set a year-end deadline for Washington to take a new approach, raising concerns that North Korea could return to nuclear bomb and long-range missile testing suspended since 2017.
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About 66 million years ago, an asteroid plummeted through Earth's atmosphere and crashed into the sea floor, creating an explosion over 6,500 times more powerful than the nuclear bomb the US dropped on Hiroshima.
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The Iranians have cut down on the number of centrifuges, limited their stockpile of enriched uranium, and done many other things that have made it much harder for them to build a nuclear bomb.
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" A few hours after the missile test, two U.S. B-1B Lancer strategic bombers out of Guam flew right up to the North's border on what North Korea called "a nuclear bomb dropping drill.
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Some analysts worry that in a worst-case scenario, Iran could return to its push for a nuclear bomb, after stepping back from some of its obligations under the nuclear deal in recent months.
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The three major U.S. stock indexes were lower Tuesday as tensions between the U.S. and North Korea sent jitters down Wall Street after Pyongyang on Sunday set off its most powerful nuclear bomb yet.
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The Trump administration dropped what it boasted was the biggest non-nuclear bomb on the group's hide-outs on April 13; a militant leader and two American soldiers have been killed in the operations.
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"Arms" is not defined in the Second Amendment itself, but would anyone seriously argue that it means your neighbor can store plutonium in his garage and make a nuclear bomb to protect his family?
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North Korea says it has taken steps to halt its nuclear development, including placing a moratorium on missile and nuclear bomb testing, demolishing its only known nuclear test site, and dismantling a rocket facility.
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Because the nuclear deal has provisions that expire starting within a decade, they fear that Iran will eventually emerge from the deal economically stronger, militarily more adventurous and determined to build a nuclear bomb.
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The blast comes less than three weeks after the U.S. military dropped its largest non-nuclear bomb on an ISIS tunnel complex in eastern Afghanistan, killing at least 90 fighters, according to Afghan authorities.
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The nuclear deal that Iran signed on to in 2015 heavily restricts Iran's ability to make the materials required for a nuclear bomb, but crucial restrictions in the agreement begin to expire around 2030.
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In the real world, a country develops or obtains nuclear weapons partly as a deterrent, meaning it makes another country think twice before attacking because no one wants a nuclear bomb used against it.
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The United States and allied nations had condemned North Korea's plan because they consider its satellite program to be a sort of cover for developing an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of delivering a nuclear bomb.
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The Pentagon has released a video of its deployment of the United States' largest non-nuclear bomb — the "mother of all bombs" (MOAB) — on an ISIS compound in Afghanistan that killed at least 36 fighters.
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In response to an audience question, Garcia said the agency has also considered scenarios where a nuclear bomb, a cyberattack, a coordinated electromagnetic pulse, and biological weapons all hit the US at the same time.
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Washington has ratcheted up pressure on Iran, saying it wants to prevent Tehran developing a nuclear bomb, rein in its ballistic missile program and end what the it calls Iranian meddling in the Middle East.
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Iran has rolled back a number of its commitments concerning uranium enrichment and stockpiling, steps involved in approaching nuclear bomb-making capability, and tensions between Washington and Tehran have skyrocketed, raising fears of inadvertent conflict.
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PC, PS4, Xbox One - February 15th New Dawn takes place in the same fictional take on Montana as Far Cry 24, but things are slightly different: the detonation of a nuclear bomb will do that.
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Speaking after Americans who had been imprisoned and freed by Iran had left the country, Obama said Iran now would not "get its hands on a nuclear bomb" and the planet would be more secure.
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An increasing stockpile and higher enrichment closes the estimated one-year window Iran would need to produce enough material for a nuclear bomb, something Iran denies it wants but the nuclear deal sought to prevent.
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Tehran has already given the country's nuclear agency the green light to breach its internationally-agreed stockpile limits on low-enriched uranium, a step that technically can bring Iran closer to having a nuclear bomb.
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Pyongyang said it detonated a hydrogen bomb, calling it a "perfect success" that was reportedly 10 times more powerful than the nuclear bomb that was dropped over Hiroshima at the end of World War II.
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North Korea fired a missile that flew over Japan's northern Hokkaido far out into the Pacific Ocean, South Korean and Japanese officials said, deepening tension after Pyongyang's recent test of its most powerful nuclear bomb.
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The move dismantled part of President Barack Obama's legacy and upset U.S. allies who were party to the agreement, which was designed to restrict Tehran's pathway to a nuclear bomb in exchange for sanctions relief.
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The U.S. focus on North Korea has been sharpened by dozens of North Korean missile launches - the most recent of which was on Monday - and two nuclear bomb tests since the beginning of last year.
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Tension in the region has risen since North Korea carried out two nuclear bomb tests last year and two intercontinental ballistic missile tests in July, tests it often conducts to coincide with important national dates.
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Alternatively, their initiative will acquire a putrid odor if critics are right and it turns out the White House has been hoodwinked into lifting sanctions on Iran and it eventually produces a nuclear bomb anyway.
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In Season 1, the show deviated from the book to reveal that the Mayday package — which is treated like a nuclear bomb — is nothing more or less than a stack of letters with women's stories.
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Although he couldn't go into details due to the implications of the experiment for national security, Cuneo said it had to do with simulating the conditions at the core of a nuclear bomb after detonation.
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The move dismantled part of President Barack Obama's legacy and upset U.S. allies who were party to the agreement, which was designed to restrict Tehran's pathway to a nuclear bomb in exchange for sanctions relief.
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For over 10 years, we watched Kim expand his arsenal of nuclear weapons, extend the range and number of ballistic missiles, sell advanced weapons technology to Iran and build a nuclear bomb factory in Syria.
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"Monsters did this," Blazkowicz tells Grace in her hideout at the top of a delipidated Empire State Building, overlooking a New York City destroyed by a nuclear bomb, discussing what Nazis have done to America.
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After all, the president wasn't shy about using the military's most powerful non-nuclear bomb, the GBU-220006/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb, in Nangarhar province in April 2202, reportedly killing nearly a hundred.
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Mr. Netanyahu complained of Palestinian children being "indoctrinated with hate" by leaders who talked of detonating a nuclear bomb in Israel, slitting the throats of Israelis and welcoming every drop of blood spilled in Jerusalem.
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Despite Trump's decision to withdraw, the poll showed 61% of Americans still supported the 2015 deal between Iran and world powers to curb Iran's potential pathway to a nuclear bomb in return for sanctions relief.
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The Saudis want to reserve that option in case Iran, which is already doing both, choses to build a nuclear bomb, a step the crown prince has promised Saudi Arabia will immediately seek to match.
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President Donald Trump's strategy of exerting "maximum pressure" against Iran is faltering as Tehran appears emboldened to stand up against the West and takes steps closer to building a nuclear bomb, former US officials warn.
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But comments the crown prince made that Saudi Arabia would develop a nuclear bomb "as soon as possible" if Iran does are raising red flags for lawmakers who were already skeptical of the kingdom's intentions.
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The deal, agreed by the United States, France, Britain, Germany, Russia, China and Iran, sought to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear bomb in return for the removal of sanctions that had crippled its economy.
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And I remember a couple of times that fliers would be posted on the telephone poles inviting the entire town outside to watch the huge mushroom cloud that would follow the nuclear bomb testing nearby.
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The Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb (MOAB), the largest non-nuclear bomb in the American arsenal, was used for the first time in combat Thursday on a series of ISIS tunnels in remote eastern Afghanistan.
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It would be "the trade equivalent of a nuclear bomb," said Kevin J. Wolf, a partner at the law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld and an assistant secretary of commerce under President Barack Obama.
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Among other observations: North Korea is "unlikely to give up" all of its nuclear stockpiles and Iran is not actively trying to make a nuclear bomb — both direct contradictions of President Trump's foreign policy tenets.
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As with simulations of Earth's changing climate or what happens when a nuclear bomb detonates in a city, the goal here is to make an informed prediction—within a range of uncertainty—about the future.
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The single mountain under which North Korea most likely conducted its five most recent nuclear bomb tests, including the latest and most powerful on Sunday, could be at risk of collapsing, a Chinese scientist said.
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Although he also warned Iran against restarting production of the material necessary to make a nuclear bomb — as the clerical government in Tehran has threatened — Mr. Trump made clear he was ready for diplomatic talks.
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But watching Iran and the United States head for a possible military escalation, they are trying at least to avoid an outcome in which Iran moves down the North Korean road toward a nuclear bomb.
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The revised proposal would have reportedly called for North Korea's nuclear program to simply be on the table at talks but was rejected by Pyongyang days before its latest nuclear-bomb test on Jan. 6.
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Bolton said that Kim was "jiving the Americans" and that, instead of getting closer to denuclearization, North Korea was getting closer to building a nuclear bomb that could target US cities, according to The Post.
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Hours before he gave an interview on Wednesday to Voice of America — which Mr. Guo had said would include a "nuclear bomb" of allegations — China asked Interpol, the global police organization, to arrest the billionaire.
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" Activists with Dust for Glitter plan on staging a production in the context of the occupation entitled "B61-12," a title that refers to a nuclear bomb, calling the occupation a "transmedial and mimetic theatrical production.
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The February launch, which North Korea said put a satellite into orbit hundreds of kilometers above Earth, came just weeks after Pyongyang carried out a nuclear bomb test, both in defiance of U.N. resolutions and sanctions.
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The accord, signed in Vienna by the United States, France, Britain, Germany, China, Russia and Iran, lifted sanctions in exchange for Tehran limiting its nuclear programme, designed to prevent the country from obtaining a nuclear bomb.
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Unless America and Iran can find a way to talk again, Iran will creep back towards the ability to make a nuclear bomb; and Mr Trump will face growing pressure from his hawks to bomb Iran.
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Tensions between the United States and North Korea have been heightened by dozens of North Korean missile launches and two nuclear bomb tests since the beginning of last year in defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions.
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The show is loosely anchored around Josh's quest to find his would-be girlfriend Sam Dean (Sophie Simnett), the affable British classmate he hasn't seen since the nuclear bomb detonated during their school's homecoming football game.
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Relations with North Korea got off to a bad start when it set off its third nuclear bomb days before Ms Park took office, and stayed that way (this year alone it has tested two more).
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Uranium refined to 20 percent fissile purity is beyond the 5 percent normally required to fuel civilian nuclear power plants, although short of highly enriched, or 80 to 90 percent, purity needed for a nuclear bomb.
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As Kim Jong Un hurled ballistic missiles into the seas around him, having recently tested a nuclear bomb (the sixth), hawks serving President Donald Trump seemed to be pushing to give North Korea a bloody nose.
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The accord, signed in Vienna by the United States, France, Britain, Germany, China, Russia and Iran, lifted sanctions in exchange for Tehran limiting its nuclear program, designed to prevent the country from obtaining a nuclear bomb.
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In an interview in March on CBS's "60 Minutes" Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said the country wasn't interested in developing weapons but would develop nuclear capability should Iran ever develop a working nuclear bomb.
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Not only has Trump used that terminology but he has also used the largest non-nuclear bomb in the American arsenal -- one that neither Obama nor George W. Bush chose to deploy -- against ISIS in Afghanistan.
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Adding to the nervousness, the U.S. dropped the largest ever non-nuclear bomb in Afghanistan during market hours Thursday, and on Thursday night, NBC News reported that U.S. officials were planning a possible pre-emptive strike.
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North Korea fired a second missile over Japan far out into the Pacific Ocean on Friday, South Korean and Japanese officials said, deepening tensions after Pyongyang's recent test of its sixth and most powerful nuclear bomb.
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North Korea said the rocket was carrying a satellite, but its neighbours and the United States denounced the launch as a missile test, conducted in defiance of U.N. sanctions just weeks after a nuclear bomb test.
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MOSCOW — The Lebedev Physics Institute in Moscow helped the Soviet Union detonate its first nuclear bomb, figured out how to build a hydrogen bomb and has stood for decades in the vanguard of Russian scientific achievement.
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Before sanctions can be lifted against Iran, international inspectors need to certify that Iran has dismantled thousands of centrifuges, reduced its stockpile of uranium and taken other steps to cut off access to a nuclear bomb.
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Hailed by Obama as key to stopping Iran from building a nuclear bomb, the deal lifted economic sanctions in exchange for Tehran limiting its nuclear program but Trump has argued that Obama negotiated a bad deal.
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The chamber's Republican leaders did not bring the measure up for a vote in 2015, but North Korea's announcement on Wednesday it had tested a powerful nuclear bomb left lawmakers clamoring for a strong U.S. response.
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They wrote that it's impossible to disrupt a hurricane with a nuclear bomb, since we don't have powerful enough bombs and because the explosives wouldn't shift the surrounding air pressure for more than a split second.
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The Iranians say they will undo the steps they've taken — steps that bring them closer to nuclear bomb-making capability — if all parties to the deal abide by it and sanctions on the country are lifted.
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North Korea said the rocket was carrying a satellite, but its neighbors and the United States denounced the launch as a missile test, conducted in defiance of U.N. sanctions just weeks after a nuclear bomb test.
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"The cap is the nuclear bomb, and the stem is all the dirt that was swept up into it," he explains, describing the iconic mushroom shape produced by a ground blast like the one at Trinity.
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Siegfried S. Hecker, an American nuclear expert at Stanford University, said the latest nuclear test by the North must be viewed with great concern, given what he called its growing ability to secure nuclear bomb fuel.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon — Saudi Arabia's powerful crown prince has compared the supreme leader of Iran to Adolf Hitler, and said that his country would acquire a nuclear bomb "as soon as possible" if Iran developed nuclear weapons.
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The fighters in Deh Bala, next to Achin district where the U.S. military dropped its largest non-nuclear bomb last year, were funding themselves by illegal logging and talc mining, as well as exploiting local villagers.
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This explains why North Korea has invested so many resources, and been willing to accept crushing international sanctions, in order to develop a nuclear bomb and intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) that could hit the US mainland.
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North Korea is "unlikely to give up" all of its nuclear stockpiles and Iran is not "currently undertaking" the activity needed to make a nuclear bomb, according to a new American intelligence assessment of global threats.
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Mr. Trump has called the accord the "worst deal ever" and argued that it would not deter the Iranians from eventually building a nuclear bomb, despite Iran's pledges that it would never seek such a weapon.
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This film had the most audacious plot of all of them: A nuclear bomb is detonated inside Baltimore, and everyone thinks it's the work of the new Russian leader, President Nemerov (Mance Rayder, er, Ciarán Hinds).
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Another problem is that even if someone decided that detonating a nuclear bomb in a hurricane was a smart idea, which, again, it is not, a nuke would not be powerful enough to have any impact.
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North Korea's accompanying warning that it might test a nuclear bomb over the Pacific Ocean added fresh urgency to an administration debate over options for a pre-emptive strike if preparations for a launch are detected.
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Anyone suggesting a "deal or war" dichotomy was below the belt should recall phrases like "paving Iran's way" to a nuclear bomb and the accusation that the deal was the equivalent of launching a new Holocaust.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has warned he could take an unspecified "new path" next year, raising fears this could mean a return to the nuclear bomb and long-range missile testing suspended since 2017.
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To this day we argue whether images of a nuclear bomb detonation juxtaposed with a little girl picking flowers or an African-American man in a revolving prison door were outside the rules of political engagement.
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The Nazis had developed the nuclear bomb first; the Allies had lost the war; and America was occupied by Germany in the East and Japan in the West, with a buffer zone in the Rocky Mountains.
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North Korea formally announced a freeze in intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) and nuclear bomb tests in April last year and Trump stressed that the missiles fired were not of a kind that could threaten the United States.
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The description of the weapon as "tactical" appeared to rule out larger strategic weapons, such as a ballistic missile or a nuclear bomb, which North Korea demonstrated until last year, raising fears of a new Korean war.
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When asked Thursday about the U.S. dropping its largest non-nuclear bomb on an ISIS target in rural Afghanistan, President Donald Trump praised the U.S. military as the "greatest" in the world and celebrated its recent conduct.
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There is little scientific evidence to verify that North Korea has perfected the science of creating a nuclear bomb small enough to fit on a ballistic missile, let alone to withstand the physics of atmospheric re-entry.
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South Korean President Moon Jae-in told Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Wednesday that the situation on the Korean peninsula could become unpredictable if Pyongyang did not halt its "provocative actions" after its latest nuclear bomb test.
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Her central role as secretary of state in putting Iran on the path toward a nuclear bomb and turning Libya into a playground for radical Islamic terrorism shows her terrible judgment in matters of America's national security.
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The five other world powers that signed the 2015 accord with Iran - France, Germany, Britain, China and Russia - have been trying to salvage it, saying it offers the best chance to stop Iran developing a nuclear bomb.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The location and nature of seismic activity reported in North Korea is consistent with previous nuclear tests there, U.S. government sources said on Wednesday after North Korea said it successfully tested a hydrogen nuclear bomb.
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The rocket launch, on the eve of Sunday's U.S. Super Bowl, when tens of millions of Americans tune in for the annual pro football championship game, came just weeks after North Korea conducted a nuclear bomb test.
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Now Mr Trump seems obsessed with reneging on the deal, which would weaken the curbs on Iran's ability to make a nuclear bomb, and is doing little (apart from a few more sanctions) to contain Iranian influence.
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Daenerys's rampage was something new for her: the intentional mass murder of civilians and destruction of an entire city, the Westerosi equivalent of dropping a nuclear bomb on a civilian population after the war was already won.
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Another member of the team, Dr. Kayla Iacovino, a volcanologist at Arizona State University, says a nuclear bomb setting off a volcano is plausible in a general sense, but the science is still in its early stages.
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Removal of the core from the Arak reactor will largely eliminate its ability to yield nuclear bomb-grade plutonium, and was one of the toughest issues to resolve in the long nuclear negotiations with the six powers.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street stocks fell on Tuesday, Treasury yields recorded their steepest one-day drop since May and the dollar slipped as investors shied away from risk following North Korea's biggest nuclear bomb test yet.
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Alomar hits this note again in "Human Malice," where an argument between a nuclear bomb and a grenade over which is more evil is ended when human malice intervenes and points out that it created them both.
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North Korea fired a missile that flew over Japan's northern Hokkaido far out into the Pacific Ocean on Friday, South Korean and Japanese officials said, deepening tension after Pyongyang's recent test of its most powerful nuclear bomb.
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The U.S. military dropped a massive non-nuclear bomb on ISIS targets in Afghanistan Thursday, using the weapon for the first time ever partly to send the enemy a message, according to a U.S. Central Command spokesman.
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The restrictions on uranium enrichment accepted by Iran under the deal were aimed at extending the time it would need to produce a nuclear bomb, if it chose to, to a year from roughly 2-3 months.
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Sanctions will not lift until the United Nations' nuclear watchdog certifies that Iran has taken a series of steps to make it more difficult to build a nuclear bomb, which is expected as soon as this weekend.
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Basically turning it from a massive storm with wind and rain into a massive storm with radioactive wind and rain that's tens of times larger and millions of times more powerful than any nuclear bomb in history.
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Trump withdrew the United States a year ago from the deal between Iran and global powers, under which Tehran curbed its uranium enrichment capacity, a potential pathway to a nuclear bomb, and won sanctions relief in return.
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You can see this dynamic at work in part right now, as the North Korean response to Trump's "fire and fury" comment was to fire a missile over Japan and to test its largest nuclear bomb ever.
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Yet by the time Hecker arrived, the cooling tower was no longer needed because North Korea had built the centrifuges, meaning they had developed an alternative way to build a nuclear bomb without the U.S. finding out.
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A news analysis article on Monday about the motives of Kim Jong-un, North Korea's leader, who oversaw the detonation of the country's sixth nuclear bomb over the weekend, misspelled the given name of the Chinese president.
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But comments the crown prince made this week that Saudi Arabia would develop a nuclear bomb "as soon as possible" if Iran does are raising red flags for lawmakers who were already skeptical of the kingdom's intentions.
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The New York Times was mocked by social media users on Friday after the paper tweeted out a question asking which was the greater threat to Guam: a nuclear bomb threat from North Korea or climate change?
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Will the new Trump continue to describe NATO as "obsolete," promise to order troops to commit acts of torture, and speak about the arguments in favor of Saudi Arabia, South Korea and Japan obtaining the nuclear bomb?
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Tension in the region has risen since North Korea carried out two nuclear bomb tests last year and two intercontinental ballistic missile tests in July, tests that the North often conducts to coincide with important national dates.
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A strange sense of unease enveloped me, despite the years of war and despite being a journalist, as I watched my country being featured as the dehumanized landscape where the biggest non-nuclear bomb had been exploded.
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But even more compelling was his role in a top-secret study for the Air Force that asked a simple question: How about blowing up a nuclear bomb on or near the moon and seeing what happens?
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READ: Now Europe is calling out Iran over its nuclear program Under the 2015 deal, which was struck to prevent Iran developing a nuclear bomb, Tehran accepted restrictions on its nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief.
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The Saudi pursuit of nuclear energy has long made many observers nervous, but it grabbed headlines last weekend after Bin Salman told CBS News that if Iran were to build a nuclear bomb, so would Saudi Arabia.
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But Saudi Arabia has resisted agreeing to strict nonproliferation restrictions, known as the gold standard, that would block it from enriching uranium and reprocessing spent fuel, both of which are potential pathways to making a nuclear bomb.
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But it insists that any further actions it can take — including the permanent destruction of the Yongbyon nuclear complex, a key facility for producing nuclear bomb fuel — will come only if the United States takes corresponding actions.
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In theory, the so-called "Iran deal" was supposed to protect the United States and our allies from the lunacy of an Iranian nuclear bomb, a weapon that will only endanger the survival of the Iranian regime.
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" West brought up love and hate again on the show in relation to Trump, saying that "we can defuse this nuclear bomb of hate that we're in as a society by thinking of everyone as our family.
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The notification came after warnings to North Korea advising against a launch from the United States and allied nations, which consider such a step a cover for developing an intercontinental ballistic missile that can deliver a nuclear bomb.
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The 3.67 percent enrichment and 202-kg stockpile limit on uranium, and the 130-tonne cap on heavy water, aim to ensure that Iran does not amass enough material of sufficient fissile purity to produce a nuclear bomb.
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That was by design: The Obama administration knew that to get Iran to agree to curb its path to a nuclear bomb, the US would have to give up a lot more than simply lifting a few sanctions.
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North Korea fired a missile that flew over Japan's northern Hokkaido far out into the Pacific Ocean earlier on Friday, South Korean and Japanese officials said, deepening tension after Pyongyang's recent test of its most powerful nuclear bomb.
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Various governments have expressed skepticism that it was in fact a hydrogen bomb, and guessed that it was perhaps a less powerful traditional nuclear bomb, but North Korea will amp up the hydrogen bomb propaganda to its people.
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"This is an ad from a candidate who supports putting Iran on the path to a nuclear bomb, and has no problem with her mentor, Harry Reid, blocking funding for our troops in the US Senate," Baluta said.
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It was designed to prevent Iran developing a nuclear bomb in return for the removal of sanctions that had crippled its economy, not least by Washington threatening to penalize businesses anywhere in the world that traded with Iran.
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At one point in his Oval Office remarks, Trump referred to dropping America's largest non-nuclear bomb on Afghanistan in 2017, and said that dropping more of them would be the "easy solution" to ending the conflict there.
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"North Korean leader Kim Jong-un called for urgent talks with South Korea to make the Winter Olympics next month a success even while repeating claims that he could strike the U.S. with a nuclear bomb," per Bloomberg.
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North Korea says its tests proves it has a rocket that could carry a nuclear bomb and that the U.S. mainland was in its range as well as the American military base on the Pacific island of Guam.
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North Korea said the bombers conducted "a nuclear bomb dropping drill against major objects" in its territory at a time when Trump and "other U.S. warmongers are crying out for making a preemptive nuclear strike" on the North.
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North Korea fired a missile on Friday that flew over Japan's northern Hokkaido far out into the Pacific Ocean, South Korean and Japanese officials said, further ratcheting up tensions after Pyongyang's recent test of a powerful nuclear bomb.
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In 1967, the Atomic Energy Commission, working with the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory and the El Paso Natural Gas Company, exploded a twenty-nine-kiloton nuclear bomb, dubbed Gasbuggy, four thousand feet below the surface, near Farmington, New Mexico.
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Yet Trump offered no details, of how he will prevent Tehran resuming its race towards a nuclear bomb if the deal collapses, or how he will martial support of most US allies who strongly back the Iran deal.
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Although the Yongbyon complex has been used to produce nuclear bomb fuel, North Korea is believed to have other fuel-making facilities elsewhere, as well as fissile materials, nuclear warheads and missiles that it keeps in secret locations.
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A core objective of the 2015 nuclear deal — struck between Iran, the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China — was to keep Iran at least one year from developing enough fissile material to construct a nuclear bomb.
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And in 1990, it opened its Lop Nur test site to Pakistan and secretly let the country test its first nuclear bomb there, according to "The Nuclear Express," a book by two veterans of the American nuclear program.
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As Iran heads for a possible military escalation with the United States, the leaders of Britain, France and Germany are using risky tactics to prevent Tehran from developing a nuclear bomb, writes our chief diplomatic correspondent in Europe.
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Sunday's underground test was estimated to have an explosive yield of 120 kilotons, compared with the 15 kiloton yield of the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima during World War II. It also caused strong tremors in North Korea.
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The secretary of state also improbably claimed that the Obama administration "kicked off" a war with Iran with its deal that froze Iran's enrichment activity and halted what the US says was a march towards a nuclear bomb.
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But that declaration means Congress gets 60 days to decide whether to reimpose sanctions, a move that would likely kill the agreement and, the deal's supporters warn, put Iran back on the path to building a nuclear bomb.
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"The equivalent of a nuclear bomb fell on our country when the president said what he said this week," Representative Anna G. Eshoo, Democrat of California, said Wednesday as her House subcommittee began pushing through health care legislation.
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A deal signed in 2015 to prevent Iran from building a nuclear bomb came closer to collapse after its three European signatories (Britain, France and Germany) said they were concerned that Iran was "not meeting several of its commitments".
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He'd been talking on the phone for about hour, and I hadn't been able to ask a single question about the project that has consumed a quarter century of his life—the reverse-engineering of America's first nuclear bomb.
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Uranium refined to 20 percent fissile purity is well beyond the 5 percent normally required to fuel civilian nuclear power plants, although still well short of highly enriched, or 80 to 90 percent, purity needed for a nuclear bomb.
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RELATED: Obama's visit to Japan goes off-script Obama said Thursday he hoped to mark Hiroshima as a history-altering moment -- the U.S. is the only country to have ever used a nuclear bomb -- that humanity must avoid repeating.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said on Friday the world would stand together against North Korea after the country fired a missile that flew over Japan into the Pacific Ocean, ratcheting up tensions after Pyongyang's test of a powerful nuclear bomb.
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After all, the series-ender has to deal with the Shepherds' plan to assassinate Claire Hale (Robin Wright, who directed the episode), Claire's plan to possibly drop a nuclear bomb to stave off a terrorist attack, and Claire's pregnancy.
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Several of the main items curbed under the deal, designed to lengthen the time Iran would need to build a nuclear bomb if it ever chose to do so, were verified shortly before U.S. sanctions were reimposed on Nov.
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"What we've also seen on the part of North Koreans is an apparent willingness to accept international isolation," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Wednesday, pointing out that North Korea already had a nuclear bomb when Obama took office.
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Now, with North Korea threatening war and a new US intelligence finding that Pyongyang has succeeded in miniaturizing a nuclear bomb, a crisis has arrived, and President Donald Trump has yet to name a US ambassador to South Korea.
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Under the deal, 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 that the West suspected was aimed at creating a nuclear bomb.
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Pence said on Monday the world had seen Trump's resolve in the past two weeks, with a U.S. missile attack on a Syrian airfield and the dropping of a powerful non-nuclear bomb on Islamic State fighters in Afghanistan.
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Dungeon master Mitch McConnell, who led the way in the Obama years by violating norm after norm in the Senate, then made good on his threats to do away with the filibuster altogether, dropping a nuclear bomb on it.
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The theory, known as the Compton effect after physicist Arthur Compton, is that photons of electromagnetic energy from something like the gamma blast from a nuclear bomb can knock loose electrons from oxygen and nitrogen atoms in the atmosphere.
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There should be no disagreement between Republicans and Democrats — or between the United States and other countries — when it comes to measures to prevent terrorists from ever getting and using a nuclear bomb or sabotaging a major nuclear facility.
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The maximum fissile purity to which it has enriched so far remains 4.5%, above the deal's 3.67% cap but still well below the 20% Iran has achieved before and the 90% required for the core of a nuclear bomb.
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When The Hill published Warren's criticism last month of Trump's decision to drop America's largest non-nuclear bomb in Afghanistan, the White House press office quickly responded with a rebuttal — an unusual level of attention for a single senator.
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A top North Korean diplomat on Tuesday warned his country was ready to send "more gift packages" to the United States as world powers struggled for a response to the country's sixth and largest nuclear bomb test on Sunday.
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The lone member of Congress to vote against the Afghanistan War in 22019 is calling for Congress to come back in session and repeal that war authorization after the military dropped its largest non-nuclear bomb in the country.
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The sanctions have dismantled part of former U.S. president Barack Obama's legacy and upset U.S. allies who were party to the 2015 deal, which was designed to restrict Tehran's pathway to a nuclear bomb in exchange for sanctions relief.
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But there was more to Kim's New Year's Day speech than his threat to strike anywhere in the US with a nuclear bomb, and it could signal a major change in the Trump administration's nuclear standoff with North Korea.
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North Korea has pledged to dismantle its Yongbyon nuclear complex, a center for producing nuclear bomb fuel, and take other actions, but will do so only if Washington takes "corresponding" steps, like easing sanctions and signing a peace declaration.
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FRONT PAGE A news analysis article on Monday about the motives of Kim Jong-un, North Korea's leader, who oversaw the detonation of the country's sixth nuclear bomb over the weekend, misspelled the given name of the Chinese president.
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Kim said recently there were no longer grounds for Pyongyang to be bound by a self-declared moratorium on intercontinental ballistic missile and nuclear bomb testing and that a "new strategic weapon" would be introduced in the near future.
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North Korea fired a missile that flew over Japan's northern Hokkaido far out into the Pacific Ocean on Friday, South Korean and Japanese officials said, further ratcheting up tensions after Pyongyang's recent test of its most powerful nuclear bomb.
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By visiting Pearl Harbor, Mr. Abe will in effect be reciprocating a historic trip Mr. Obama made in May to Hiroshima, where the United States dropped a nuclear bomb at the end of the war with Japan in 1945.
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The nuclear issue was vividly real to Mr. de Brum: As a boy, in 29, he had witnessed from a fishing boat a test of what was then the most powerful nuclear bomb ever developed by the United States.
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KCNA said on Sunday that Kim threw a banquet to laud the scientists and top military and party officials who contributed to the nuclear bomb test, topped with an art performance and a photo session with the leader himself.
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"Equity markets in Europe are in the red today as tensions surrounding North Korea were heightened again on the back of the nuclear bomb test carried out by the regime over the weekend", said David Madden from CMC Markets.
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That cap is one of many restrictions imposed by the deal that were aimed at extending the time Iran would need to produce a nuclear bomb, if it chose to, to a year from roughly two to three months.
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"Kim Yo-jong from the North was a nuclear bomb with a smile," a conservative newspaper columnist wrote, lamenting the Moon government's treatment of a member of a family condemned by the United Nations for widespread human rights violations.
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Speaking alongside Hwang, Pence said the world had witnessed Trump's resolve in the past two weeks, which saw a U.S. missile attack on a Syrian airfield and the dropping of a powerful non-nuclear bomb on Islamic State in Afghanistan.
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Everyone in this episode was worried about the blunt-force terror of a nuclear bomb — whether in a literal sense, as in The Day After, or through whatever misstep could eventually turn the FBI onto the Jennings once and for all.
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Iran's stock of so-called heavy water, a moderator used in a type of reactor that can produce plutonium, a potential nuclear bomb fuel, stood at 114.4 metric tonnes, below a 130-tonne limit agreed by the parties to the deal.
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The three Iranian-Americans left Tehran on Sunday under a prisoner swap following the lifting of most international sanctions on Iran under a deal that President Barack Obama said had cut off every path for Tehran to obtain a nuclear bomb.
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It may be possible to sabotage a nuclear bomb by hacking its secondary and tertiary guidance systems—a tactic the US may have used on North Korea's missiles, according to Schilling—but there's little chance that rogue agents could launch nukes.
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He would not say whether Trump personally ordered the use of the largest non-nuclear bomb ever dropped today in Afghanistan, or explain why the president had flip-flopped on labeling China a currency manipulator and supporting the Export/Import Bank.
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Increasing activity by China's rapidly modernizing military has boosted tension in East Asia since the start of the year, as North Korea persists with ballistic missile and nuclear bomb tests that have stoked fears in Japan, the United States and elsewhere.
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But four years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Soviets tested their own nuclear bomb, and the race was on for more powerful bombs, for better strike capability, for the ability to annihilate the other side before it could return fire.
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" Bird Box also stars John Malkovich, Jackie Weaver, Moonlight's Trevante Rhodes, Get Out's Lil Rel Howery, rapper Machine Gun Kelly and Patti Cake$ breakout Danielle Macdonald — which made Bier feel like she was working with a "kind of creative nuclear bomb.
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The Republican president gave Congress 60 days to decide whether to re-impose economic sanctions on Iran, lifted under the pact in exchange for scaling down a program the West fears was aimed at building a nuclear bomb, something Tehran denies.
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Whatever Trump decides, France, Britain and Germany will stick to the deal because it is the best way to stop Iran developing a nuclear bomb, French Foreign Minister Yean-Yves Le Drian said on Monday after meeting his German counterpart.
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Hawks like John Bolton, Mr Trump's national security adviser, retort that if Iran wants war, that is what it will get—especially if it shows signs of dashing for a nuclear bomb, which could trigger disastrous proliferation in the Middle East.
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For added realism, the plane was equipped with a real Mark IV nuclear bomb, but instead of being packed with plutonium, the bomb was loaded with lead and TNT (to be clear, the bomb did not contain any nuclear material).
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I mean, if I came to Google or somebody out here and said hey, we have really hard information—and here it is—that there is a nuclear bomb that has been placed in the center of New York City.
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Trump has given Congress 60 days to decide whether to reimpose economic sanctions on Iran, lifted under the pact in exchange for the scaling down of a program the West fears was aimed at building a nuclear bomb, something Tehran denies.
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SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea said it successfully tested a powerful nuclear bomb on Wednesday, drawing threats of further sanctions even though the United States and weapons experts voiced doubts the device was as advanced as the isolated nation claimed.
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LONDON, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Britain said on Friday the world would stand together against North Korea after the country fired a missile that flew over Japan into the Pacific Ocean, ratcheting up tensions after Pyongyang's test of a powerful nuclear bomb.
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The country said on Monday that it had started using a new set of advanced centrifuges — a move that crosses yet another limitation of the 2015 nuclear agreement and brings Iran closer to being able to build a nuclear bomb.
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The country said on Monday that it had started using a new set of advanced centrifuges — a move that crosses yet another limit of the 2015 nuclear agreement and brings Iran closer to being able to build a nuclear bomb.
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The Republican president gave Congress 60 days to decide whether to reimpose economic sanctions on Iran, lifted under the pact in exchange for scaling down a program the West fears was aimed at building a nuclear bomb, something Tehran denies.
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Source: Citigroup Trump's advisors have said there is no evidence that Iran violated the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the deal that suspended sanctions on Iran and is seen as a way to keep the country from building a nuclear bomb.
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French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday said he did not know whether U.S. President Trump would stick with a 2015 nuclear deal that many in the West see as the best hope of preventing Iran from getting a nuclear bomb.
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The Trump administration's immediate concerns about Iran are not only over its ability to build a nuclear bomb but over Tehran's ballistic missile program and its funding and military supplies to its proxies and other allies in the Middle East.
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Keeping these limitations in place until 2045 would reduce both the risks of an Iranian nuclear bomb and the likelihood that the Saudis and others will say they should be allowed to have the same nuclear infrastructure as the Iranians.
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North Korea last tested a nuclear bomb in September, but it has conducted repeated missile test since and vowed to develop a nuclear-tipped missile capable of hitting the U.S. mainland, putting it at the forefront of Trump's security worries.
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The dollar initially dipped after North Korea fired a missile early on Friday that flew over Japan's northern island of Hokkaido far over into the Pacific Ocean, further ratcheting up tensions after Pyongyang's recent test of a powerful nuclear bomb.
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Yet mocking Kim, as Trump did on Sunday in a tweet, cannot disguise a sobering reality that the North Korean dictator is winning his race to twin a nuclear bomb and a long-range missile that could hit US soil.
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"I like a two-step process much better," said Trump, who was speaking shortly after he announced he would not certify the 2015 deal, aimed at preventing Iran from developing a nuclear bomb, in a major shift in U.S. policy.
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Leaders of the U.S. intelligence community told a Senate committee on Tuesday that the nuclear threat from North Korea persisted and Iran was not taking steps toward making a nuclear bomb, conclusions that contrasted starkly with Trump's assessments of those countries.
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China, North Korea's main trading partner, has backed successive rounds of United Nations sanctions over North Korean nuclear bomb tests, but has repeatedly said it is opposed to unilateral sanctions and especially "long-arm jurisdiction" over Chinese entities and individuals.
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While never on the best terms, the U.S. and North Korea have been engaged in increasingly bellicose rhetoric since the rogue nation state and its dictatorial ruler began testing long range missiles and announced the successful detonation of a nuclear bomb.
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The NCAA has detonated its nuclear bomb only once, when Oregon State had to forfeit 15 basketball games in 1976 after the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court's injunction in favor of future NBA forward Lonnie Shelton.
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A private American delegation visited North Korea last month — two weeks after the country's most recent nuclear bomb test — in a low-key humanitarian mission carried out with the Obama administration's support, the organizer and the White House said Friday.
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Uranium refined to 20 percent fissile purity is well beyond the 5 percent normally required to fuel civilian nuclear power plants, although still well short of the highly enriched, or 80 to 90 percent, purity needed for a nuclear bomb.
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If a nuclear bomb or a dirty bomb goes off and you survive, experts say that you can easily shed 85-95 percent of the radiation on your body just through the removal of outer clothing and a decontamination shower.
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This allows for a range of around 15,000 km and it's the only way North Korea could attempt to deliver a nuclear bomb to the US. But engineering the Taepodong-2 is tricky, and North Korea hasn't successfully tested one yet.
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The deal as a whole was designed to increase the time Iran would need to obtain enough fissile material for a nuclear bomb if it wanted one – the main obstacle to producing a nuclear weapon – from around two or three months.
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When Iran signed the nuclear deal, it would be naive to think part of its elite did not have a plan for what it would do if the deal fell apart and they wanted to race for a nuclear bomb.
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European leaders are troubled by Trump's rhetoric, which they say is erratic and disruptive, citing his decision to pull out of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal as undermining an arms control agreement that prevented Tehran from developing a nuclear bomb.
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A transformer-wrecking electromagnetic pulse (EMP) would be produced by a nuclear bomb, designed to maximise its yield of gamma rays, if detonated high up, be it tethered to a big cluster of weather balloons or carried on a satellite or missile.
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Netanyahu had talks with Trump in the White House in March and Israeli diplomats worked hard behind the scenes to get their country's views across on the deal, intended to prevent Tehran obtaining a nuclear bomb but seen by opponents as flawed.
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The exhibition includes a surprising number of rare or previously unseen images, from a shot of children practicing "duck and cover" drills while a nuclear bomb explodes on the horizon, to the pristine city-sized cloud of poison from the Oak barge test.
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Britain, France and Germany, which signed the 2015 deal along with the United States, China and Russia, are determined to show they can compensate for last year's U.S. withdrawal from the accord, protect trade and still prevent Tehran from developing a nuclear bomb.
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"This legislation would ensure that we put key checks in place to ensure that Saudi Arabia never ends up with the U.S. technology or materials to make a nuclear bomb, and that Congress is the final say," said Senator Edward Markey, a Democrat.
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Read more: Insiders say a Palantir exec claimed profitability and compared Project Maven to the nuclear bomb in January all-handsThe change comes at a time of financial uncertainty for the company, which was widely viewed as an IPO candidate for 2019.
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Weeks after North Korea detonated its fourth nuclear bomb, and days after it said it would soon launch another long-range rocket, the United States and China are still at loggerheads over how — or whether — to deepen sanctions against the isolated nation.
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The British-led Working Group on the Anthropocene (WGA) told a geology conference in Cape Town that, in its considered opinion, the Anthropocene epoch began in 1950 -- the start of the era of nuclear bomb tests, disposable plastics and the human population boom.
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Far from being a new diplomatic concept, this appears to be an old Iranian logic of pushing ahead with its nuclear programme—and so moving closer to the option of building a nuclear bomb—in response to rising pressure from the West.
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North Korea said on Wednesday it had successfully conducted the test of a miniaturized hydrogen nuclear bomb, drawing threats of further sanctions even though the United States and weapons experts voiced doubts the device was as advanced as the isolated nation claimed.
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RELATED: US drops largest non-nuclear bomb in Afghanistan The shifts, which bring Trump's White House in line with many Obama and George W. Bush administration policies, may not last under this mercurial president, but they reflect some hard facts about America's interests.
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Early in his administration, Trump was shown a scale model of North Korea's sprawling nuclear bomb test site with a removable mountaintop and a miniature Statue of Liberty inside so he could grasp the size of the facility, two U.S. officials said.
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The 2015 deal, which lifted international sanctions against Iran in exchange for restrictions on its nuclear activities, is aimed at extending the time Iran would need to produce a nuclear bomb, if it chose to, to a year from roughly 2-3 months.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan on Wednesday said that North Korea's reported nuclear bomb test appeared to be a provocation but that it was too soon to push for a U.S. response until the facts of the incident are known.
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It was the largest non-nuclear bomb ever used on the battlefield — a fact Trump helped illustrate Monday by gleefully boasting to reporters about how big a hole it made in the ground and what a loud sound it made when it detonated.
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The detainees' release could signal an effort by Kim to set a more positive tone for the summit, which is being planned for late May or early June, following Kim's recent pledge to suspend missile tests and shut Pyongyang's nuclear bomb test site.
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That cap is one of many restrictions imposed by the 210 deal with major powers that were aimed at extending the time Iran would need to produce a nuclear bomb, if it chose to, to a year from roughly 1303-2130 months.
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