Nuclear bombs, the KGB, animal cruelty, Poison, Putin and Trump.
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In 2015, he compared people like me to nuclear bombs.
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Are there ways to change people's minds about nuclear bombs?
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Ethan: Interestingly, the nuclear bombs don't seem to bother the character.
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Less successfully, it sought to develop spacecraft propelled by nuclear bombs.
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They begin with sewing machines and end up with nuclear bombs.
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Here are some answers to questions about North Korea and nuclear bombs.
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Low-yield nuclear bombs or cruise missiles don't fall under that agreement.
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"They have weapons like nuclear bombs that we don't have," she said.
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We also spoke to soldiers who had nuclear bombs tested on them.
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Previous ballistic missile tests by the regime didn't use active nuclear bombs.
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They could still be spinning centrifuges to create fuel for nuclear bombs.
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BECKY QUICK: You know, you bring up nuclear power or nuclear bombs.
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But much of the same technology can be used to build nuclear bombs.
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And he is apparently considering the development of smaller, more "tactical" nuclear bombs.
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Haus firmly opposes President Donald Trump's suggestion to drop nuclear bombs into hurricanes.
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Just ask Walter White or the guys who detonated those nuclear bombs. Chemistry!
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The reactor helped North Korea create plutonium, an important ingredient for nuclear bombs.
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It's even worse when we're talking about a war that could involve nuclear bombs.
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That is fine for nuclear bombs but useless for hitting a ship or runway.
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So everything from exploding stars to nuclear bombs can create these elusive little objects.
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Nuclear bombs have been on people's minds lately as tensions with North Korea escalate.
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Nuclear fission created a new source of energy but also led to nuclear bombs.
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Some party heavyweights have even said the South should build its own nuclear bombs.
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It has called on Tehran not to develop missiles capable of delivering nuclear bombs.
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And it hosts American B61 nuclear bombs as part of NATO's nuclear-sharing scheme.
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Based on reports, the North has the capability to produce several dozen nuclear bombs.
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But it does come with one large limitation: nuclear bombs and reactors put more carbon-14 in the atmosphere, messing with the study's reading of carbon-14 in methane in samples from 1945 or later (after the first nuclear bombs were deployed).
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The Boeing B-47 Stratojet was designed to drop nuclear bombs on the Soviet Union.
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The Boeing B-7473 Stratojet was designed to drop nuclear bombs on the Soviet Union.
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North Korea manufactures atomic bombs using uranium and plutonium and has tested five nuclear bombs.
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Before this place was decimated by nuclear bombs, it must've been a scenic, snowy spot.
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Read more: Trump reportedly suggested using nuclear bombs to stop hurricanes from striking the US
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The complex includes a centrifuge plant that produces highly enriched uranium for fueling nuclear bombs.
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Two months after he was sworn in, India detonated several nuclear bombs in underground tests.
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He has even suggested that Japan and South Korea might build their own nuclear bombs.
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Pompeo said last week that North Korea was continuing to produce fuel for nuclear bombs.
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One fission reaction leads to another, and this explosive energy is what fuels nuclear bombs.
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It calls on Tehran not to undertake activities related to missiles capable of delivering nuclear bombs.
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The True Scale of Nuclear Bombs Is Totally FrighteningYour browser does not support HTML5 video tag.
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The interview took place 16 years after the first nuclear bombs dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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On numerous occasions Eisenhower toyed with the idea of dropping nuclear bombs to sway foreign conflicts.
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Worry about nuclear bombs dropping on cities and killing hundreds of thousands of people is back.
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Supporters of the deal insist that strong international monitoring will prevent Iran from developing nuclear bombs.
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Elon Musk has created two T-shirts supporting his idea to drop nuclear bombs on Mars.
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Read more: US Strategic Command apologizes for tweeting a 'pump up' video about dropping nuclear bombs
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The United States, meanwhile, detonated at least 828 nuclear bombs underground at its Nevada Test Site.
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Trump plans to develop newer and smaller nuclear bombs, in part to make them more usable.
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Just month's into President Barack Obama's first term, the North detonated a series of nuclear bombs.
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The increasing size of North Korea's nuclear bombs was also making "topping" more likely, Wang said.
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Supporters of the pact insist that strong international monitoring will prevent Iran from developing nuclear bombs.
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And unlike its Pu-239 sister isotope, Pu-238 can't be made into explosive nuclear bombs.
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Because these nuclear bombs are smaller, there'd be fewer impediments to using them, per the administration's argument.
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Worried about how you'll keep safe when nuclear bombs have turned the world into an irradiated hellscape?
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This implied that, besides its existing plutonium-based technology, the country could make nuclear bombs from uranium.
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Such a move would be a key step in the production of fissile material for nuclear bombs.
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A key factor will be the ability of the new jets to carry and deliver nuclear bombs.
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North Korea already has nuclear bombs and it has already been largely cut off from world markets.
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The problem dates back to the 1950s, when the US tested nuclear bombs in the Pacific Ocean.
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During the Cold War, the US stationed B-61 nuclear bombs in Turkey, among other NATO countries.
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Read More: The Bahamas looks like 'nuclear bombs were dropped' after Hurricane Dorian, says US aid group
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Those nuclear bombs would blow massive holes, ocean water would rush in, and presto, an instant port.
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The strategy resulted in several crashes and lost nuclear bombs, including the contamination of Greenland in 1968.
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"Sure, we will not shoot nuclear bombs," said Vladimir A. Chizhov, Russia's ambassador to the European Union.
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B-13s carry only conventional weapons while B-52s can be armed with conventional or nuclear bombs.
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The talks failed and North Korea continued on with its efforts to build missiles and nuclear bombs.
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Trump says success is evident because Pyongyang has stopped, for now, testing ballistic missiles or nuclear bombs.
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It's the only place (that we know of) where the country can make plutonium for nuclear bombs.
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But it remains in possession of fissile material for a dozen to 60 nuclear bombs, independent experts say.
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In between: A peak of the radioactive isotope cesium-53 marked 25, when humans started testing nuclear bombs.
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Enriched uranium, if spun in centrifuges to higher levels of purity, can be used to power nuclear bombs.
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Several countries are developing nanoweapons that could unleash attacks using mini-nuclear bombs and insect-like lethal robots.
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Sources familiar with the Eurofighter said it was possible to reconfigure the European jet to carry nuclear bombs.
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Before leaving office former U.S. President Barack Obama announced plans to modernize nuclear bombs, delivery systems and laboratories.
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Pompeo told lawmakers in July that North Korea is still producing the material necessary to make nuclear bombs.
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When America dropped the nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the world watched as the atomic age began.
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"This is like duck and cover from nuclear bombs in elementary school that you all experienced," he told them.
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Situations where some people have sex while other people are getting blown up, and driving nuclear bombs into lakes.
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Some 50 B-61 nuclear bombs are bunkered at Incirlik Air Force Base, controlled by U.S. personnel stationed there.
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An obvious partner in any effort to neutralise and evacuate North Korea's nuclear bombs and material would be China.
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However, that still leaves his regime space to continue testing, refining and building more advanced missiles and nuclear bombs.
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Does our time—with its talk of nuclear bombs, false alarms, and Russian spies—resemble a new Cold War?
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Narrator: For perspective, a hurricane can generate the same amount of energy throughout its lifetime as 10,000 nuclear bombs.
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Deterrence rested on the consensus that if nuclear bombs were used, they would pose catastrophic risks to both sides.
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The report details America's desire to develop newer and smaller nuclear bombs, in part to make them more usable.
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Reality: The U.S. really did think through using nuclear bombs as spacecraft propulsion in the 1950s in Project Orion.
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Pompeo himself told lawmakers in July that North Korea is still producing the material necessary to make nuclear bombs.
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In 'Deep Impact', astronauts attempt to plant nuclear bombs aboard a comet heading for Earth — utterly unnecessary, according to experts.
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As of now, the US plans to develop newer and smaller nuclear bombs, in part to make them more usable.
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Making sure terrorists don't get nuclear bombs seems like a reasonable objective — but the NSS isn't really about nuclear weapons.
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It's a serious issue, not only that nuclear bombs still exist but the by-product of that technology, nuclear power.
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Meanwhile, North Korean engineers keep cranking out weapons material that could fuel dozens of nuclear bombs in years to come.
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The Pentagon report details America's desire to develop newer and smaller nuclear bombs, in part to make them more usable.
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The apartheid government secretly built and then dismantled seven nuclear bombs before revealing its program to the world in 1993.
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The discrepancy in the figures is a consequence of the mathematical variable of at what height nuclear bombs are detonated.
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Nuclear bombs were supposed to give the spaceship lift and, once in space, the energy needed for an interplanetary excursion.
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Last year, he shared a meme on Facebook advocating dropping nuclear bombs on "the Muslim world," according to Texas Monthly.
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At Mount Mantap, a mile-high peak, the North dug a system of deep tunnels for testing its nuclear bombs.
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Without those restrictions, Washington and Moscow could get more nuclear bombs ready for use — potentially kicking off an arms race.
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But it ended the immediate crisis and prevented the North from realizing its potential to develop dozens of nuclear bombs.
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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Congress on Wednesday North Korea was continuing to produce fuel for nuclear bombs.
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In Japan, public sensitivity is also high because it is the only country that has been attacked with nuclear bombs.
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Further complicating matters, North Korea hasn't yet disclosed to the United States exactly how many nuclear bombs it even has.
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All major news outlets then report receiving an identical claim: that five more nuclear bombs are hidden in five major cities.
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In recent years, Ri has taken a high-profile role in publicizing North Korea's tests of nuclear bombs and ballistic missiles.
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The only country to have been struck by nuclear bombs, in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan has a vociferous anti-nuclear constituency.
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They allow Kim Jong Un to build nuclear bombs and missiles without relying as heavily on outside technical aid or imports.
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A new interactive map shows what the damage from fallout would be if nuclear bombs were dropped on target cities today.
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The missile would have been able to fly several times around the world, and to carry many nuclear bombs at once.
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None of these steps by North Korea does much to end the threat from the rogue regime's nuclear bombs and missiles.
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North Korea's state media earlier accused the U.S. of staging a drill to practise dropping nuclear bombs on the Korean peninsula.
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Experts staffed new agencies charged with overseeing everything from the conduct of Wall Street traders to the production of nuclear bombs.
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Elon Musk has made good on his promise to create T-shirts supporting his idea to drop nuclear bombs on Mars.
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North Korea tests its nuclear bombs in a valley beneath a cluster of mountain peaks about 370 miles northeast of Pyongyang.
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In a mere eight years it can reactivate its nuclear plants and rapidly enrich enough uranium for dozens of nuclear bombs.
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Their primary strategic role devolved to deterring the other side from using its nuclear bombs in a vast, self-canceling enterprise.
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A regime complicit in the massacre of a half-million Syrians cannot, for example, possess the means to make nuclear bombs.
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The Washington Post reported Wednesday that Wuco in 2016 suggested dropping nuclear bombs on Afghanistan after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
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The facility is the only one in the U.S. that contains both nuclear missile silos and planes that drop nuclear bombs.
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Many link the start of the anthropocene with the Industrial Revolution, the burning of fossil fuels, or the testing of nuclear bombs.
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Those processes raise concerns because they have potential to create quantities of uranium and plutonium that could be used in nuclear bombs.
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Yun has stressed to his North Korean counterparts that the regime needs to "stop testing" nuclear bombs and missiles, the official said.
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But what's even more terrifying is that there are lost nuclear bombs where no one is quite sure exactly where they are.
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Why would North Korea agree to swap its nuclear bombs for an accord that a future American president could simply rip up?
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North Korea's state media earlier accused the United States of staging a drill to practise dropping nuclear bombs on the Korean peninsula.
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That would please America, which believes China is half-hearted about stepping up pressure on the North to stop making nuclear bombs.
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People had feared since the first nuclear bombs were detonated in the 1940s that these weapons could mean the end of humanity.
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At least this followed what earlier seasons had been telling us all along: that dragons are the nuclear bombs of this world.
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Worse, technological progress has made today's nuclear bombs deadlier than either of the two bombs that decimated Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
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One possibility: in addition to freezing nuclear tests, a North Korean agreement to dismantle one or two of its existing nuclear bombs.
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While North Korea has halted its public tests of nuclear bombs and ballistic missiles, intelligence shows it continues to produce nuclear weapons.
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The B-2 was originally intended to carry nuclear bombs deep into Soviet territory if the Cold War had ever turned hot.
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Donald Trump has reportedly suggested on multiple occasions to senior officials that they tackle hurricanes threatening the U.S. by detonating nuclear bombs.
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He insists on maintaining the fiction that Kim is a dictator who keeps his word: no missile tests and no nuclear bombs.
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Which is to say: you'd probably need to confine the force of 4,000 of the most powerful nuclear bombs into a projectile.
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However, he has made some serious errors, too, such as undermining the deal with Iran that curbs its ability to make nuclear bombs.
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And they're careful for good reason: Just between the U.S. and Russia there are more than enough nuclear bombs to wipe out humanity.
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US officials have long feared that pulling the American nuclear bombs out could encourage Erdogan to try to turn that bluster into reality.
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Research suggests the consequences of supervolcano eruptions and nuclear bombs could be similar to the aftermath of the asteroid that doomed the dinosaurs.
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It would have been enough to build eight or more nuclear bombs, depending on the skill and destructive ambitions of the bomb maker.
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Supporters of the deal, called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, insist that strong international monitoring will prevent Iran from developing nuclear bombs.
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Today, supercomputers at US national laboratories are used for everything from simulating the conditions around detonated nuclear bombs to modeling the Earth's climate.
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Saotome said he understood that Hiroshima was unique in that it represented the first time nuclear bombs were used anywhere in the world.
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Uranium fuel for reactors is enriched to only about 5 percent, lower than the 90 percent level for fissile material in nuclear bombs.
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Most recently, White House leakers told Axios about a fully-bonkers interest the President allegedly expressed in using nuclear bombs to fight hurricanes.
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Flexing America's military muscle alone is not likely to deter North Korea's dictator, Kim Jong-un, from testing nuclear bombs and ballistic missiles.
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The goal is to break the entrenchment of Iran and its proxies around our borders before the Islamic Republic can produce nuclear bombs.
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They approximated India and Pakistan's arsenals at the time and imagined a war involving 23 Hiroshima-sized nuclear bombs—15 kilotons—over cities.
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Katanga is vastly wealthy in metals — cobalt, copper, gold, manganese, uranium, zinc — used in everything from electric wires to cellphones and nuclear bombs.
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Among the points that Yun has made to his North Korean interlocutors is to "stop testing" nuclear bombs and missiles, the official said.
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Well, it is, but the participants know that terrorists with nuclear bombs are low-probability events, even if they are potentially massive in impact.
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Experts say it's large enough that it could carry missiles equipped with nuclear bombs, allowing Kim to order nuclear strikes from unknown underwater locations.
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In 1988 Japan was permitted—under tight international controls—to enrich uranium and extract plutonium, employing the same technology used to make nuclear bombs.
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But South Koreans in their 20s and 30s grew up at a time of worsening relations as the North developed missiles and nuclear bombs.
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Researchers also cite conservative estimates that 34 million people would die if 100 nuclear bombs were unleashed on China, the world's most populous nation.
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Since Kim Jong Un inherited power from his father in 2011, he has accelerated the pace of trials of nuclear bombs and ballistic missiles.
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When North Korea detonates nuclear bombs, it brings the devices into tunnels dug deep inside Mount Mantap, a granite peak over 7,123 feet tall.
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The US began pulling nuclear bombs out of NATO countries after the Cold War ended, and since 2000 has removed 40 bombs from Turkey.
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Even if we could predict which tropical storms develop into hurricanes, it would be extraordinarily expensive to create enough nuclear bombs to fight them.
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Disregarding international sanctions, North Korea has repeatedly tested nuclear bombs underground, as well as missiles that could theoretically carry warheads to the United States.
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At Russia's insistence, each bomber is counted as a single warhead, no matter how many nuclear bombs it carries or has ready for use.
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Since 2000, the US has removed 40 nuclear bombs from Turkey, but about 50 of them are still stored at the base at Incirlik.
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The plan — meant to prevent North Korea from using raw material to make nuclear bombs — was rejected in favor of tougher United Nation sanctions.
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The status means the planes would be loaded with nuclear bombs and parked on special runways, ready to take off on a moment's notice.
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Some of them, the organization's research suggested, were involved in selling to North Korea chemicals used in the manufacturing of nuclear bombs or missiles.
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When you say air power, you mean that the dragons are more like warplanes — and together an air force — more so than nuclear bombs.
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Experts at 38 North estimated in April that North Korea could have as many as 20 nuclear bombs and could produce one more each month.
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Dr. Strangelove was quickly reinterpreted as an allegory for the Goldwater campaign, especially after Goldwater advocated the use of low-yield nuclear bombs in Vietnam.
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Like the US or the Soviet Union in the late 1940s, there is by no means an inexhaustible supply of nuclear bombs at his disposal.
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On Thursday, the military dropped one of its most powerful non-nuclear bombs -- a 21,600-pound behemoth -- over a warren of ISIS tunnels in Afghanistan.
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North Korea has conducted dozens of missile tests and tested two nuclear bombs since the beginning of 2016 in defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions.
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Pompeo told a Senate committee hearing on July 25 that North Korea was continuing to produce fuel for nuclear bombs in spite of its pledge.
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Then there was the rumored 85033 federal study on exploding nuclear bombs in a cavern beneath Texas in order to superheat steam and generate power.
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Workers buried the waste there as part of efforts to clean hazardous debris left behind after the US military detonated nuclear bombs on the land.
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Specifically, I'm talking about what we call "weapons-usable nuclear material" like plutonium or highly enriched uranium that could be used to make nuclear bombs.
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North Korea promised Trump that it would no longer test any more nuclear bombs or missiles, but clearly Kim doesn't mind continuing to improve them.
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Trump reportedly asked why the U.S. couldn't just drop nuclear bombs on hurricanes, an idea that was seriously considered in the 1950s before being abandoned.
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France is set on a plane that can take off from aircraft-carriers and carry nuclear bombs, whereas Britain has the F-35 for that.
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Corbin had fought the military arrogance of the U.S. government, which has exploded over 1,000 nuclear bombs for decades in the belly of the desert.
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Congo is rich in natural resources, including diamonds, gold, oil, timber, copper, hydropower, cassiterite for tin ore, uranium for nuclear bombs and cobalt for cellphones.
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In addition, cancelling a program to refurbish 180 tactical nuclear bombs stationed in Europe could save $28.8 billion - too much money for too little deterrence.
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Although that complex, Yongbyon, houses facilities that produce plutonium and uranium fuel for nuclear bombs, it is not the only nuclear facility in the North.
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Mitchell noted that the Roswell crash occurred near America's largest weapons testing range at a time when it was developing its most powerful nuclear bombs.
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Size matters: If you've read our Facts Matter, then you know the MOAB, despite weighing 21,600 pounds, is actually pretty puny compared to other nuclear bombs.
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It's winter, 2018, in Iowa, five months after the last of the nuclear bombs detonated across megacities in northeast Asia, from Seoul to Tokyo to Shanghai.
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Kim might have as many as 60 nuclear bombs and the ability to make a new atomic weapon every few weeks, along with over 1,000 missiles.
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In his later years, Hawking was sometimes a controversial figure, issuing a number of dire predictions about energy consumption, robots, extraterrestrials, nuclear bombs, and climate change.
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A conflict between India and Pakistan that resulted in 100 Hiroshima-sized nuclear bombs being used on large cities would kill about 20 million people outright.
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The alternative - keeping North Korea ever more isolated - perpetuates the fantasy that Pyongyang still can be sanctioned or otherwise induced to give up its nuclear bombs.
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Even reformists, who had dismantled Iran's nuclear programme and handed over enough fissile material to build ten nuclear bombs as part of the deal, feel betrayed.
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He advocated using torture, and nuclear bombs, said his opponent was corrupt and possibly a murderer, and swore that, if elected, he would lock her up.
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Mr Kim, he reassured the world, had promised to stick to the moratorium on tests of missiles and nuclear bombs that has held since November 2017.
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" Gates: "There are some things that aren't likely but we should worry about — nuclear bombs and bioterrorism (from nation states or terrorism), or a big pandemic.
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A Japanese defence official observes that since the country published its last defence guidelines in 543, North Korea has tested 53 missiles and three nuclear bombs.
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The nuclear bombs, it turned out, weren't that effective for building canals, though they did create an "atomic lake" in the crater formed by the blast.
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We could use nuclear bombs to divert the tectonic currents and push the United Kingdom to a more economically advantageous position, somewhere just east of Singapore.
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Moreover, since Moscow would strike first against the few hundred obsolete U.S. tactical nuclear bombs bunkered in Germany and Turkey, these U.S. weapons are not survivable.
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President Donald Trump has suggested dropping nuclear bombs into hurricanes to stop them from causing damage to the US, the news website Axios reported on Sunday.
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The refuge, designated by Congress in 2011, surrounds a restricted superfund site that for decades was the location for the manufacturing of Plutonium for Nuclear Bombs.
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"They released the same amount of energy as 8.5 billion trillion trillion Hiroshima nuclear bombs," explains Dr. Alan Duffy, a professor of astronomy at Swinburne University.
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However, North Korea has remained adamant throughout this year's thaw in relations with South Korea that its nuclear bombs and ballistic missiles are here to stay.
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OUCH: Hundreds of Marshall Islanders living in Dubuque, Iowa were allowed to relocate there in the 1980s after the U.S. dropped nuclear bombs on their island.
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Because of that, many in Japan, which was hit by two nuclear bombs in World War II, would prefer not to establish ties with nuclear power.
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Iran at the time had enough enriched material for eight to 10 nuclear bombs and was two to three months from being able to build one.
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In a conventional conflict, the four-engine B-2 can carry two GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators, the biggest non-nuclear bombs in the US arsenal.
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The refuge, designated by Congress in 2011, surrounds a restricted Superfund site that for decades was a manufacturing site for the plutonium used in nuclear bombs.
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The Clinton adminstration's 1994 framework agreement with North Korea stopped Pyongyang's plutonium production — the surest route to large numbers of nuclear bombs — for nearly a decade.
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The key problem for the United States is the likely possibility that North Korea has the missiles to deliver nuclear bombs to South Korea and Japan.
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North Korea has invited foreign journalists to observe the dismantling of Punggye-ri, the remote mountain site where six nuclear bombs have been tested in underground tunnels.
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A group of experts on the North Korea's nuclear program said the country's uranium enrichment facilities allow it to produce around six new nuclear bombs a year.
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Its effort to produce material for nuclear bombs, however, has rumbled on, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in a report to its annual general conference.
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Only America presents a serious military threat, and can unlock UN sanctions imposed in response to North Korea's drive to develop nuclear bombs and long-range missiles.
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For North Korea, a return to the frequent tests of long-range missiles and nuclear bombs that preceded last year's diplomatic efforts is not on the cards.
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America is also spending billions of dollars to upgrade 150-odd B61 nuclear bombs that are squirrelled away across Europe and can be dropped by allies' aircraft.
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The MOAB is one of the powerful non-nuclear bombs in the United States arsenal and is the most powerful bomb the U.S. has used in Afghanistan.
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And when the Senate Foreign Relations Committee questioned Pompeo later in July, he admitted that North Korea is still producing the material necessary to make nuclear bombs.
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Iran has said its steps to reactivate uranium enrichment, a pathway to developing nuclear bombs, could be reversed if Washington rescinded sanctions and returned to the deal.
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America needed a way to nuke anyone it wanted, at any time, without sending its flyboys into the air jacked up on amphetamine while carrying nuclear bombs.
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The MOAB is one of the most powerful non-nuclear bombs in the U.S. military's arsenal and is the most devastating bomb it has used in Afghanistan.
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He also late last year warned of taking a "new path" in 2020 engendering fears that the country would restart testing nuclear bombs and long-range missiles.
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Neither China nor Russia have any deep interest in crimping the DPRK's nuclear and missile threat, for it will not launch nuclear bombs at its two benefactors.
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It could learn how to operate an industrial-scale enrichment program capable of producing multiple nuclear bombs' worth of fissile material before any inspectors could detect it.
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Listen, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, we dropped atom bombs, nuclear bombs to end a war and we are still at war with people that have done even more disgusting things.
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The deal - designed to forestall Iran making high-enriched uranium suitable for nuclear bombs in short order - permitted a maximum reserve of 300 kilograms of low-enriched uranium.
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"He / she is the host and master who controls the arena with nuclear bombs, zone closures, gravity storms, and the power of their voice," explains developer Scavengers Studio.
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Yet by the middle of May 2023, America had whisked away not only these, but also the 180 tactical nuclear bombs it had kept in Europe for decades.
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Image: Future of Life/NUKEMAPThe destructive power of nuclear bombs has been seared into our collective memory, thanks to archival images of the devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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In 1992, they said they would not develop nor harbor nuclear weapons, and they would not enrich or reprocess materials that could be used for making nuclear bombs.
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Iran says it has not agreed to any limits on its missile program, which is intended to carry conventional warheads not nuclear bombs, and the sanctions are illegal.
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I sometimes feel as if I spent my childhood hiding under desks in elementary school classrooms, preparing for the nuclear bombs that would soon drop on our heads.
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Getting North Korea to destroy its existing nuclear bombs, however, should be negotiated as part of a much bigger deal, which is a peace treaty with South Korea.
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UNITED NATIONS — Secretary General Ban Ki-moon warned on Wednesday that North Korea's repeated tests of nuclear bombs and ballistic missiles had created unprecedented tension in the region.
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A senior Trump administration official told Axios that the president's suggestion to drop nuclear bombs into hurricanes to stop them from hitting the United States was well-intentioned.
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Before the war's end, firebombs dropped by B-2400s killed hundreds of thousands of Japanese citizens in more than 2200 cities before nuclear bombs leveled Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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For example, Mr. Trump has suggested that he may abandon diplomatic efforts to curb North Korea's testing of nuclear bombs and longer-range missiles and order an attack.
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What do Republicans who support the right of 9/11 victims to include Saudi Arabia in lawsuits think of Trump's suggestion that Saudi Arabia should have nuclear bombs?
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Or his hope to chat with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, whom Trump once praised for eliminating his rivals, before suggesting South Korea should have nuclear bombs?
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The dictatorship threatened to test more long-range missiles and nuclear bombs if it does not get more of what it wants by the end of the year.
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Besides the United States and Russia, which are believed to have the largest nuclear arsenals, Britain, China, France, India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea all have nuclear bombs.
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That's anathema to the Trump view that there's no rush to sign a deal as long as Kim doesn't start testing long-range missiles or nuclear bombs again.
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That means Pyongyang would have to destroy reactors and buildings, give away documents with designs and calculations, and hand off missiles that can carry nuclear bombs to America.
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What's worse, Pyongyang wants to hide this nuclear activity from the world, and most likely the United States, in part by moving those nuclear bombs out of facilities.
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The Energy Department has already spent about $21 billion on the half-built plant near Aiken, S.C., designed to make commercial reactor fuel out of plutonium from nuclear bombs.
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Tensions over the possibility of a nuclear war have grown in recent years as the North's scientists and engineers have successfully tested larger nuclear bombs and long-range missiles.
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Indeed, uranium was the critical component the two nuclear bombs dropped on Japan during World War II, but the type of uranium used for these bombs was highly enriched.
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With a blend of shyness and defiance, they displayed an astonishing spectacle: a hall with 20113,22011 brand-new centrifuges, machines that enrich uranium, either for electricity or nuclear bombs.
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Both Americans and South Koreans familiar with diplomatic negotiations have told me that the Trump administration is "disappointed" at the lack of progress made toward dismantling Pyongyang's nuclear bombs.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The phenomenal retrospective Raymond Pettibon: A Pen of All Work at the New Museum opens with a wall chockablock with exploding nuclear bombs.
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The US began pulling nuclear bombs out of NATO countries after the Cold War ended and since 2000 has removed 40 bombs from Turkey, but 50 are still there.
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This second map depicts what would happen if all 1,100 targets were hit by nuclear bombs varying from 50 kt to 303,000 kt in size on 29 April 2016.
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The Godzilla franchise began in 1954 under the auspices of the Japanese director Ishirō Honda, just a decade after the United States dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Quick reminder—the last mass extinction was a caused by a 10-kilometer-wide asteroid that struck our planet with the energy equivalent to over a million nuclear bombs.
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He went from demanding that North Korea rapidly and completely disarm to saying he was in no hurry, as long as Mr. Kim stopped testing nuclear bombs or missiles.
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While North Korea has halted its public tests of nuclear bombs and ballistic missiles, intelligence indicates that it has shown no slackening in its pace in building such weapons.
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A month after the meeting, the top U.S. military commander on the Korean peninsula said that the material needed for North Korea to make nuclear bombs is still intact.
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A nuclear review scheduled to be published this week is expected to call for development of low yield nuclear bombs -- a move likely to infuriate China, Russia and Kim.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea is continuing to produce fissile material for nuclear bombs in spite of its pledge to denuclearize, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday.
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But North Korea never said it would end its nuclear program, though it did say it would stop testing missiles and nuclear bombs and destroy a nuclear testing site.
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But it has yet to demonstrate that it can produce nuclear bombs small enough to place on a missile, or missiles that can reliably deliver their bombs to faraway targets.
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TEN years after the incineration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by American nuclear bombs, Japan embraced "atoms for peace", a policy of civilian nuclear power championed by Dwight Eisenhower, America's president.
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Their history traces back to the first and only country to use nuclear bombs as weapons, just a couple years after the attacks on Japan: post-World War II America.
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Up to this point, North Korea has tested fission nuclear bombs, in which a chain reaction is triggered when radioactive material is compressed, either with a bullet or an implosion.
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But it has yet to demonstrate that it can produce nuclear bombs small enough to place on a missile, or missiles that can reliably deliver its bombs to faraway targets.
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Mushroom clouds from nuclear bombs interrupt a quiet cloudless day and scenes of debris fill the screen -- just before a clip of Trump questioning America's reluctance to use the warheads.
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That was seriously considered: Former National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster advocated for military options within the White House, including a limited attack to deter Pyongyang from building more nuclear bombs.
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"Locally, we don't believe this weapon belongs at a commercial airport located in densely populated residential neighborhoods," James Ehlers, campaign director for Citizens Against Nuclear Bombs in Vermont, told CNBC.
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Since then, North Korea continued to show its displeasure, firing short range projectiles off the peninsula's eastern coast and revealing new weapons the regime claims to be miniaturized nuclear bombs.
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Because keeping Pakistan's nuclear bombs out of the wrong hands has long been a top priority for the United States and Europe, it follows that Pakistan's overall stability is crucial.
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Experts said the submarine was large enough that it could likely carry missiles equipped with nuclear bombs, allowing the North Korean leader to order nuclear strikes from unknown underwater locations.
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"Building and stockpiling nuclear bombs is wrong and using it is haram (religiously forbidden) ... Although we have nuclear technology, Iran has firmly avoided it," State TV quoted him as saying.
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Examining viewpoints of both American bombers/scientists and Japanese victims, featured works expand the conversation on the impact of nuclear bombs and reflect on issues of forgiveness, identity, and heritage.
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Trump has played down the significance of North Korea's recent uptick in missile tests, highlighting the fact that Kim only agreed to stop testing longer-range missiles and nuclear bombs.
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He did not point out that the eight-engine, subsonic bomber can fly thousands of miles while carrying up to 35 tons of weaponry, including nuclear bombs and cruise missiles.
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And despite seemingly improving relations between Washington and Pyongyang, NBC News reported on Monday that North Korea is continuing to develop nuclear bombs — and has tried to hide the progress.
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Former President Jimmy Carter banned nuclear waste reprocessing in 1977 because it chemically unlocks purer streams of uranium and plutonium, both of which could be used to make nuclear bombs.
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He supported last year's deal to end sanctions against Iran in exchange for its dismantling of the infrastructure the United States believed would give it the capacity to make nuclear bombs.
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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week that North Korea was continuing to produce fuel for nuclear bombs despite its pledge to denuclearize.
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This means there is considerable debate about whether it can produce nuclear bombs small enough to place on a missile, or missiles that can reliably deliver their bombs to faraway targets.
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Despite years of crippling sanctions, by the time Kerry became secretary Iran was just a few steps in the nuclear fuel cycle away from being able to produce 10 nuclear bombs.
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After six years of prodding by Obama and others before him, the global stockpile of fissile material that could be used in nuclear bombs remains in the thousands of metric tons.
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Edward Teller, the theoretical physicist who helped bring us the atom bomb, thought we could create a new harbor in Alaska by exploding a series of nuclear bombs along the coastline.
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US troops have been fighting there for nearly 16 years, and last week, the US military dropped one of its largest non-nuclear bombs on an ISIS target in the country.
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They noted that Mr. Kim said nothing about halting the production of nuclear bombs or missiles during negotiations — which meant the North could build its arsenal while stringing out the talks.
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The B-2 can carry sixteen 2,400 lb B83 nuclear bombs, but its official limit of 40,000 lbs of ordinance means it can carry a massive amount of Precision-guided munitions.
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But North Korea continued to produce nuclear bombs and missiles to carry them around the world, and reneged on deals with the United States and others to dismantle its nuclear program.
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The country has been testing ballistic missiles and nuclear bombs at a breakneck pace in recent months, and the international community has been scrambling to find ways to slow it down.
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In 1997, Mr. Gowin began shooting a series of aerial photographs of the Nevada Test Site, where the United States government detonated more than 1,000 nuclear bombs from 1951 to 1992.
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All afternoon, guards screamed at the detainees to shut up and walk faster, called them "sand niggers," and said that their family members and countries had been obliterated by nuclear bombs.
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However, experts say things to watch for in the review include possible recommendations to deploy small nuclear bombs abroad closer to anticipated conflict, or to develop more lower-yield nuclear weapons.
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The study estimated that over the period of North Korea's nuclear negotiations Pyongyang produced about 2628 pounds of weapons-grade enriched uranium, which it could use to develop six nuclear bombs.
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The Russian team considered directly impacting objects with nuclear bombs, especially on weak spots like cavities or craters, or even burying bombs within an asteroid for a more efficient pyrotechnic result.
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The North Korean leader may have concluded there is nothing we can offer him that would take the place of his nuclear bombs that keep him in power and keep him alive.
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Most importantly, neither isolation nor sanctions have hindered Moscow's ability to kill millions of Americans in a horrific attack with an arsenal of nuclear bombs second in size only to our own.
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That was consistent with Trump's repeated statements that he's in "no rush" for a deal with North Korea, as long as it continues not to test any more nuclear bombs or missiles.
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Jubeir said that new sanctions on Iran would be welcome, and that a delay could mean that by the time sanctions had impact, Iran could have already developed "a dozen" nuclear bombs.
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North Korea is thought to have a growing arsenal of nuclear bombs and long-range missiles and to be closing in on the ability to reliably target anywhere on the U.S. mainland.
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The US in early April also used one of its largest non-nuclear bombs, known as the "Mother of All Bombs," for the first time in combat to target ISIS in Afghanistan.
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The Pentagon is walking back comments a U.S. Central Command employee gave to The Hill regarding the use of one of the military's largest non-nuclear bombs during an operation in Afghanistan.
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As the Syrian crisis pits Turkish troops against former US-allied Kurdish forces, Pentagon officials have been reviewing plans to remove 50 nuclear bombs stored at a US air base in Turkey.
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As part of the extended nuclear deterrence that the United States offers to its NATO allies, US forces have approximately 50 B-61 nuclear bombs stored at Incirlik Air Base in Turkey.
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I learned about how science has not always been the saving grace we like to imagine; science gives rise as easily to nuclear bombs and bioweapons as to penicillin and the iPad.
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It all comes down to whether to drop nuclear bombs on the beast — a radical step for Japan — or to try a less conventional idea that is akin to freeze-drying it.
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UNITED NATIONS — Exasperated with North Korea's defiant testing of nuclear bombs and ballistic missiles, the United Nations Security Council voted unanimously on Wednesday to severely toughen its penalties against the isolated country.
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And because North Korea worries about America's nuclear program and already believes the B-1 can drop nuclear bombs, that tweet may have ratcheted the already high tensions with Pyongyang even higher.
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Kim rules a country that has suffered famine, depends on China for food and fuel and has poured its limited resources into creating an arsenal of nuclear bombs and intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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But the country mainly stopped testing its nuclear bombs and missile by late 2017 (other than two missile tests this month), and Trump seems to have taken that as a major victory.
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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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American officials believe North Korea has built as many as a dozen nuclear bombs — perhaps many more — and can mount them on missiles capable of hitting much of Japan and South Korea.
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The US nuclear arsenal is based on what's called "the nuclear triad": land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), submarines equipped with nuclear missiles, and nuclear bombs that can be dropped by bombers.
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Thapar is best known for sentencing in 2014 an 84-year-old nun to three years in prison for breaking into a Tennessee military facility used to store enriched uranium for nuclear bombs.
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Currently, the Outer Space Treaty, which went into effect in 1967, prohibits nations from placing nuclear bombs and other weapons of mass destruction in space or on the Moon or other celestial bodies.
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"I think North Korea is capable of miniaturizing nuclear bombs," said Yang Uk, a senior research fellow at the Korea Defence and Security Forum and a policy adviser to the South Korean navy.
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The Marshalls are best known for being a major shipping registry, a diving paradise, and for the Bikini Atoll where dozens of U.S. nuclear bombs were tested in the 1940s and the 1950s.
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Earlier on Thursday, U.S. national security adviser John Bolton told Fox Business Network that the launches since last week did not violate Kim's pledge not to test long-range missiles or nuclear bombs.
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Specifically, the Singapore-based newspaper wrote, the North has added several intercontinental ballistic missiles and enough fissile materials for six more nuclear bombs, giving Kim's regime a total of more than 85033 bombs.
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That means in the case of a hypothetical atomic war, German pilots would load their aircraft with US nuclear bombs and drop them on their intended targets at the behest of the alliance.
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To the Editor: I am saddened but not surprised that decades later undiagnosed and untreated (and even unrecorded) illnesses showed up in American airmen who worked at a crash site containing nuclear bombs.
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Thapar is best known for sentencing in 2014 an 84-year-old nun to three years in prison for breaking into a Tennessee military facility used to store enriched uranium for nuclear bombs.
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President Trump tweeted on Tuesday night — for the third time — that Jonathan Swan's reporting on him asking if officials could explore using nuclear bombs to stop hurricanes from hitting the U.S. was ridiculous.
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INTERNATIONAL A diagram last Sunday with an article about North Korea's nuclear capabilities mislabeled two circles comparing the range of third-degree burns that could result from the detonation of two nuclear bombs.
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Iran has denied as "laughably absurd" a detailed Israeli claim that intelligence agents stole clandestine Iranian documents this past winter that reveal what Israel has called Iran's extensive past research on nuclear bombs.
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The Trump administration is now facing the very specter Mr. Clinton had feared: a North Korea armed with enough nuclear bombs to threaten its neighbors — and the United States — while deterring incoming attacks.
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Until now India has relied on aircraft armed with nuclear bombs, which might struggle to break through air defences, or land-based missiles, which are at risk of being spotted by gimlet-eyed satellites.
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Their military mole-city, completed in the mid-1960s amid Cold War worries, is—when fully buttoned-up—highly resistant to nuclear bombs, electromagnetic bombs, electromagnetically destructive behavior from the sun, and biological weapons.
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In 1994 President Bill Clinton secured a deal whereby Kim Jong Il (the current despot's father) agreed to stop producing the raw material for nuclear bombs in return for a huge injection of aid.
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At the core of their concern was a fear that states in the volatile Middle East would have inadequate security for the plants and safeguards for their radioactive waste—the stuff of nuclear bombs.
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Kim Jong Un rules a country that has suffered famine, depends on China for food and fuel and has poured its limited resources into creating an arsenal of nuclear bombs and intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, still wants to drop nuclear bombs on Mars to transform it into a livable planet for humans — as evidenced by his latest tweet on Friday morning.
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Five years later, the two adversaries — alarmed by the spread of nuclear weapons around the globe — agreed to a treaty that would ban most of the rest of the world from acquiring nuclear bombs.
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There's a whole lot of everything in the "Mission: Impossible — Fallout," an entertainment machine par excellence that skitters around the world and has something to do with nuclear bombs, mysterious threats and dangerous beauties.
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Washington (CNN)Hillary Clinton on Monday offered a succinct and pithy response to a report that President Donald Trump has suggested dropping nuclear bombs into hurricanes to prevent them from reaching the United States.
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In 21990, after the US dropped two nuclear bombs on 95 target ships in the Marshall Islands as part of a test known as Operation Crossroads, the contaminated ships were sent to San Francisco.
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Every week, plutonium - one of the two key ingredients in nuclear bombs, along with highly enriched uranium - is transported overland from La Hague to Marcoule in southern France for recycling into mixed-oxide fuel.
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The United States has been trying to persuade China to agree to new sanctions on North Korea, which has conducted dozens of missile firings and tested two nuclear bombs since the beginning of 2016.
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Pompeo said on Wednesday North Korea was continuing to produce fuel for nuclear bombs despite its pledge to denuclearize, even as he argued that the United States was making progress in talks with Pyongyang.
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From 1945 to 1963, the United States and the Soviet Union detonated over 400 nuclear bombs aboveground in a very bad, no good, uh, weapons-measuring contest that the world never wants to happen again.
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And in the 21st century, things gets even darker when a string of nuclear bombs are detonated across the globe, turning the Earth into an irradiated hellscape that can only be escaped through time travel.
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"Even at this moment, Pyongyang is accelerating its nuclear weapons and missile capabilities from nuclear bombs and hydrogen bombs to ICBMs and SLBMs," he said referring to intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarine-launched ballistic missiles.
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North Korea, which has conducted dozens of missile tests and tested two nuclear bombs since the beginning of 2016 in defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions, says the program is necessary to counter U.S. aggression.
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Afghanistan's previous president said Monday that President Trump "committed an immense atrocity" in allowing the U.S. military to drop one of its most powerful non-nuclear bombs on ISIS tunnels in the country last week.
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"There are parts of Abaco and the Bahamas that don't show a great deal of damage, and then there are clusters and communities that were devastated, almost as though nuclear bombs were dropped on them."
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The stakes, moreover, couldn't be higher, with a crazed anarchist, part of a group known as The Apostles, seeking the means to make nuclear bombs, leaving it to Hunt and company to track them down.
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North Korea will not be testing any more missiles or nuclear bombs while the diplomacy continues, and the talks led by Mr. Pompeo will hopefully make progress toward stopping the world's worst runaway nuclear program.
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North Korea's repeated defiance of a ban on testing missiles and nuclear bombs prompted the United Nations Security Council on Saturday to unanimously adopt a resolution imposing the most stringent sanctions yet against the country.
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Depending on the plan chosen by the president, the command will go to US crews operating the submarines carrying nuclear missiles, warplanes that can drop nuclear bombs, or troops overseeing intercontinental ballistic missiles on land.
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You can type in your ZIP code, and then choose between different types of nuclear bombs, such as North Korea's Hwasong-14 or the Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear weapon ever tested by the Soviet Union.
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The isolated country, which has conducted dozens of missile tests and tested two nuclear bombs since the beginning of 2016 in defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions, says the program is necessary to counter U.S. aggression.
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The plan that he and the movie's other baddies ultimately embark upon involves detonating two nuclear bombs and irradiating the water supply that keeps much of India, China, and Pakistan — and thus billions of people — hydrated.
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Neither Saudi Arabia nor China are members of the Missile Technology Control Regime, a 30-year-old agreement aimed at limiting the proliferation of rockets capable of carrying weapons of mass destruction, such as nuclear bombs.
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The crater stretches for 31 kilometers (7003 miles) underneath Hiawatha Glacier, and was blasted into existence by a mile-long iron asteroid that unleashed the equivalent of 700 one-megaton nuclear bombs of energy upon impact.
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The isolated country, which has conducted dozens of missile tests and tested two nuclear bombs since the beginning of 2016 in defiance of UN Security Council resolutions, says the program is necessary to counter US aggression.
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Instead of the current 85033 months breakout time--the time needed to enrich enough fissile material for one bomb--Iran will be just days from producing enough nuclear fuel for an entire arsenal of nuclear bombs.
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There is no evidence — zero — that other nations, such as Russia or North Korea, believe that they can take advantage of the United States because we would not retaliate with the 28500,6900 nuclear bombs we have.
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In 1998 a group of teenagers in America, Britain and New Zealand hacked into the administrative computers of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre,India's main nuclear-research site, shortly after India tested nuclear bombs that year.
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That's right: According to President Donald Trump's top foreign policy aide on Monday, North Korea doesn't have a deadline for giving up its nuclear bombs and missiles — contradicting his administration's stance from just one day earlier.
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The last time Americans were allowed into North Korea's Yongbyon Nuclear Research Center — the facility 22000 miles north of Pyongyang where scientists produce the raw material used to make nuclear bombs — was on November 22004, 22010.
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The last time Americans were allowed into North Korea's Yongbyon Nuclear Research Center — the facility 60 miles north of Pyongyang where scientists produce the raw material used to make nuclear bombs — was on November 12, 20043.
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The top U.S. military commander on the Korean peninsula said Saturday that the material needed for North Korea to make nuclear bombs is still intact, even after an historic summit in Singapore aimed at denuclearizing Pyongyang.
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UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations Security Council on Saturday unanimously adopted a resolution to impose the most punishing sanctions yet against North Korea over its repeated defiance of a ban on testing missiles and nuclear bombs.
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Ri said he would not discuss North Korea's nuclear weapons programme with the South because its nuclear bombs and intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) are aimed "thoroughly" at the United States, not at its "brethren" in the South.
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For the next five years, Barrett's team will be using its high-throughput modeling system to help the Defense Threat Reduction Agency grapple not just with nuclear bombs but with infectious disease epidemics and natural disasters too.
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The general has just sent a B-52 squadron to drop nuclear bombs on Russia; the end of the world is minutes away, and Mandrake is trying to get Ripper to tell him the planes' recall code.
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The signs of the coming doomsday include sinkholes (the result of nuclear bombs), the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines MH370 (the magnetic poles switched positions), and something called the snout hole (it's a tiny black hole in Louisiana).
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But the Taliban and ISIS both have footholds in the country and in April, the US dropped one of its largest non-nuclear bombs on a Taliban post -- the first such use of the weapon in battle.
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During the late 1940s, the United States was the only nation that had nuclear bombs, but we were unable to use it to our advantage when negotiating with the Soviet Union over the future of Eastern Europe.
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If enough nuclear bombs (thousands of them) were to explode, that could also bring on a nuclear winter that would reduce sunlight levels by more than 90%, according to a 1983 paper co-authored by Carl Sagan.
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His nuclear bombs and ICBMs are no match for the South Korean "soaps" that are increasingly enjoyed by Pyongyang's residents, filling their living rooms with images of a cornucopia of goods they can otherwise only dream of.
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Bahamas destruction like 'nuclear bombs were dropped,' USAID says Those who lived through the storm bring with them horrific tales of survival: breaking through rooftops or swimming onto boats to try to ride out the violent waters.
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Remember, they said they were going to get rid of their plutonium production system and then they merely swapped that out for enriched uranium, which is what eventually led to these nuclear bombs that they had been testing.
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Kim Jong Un's regime has mastered the art of dodging sanctions and continued to test nuclear bombs and ballistic missiles despite the best efforts of the U.S. and U.N. to choke off its ability to do business overseas.
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The launches comes amid a diplomatic breakdown that has followed the failed summit earlier this year between President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un over the North's pursuit of nuclear bombs that can accurately target the U.S. mainland.
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The fuel, enriched to under 20 percent uranium, is far safer than what the Navy currently uses: highly enriched uranium, or HEU, which is enriched to above 90 percent and was originally produced for use in nuclear bombs.
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The United States dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan at the end of World War II in 1945 — the only example in history of a first use, or any use, of nuclear weapons in warfare.
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Meanwhile, the top U.S. military commander on the Korean Peninsula said in July that the material needed for North Korea to make nuclear bombs is still intact, even after the historic summit in Singapore aimed at denuclearizing Pyongyang.
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B-2 bombers are manned by a two-person crew and are capable of delivering a 40,000-pound payload, including nuclear bombs, according to the US Air Force, which maintains 20 aircraft in its fleet of stealth bombers.
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When the Six-Party Talks finally collapsed, North Korea went on to secretly build centrifuges to enrich uranium and proceeded to test five nuclear bombs, each bigger than the one before, at the site it now promises to mothball.
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The Doomsday Clock has been a symbolic way of representing threats to global security since 1947, and was created as a reaction to the United States dropping nuclear bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
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The report did not say if they discussed the North Korean dictator's upcoming summits with President Trump and President Moon Jae-in of South Korea to defuse a standoff over the North's development of nuclear bombs and ballistic missiles.
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Initially a repository of fears about the American nuclear bombs that had incinerated Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, he morphed into a family favourite during the optimistic post-war decades, periodically rising from Tokyo Bay to smite external threats.
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Buying F-35s would allow Germany to keep a mixed fleet of fighter jets, a key requirement in its military strategy, while averting costly and time-consuming modifications to the process of certifying the Eurofighter to carry nuclear bombs.
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Trump has played down North Korea missile launches since his failed summit with Kim in Vietnam in February, saying they were of short-range devices, not the intercontinental ballistic missiles and nuclear bombs Kim has promised not to test.
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Among the disclosures North Korea made at the time about its nuclear program was the revelation that it had produced roughly 40 kilograms of enriched plutonium, something the US State Department said was enough for about seven nuclear bombs.
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The director of a US federal aid agency said on Sunday that the Bahamas looks like "nuclear bombs were dropped" on it following the devastating Hurricane Dorian, which slammed into the islands as a Category 1853 storm last week.
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José Herrera Plaza, a Spanish journalist who recently published a book about Palomares, said the accident had a profound psychological "hibakusha impact," the term used to refer to survivors of the American nuclear bombs dropped on Japan in 1945.
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WASHINGTON — A White House official said on Thursday that it would be "catastrophic" to adopt a proposal by Donald J. Trump, the Republican front-runner, that Japan and South Korea manufacture their own nuclear bombs to deter North Korea.
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We watch seemingly weekly launches of the terrifying weapons in North Korea, including intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of reaching the West Coast of the United States, hydrogen and nuclear bombs, as well as provocative action toward Japan and Guam.
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Given how many nuclear bombs North Korea has illicitly built since Clinton and Bush negotiated the ill-fated deals with it in the past, we need to expand our focus to long-range and medium-range missiles as well.
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The Eurofighter would still need to be certified to carry nuclear bombs, a process that could take until 2030 or longer, and might force Germany to extend the life of some Tornado jets at great cost, according to U.S. military experts.
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But a deal of that sort is a nightmare for America's closest allies in the region, South Korea and Japan, who would be left at the mercy of North Korea's short- and medium-range missiles, possibly tipped with nuclear bombs.
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The launches are a setback for Trump, who has repeatedly lauded North Korea's freeze in testing of nuclear bombs and long-range missiles since 2017 as he seeks a big foreign policy win while campaigning for re-election in 2020.
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When nuclear bombs are detonated like they were by the United States in the Pacific Ocean during the 1950s and 1960s, chlorine-36 is one of the radioactive isotopes released into the air as neutrons react with the chlorine in seawater.
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Raising alarm in a country North Korea has threatened to destroy, amid tension over its relentless development of nuclear bombs and missiles, was a square plate attached to the boat reading: "Korean People's Army, No. 854 military unit" in Korean script.
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The scientists describe why it would be impossible to use a bomb to disrupt a hurricane: We don't have nuclear bombs powerful enough for the task, nor the financial resources to build enough new bombs to combat even one hurricane.
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The United States tried similar projects throughout the Cold War, beginning with nuclear- powered jet engines and ending with a Supersonic Low Altitude Missile (SLAM) that would drop nuclear bombs before stuttering to a halt when it ran out of fuel.
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He hopes to repeat something of the same on Friday, bolstered by the deal with world powers under which Iran curbed activities that might have been applied to developing nuclear bombs and secured a lifting of economic sanctions in return.
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Slamming into the atmosphere at 20 kilometers per second (45,000 miles per hour), the 10,000-ton object unleashed the energy of 30 nuclear bombs when it burst, causing injuries and structural damage within the blast radius of about 60 miles.
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While Kim still has nuclear bombs and missiles, and has surely added to both arsenals since Trump took over, it's much less likely now that he would use them against the United States or its Asian allies, some experts say.
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While an American-led military campaign largely vanquished the Islamic State, Mr. Obama's 2009 nonproliferation resolution did nothing to prevent North Korea from making new nuclear bombs, although he did negotiate the deal that blocked Iran's ability to do so.
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As the 2017-18 school year begins, Houston is struggling to recover from one of the most destructive storms in the nation's history, North Korea is detonating nuclear bombs and people all over are still grappling with the events in Charlottesville.
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Evidence collected since the summit points to preparations to deceive the U.S. about the number of nuclear warheads in North Korea&aposs arsenal as well as the existence of undisclosed facilities used to make fissile material for nuclear bombs, according to the report.
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There is little proven knowledge about the quantities of weapons-grade uranium or plutonium that North Korea possesses, or its ability to produce either, though plutonium from spent fuel at Yongbyon is widely believed to have been used in its nuclear bombs.
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Yes, it seems probable that the witches will save the world, but with the threat of nuclear bombs fast-approaching, there only seems one way to do so: Stop Antichrist Michael Langdon (Cody Fern), not in present-day… but in the past.
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That's far from the only news that Gizmodo covered this week, including a journey to map Chicago's spotty 5G networks, the U.S. case against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, the Snapocalypse, scientists fighting back against misinterpreted mouse studies, and what nuclear bombs sound like.
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The reactor could be used to produce weapons-grade plutonium, but North Korea is believed to already have enough fissile material for multiple nuclear bombs, according to Joshua Pollack, a senior research associate at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.
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Lockheed last week won a U.S. contract valued at up to $83.1 million to develop, integrate and test the needed software and hardware required for the F-35A to carry B61-12 nuclear bombs, with the work to be completed in February 2024.
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Read More: Programmable Bioweapons Could Be the Nuclear Bombs of Future Wars "Chemical samples absorb and emit [light] at characteristic wavelengths that may be detected using laboratory, ground-based and airborne [...] sensors in the laboratory or field," the request for proposal states.
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Image 2 of 2 SEOUL, South Korea – It may be the strangest feeling in decades to descend on the Korean Peninsula — a wave of optimism, and not always of the cautious variety, when it comes to North Korea and its nuclear bombs.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany is pressing Washington to clarify whether it would let the Eurofighter Typhoon carry nuclear bombs as part of shared Western defenses, an issue that could help decide whether Berlin orders more of the jets, sources familiar with the matter said.
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HANOI (Reuters) - While the leaders of North Korea and the United States debate banishing nuclear bombs from the Korean peninsula, the host of their summit this week, Vietnam, long almost synonymous with war, is relishing its role as a promoter of peace.
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EMP weapons have been a standard device in science fiction since the beginning of the Cold War, when testing showed that nuclear bombs could release an EMP big enough to disrupt and even permanently damage electrical systems on a city wide scale.
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Barack Obama, America's president, has made nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament something of a pet cause, pushing for a nuclear deal with Iran and visiting Hiroshima, one of the two Japanese cities on which America dropped nuclear bombs during the second world war.
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In NSC 2000, a lengthy top-secret report produced in 21957 that is arguably the most famous national security document of the nuclear age, intelligence analysts estimated by the mid-decade the Soviets would possess an arsenal of around 27 nuclear bombs.
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Even when missile defense was first conceived during the Cold War, it was sold to the American public as a defense against the emerging Chinese nuclear capability of a few nuclear bombs, not the Russian nuclear capability of thousands of nuclear weapons.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is also a textbook publishing giant, and editors in that division happened to see page proofs of "Thing Explainer," which attempts to explain concepts like tectonic plates, cells and nuclear bombs using just the thousand most common words in English.
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At the time, he was two years into his job as a botanist for the Department of Agriculture and working on a federal project, ultimately abandoned, to determine the feasibility of excavating an alternative to the Panama Canal using low-level nuclear bombs.
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The authors are clear and convincing that war from the "high ground" of space is exponentially more dangerous than any warfare the human race has engaged in thus far, capable of efficiently delivering nuclear bombs, with their power to annihilate the entire planet.
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North Korea has made its nuclear bombs small and light enough — weighing under 500 kilograms, or about 1,100 pounds — to be fitted onto its missiles, though it is still unclear whether they are fully weaponized, Mr. Song, the defense minister, said last week.
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WASHINGTON — In some of the most conciliatory remarks to North Korea made by the Trump administration, Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson complimented the government in Pyongyang for going more than two weeks without shooting any missiles or blowing up any nuclear bombs.
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That was to include the number of weapons they have produced — variously estimated at 20 to 60 nuclear bombs — the locations of those weapons, any nuclear materials used to produce new weapons and a detailed list of their missiles and missile launchers.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump will meet in Hanoi on Wednesday and Thursday, hoping to build on a commitment they made at their first meeting, in Singapore in June, to rid the Korean peninsula of nuclear bombs.
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At the same time, she shared Washington's "strategic patience," a policy of squeezing North Korea with sanctions and offering serious deals only if it agreed to give up its nuclear weapons, even when the North was known to be stocking fuel for more nuclear bombs.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea said on Tuesday it had conducted a joint drill with a U.S. supersonic B-1B Lancer bomber after North Korea's state media earlier accused the United States of staging a drill to practise dropping nuclear bombs on the Korean peninsula.
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Just as the United States has doubled down on its sanctions on Pyongyang, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has not retreated from his pledge to expand his operational force of nuclear bombs and ballistic missiles, increasing his leverage under any still-elusive denuclearization deal.
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Evidence collected since the Singapore summit points to preparations to deceive the U.S. about the number of nuclear warheads in North Korea&aposs arsenal as well as the existence of undisclosed facilities used to make fissile material for nuclear bombs, according to the report.
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Instead of the maximalist, celebrity-driven, intoxicant culture of '70s television — Nixon, Star Wars, shag rugs, cocaine, nuclear bombs — we now have the flattened, participatory, somehow salutary aesthetic of avocado toast, Outdoor Voices leggings, reclaimed wood, Sky Ting yoga classes, and succulents in ceramic planters.
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Further, in the absence of more financial contributions, Trump also suggested that Saudi Arabia, South Korea and Japan, should protect themselves, even to the point of acquiring nuclear bombs, widening the risk of massive nuclear proliferation and raising the risk of an atomic war.
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" In fact, Lee explained, even though the launches from the last few days were not nuclear bombs or long-range missiles, "they do threaten South Korea and Japan, putting pressure on those U.S. allies to challenge and pressure Washington as nuclear negotiations get underway.
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One proposal calls for Germany to buy 40-45 Lockheed F-35 jets to replace those Tornados that can carry nuclear bombs, and about 75 new Eurofighters to replace both the other Tornados and a first batch of Eurofighters delivered between 2003 and 2008.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration plans to kill a project it says would have cost tens of billions of dollars to convert plutonium from Cold War-era nuclear bombs and burn it to generate electricity, according to a document it sent to Congress last week.
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Hwang Jang-yop, a former mentor to the late Kim Jong Il and North Korea's highest-ranking defector before he died in 2010, once told a Japanese newspaper that Jon had approached him to ask if they could "make a few more nuclear bombs".
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President Donald Trump has reportedly suggested dropping nuclear bombs into hurricanes to stop the storms from hitting the US.But according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, this idea is impossible because there isn't a nuclear bomb powerful enough to continuously disrupt a hurricane.
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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said last week that North Korea was continuing to produce fuel for nuclear bombs despite the country's leader Kim Jong Un vowing to work toward denuclearisation during a summit with U.S. President Donald Trump in Singapore last month.
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Long story short: A bungled safety test performed during the early morning hours of April 20183, 1986 caused reactor number four of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant to overheat, blow off the reactor's 1,000-ton steel top, and generate an explosion the equivalent of 230 nuclear bombs.
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There is debate among analysts about the exact state of the North's nuclear capabilities — many believe Pyongyang has a handful of crude nuclear bombs — but each nuclear and missile test pushes them farther along in their goal of a nuclear-armed arsenal of long-range missiles.
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Evidence collected since the June 12 summit in Singapore points to preparations to deceive the U.S. about the number of nuclear warheads in North Korea's arsenal as well as the existence of undisclosed facilities used to make fissile material for nuclear bombs, according to the report.
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SEOUL, May 30 (Reuters) - South Korea said on Tuesday it had conducted a joint drill with a U.S. supersonic B-1B Lancer bomber after North Korea's state media earlier accused the United States of staging a drill to practise dropping nuclear bombs on the Korean peninsula.
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In theory, round after round of increasingly stringent sanctions imposed on North Korea, particularly targeting its exports, ships, and banks, should have prevented or at least discouraged Pyongyang from continuing to engage in any arms sales, let alone materials that can be used to build nuclear bombs.
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Asked about support for the strike from within the Democratic Party and even former Obama administration officials, Sanders said the Syria strike, as well as the US dropping one of its largest non-nuclear bombs in Afghanistan, were ineffective for problems that required a multilateral, diplomatic solution.
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Others, however, are less sanguine about the will for more American missiles to come to Japan; one additional challenge for the U.S. might be convincing the Japanese public, the only populace ever attacked with nuclear bombs, that newly deployed American missiles would only be conventionally armed.
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The United States has been trying to persuade China, North Korea's lone major ally, to do more to rein in Pyongyang, which has conducted dozens of missile launches and tested two nuclear bombs since the start of last year, in defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions.
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Seemingly out of the blue on Thursday, the US military for the first time deployed a bomb called the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB), the third-most powerful explosive that America has ever used in battle after the two nuclear bombs dropped on Japan.
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On Tuesday, Sung Kim, Washington's top official dealing with North Korea, and his South Korean counterpart, Kim Hong-kyun, reiterated that the South did not need to build its own nuclear bombs or to reintroduce American tactical atomic bombs that were withdrawn in the early 1990s.
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In the late 1950s, consulting for General Atomics in San Diego, he helped design the Triga reactor, which is used for scientific research and nuclear medicine, and worked on Project Orion, which aimed to explore the solar system with an enormous spaceship powered by exploding nuclear bombs.
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Kim said there were no grounds for North Korea to be bound any longer by a self-declared moratorium on testing nuclear bombs and intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM), according to a statement on the results of the policy meeting carried by the official KCNA news agency.
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Experts worry that these two revelations could hurt America's nuclear negotiations with North Korea by convincing leader Kim Jong Un that Trump would be willing to order an assassination strike against him — which is a really strong reason for Kim to hold onto his nuclear bombs and missiles.
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Trump, who has been eager to show success on the North Korean issue ahead of his 2020 re-election bid, has played down the launches and noted that Kim has stuck to his pledge not to resume tests of intercontinental ballistic missiles and nuclear bombs suspended since 2017.
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Iran's effort to step up production of enriched uranium, which is used to make reactor fuel and potentially nuclear bombs, comes just a year after Trump abandoned the Obama-era nuclear deal that had been signed along with five world powers and reinstated harsh economic sanctions on the country.
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The Prime Minister also said the completion of the project was just as important as if North Korea had "dropped a hundred nuclear bombs" -- asserting that North Korea is just as dedicated to growing its economy and living standards as it is to growing its nuclear and missile capabilities.
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Unsurprisingly, he demonstrated real familiarity with nuclear policy issues — making clear that he sees nukes as a deterrent and is deeply hostile to their use, implying opposition to the creation of a drone that could drop nuclear bombs, supporting modernizing all three legs of the triad, and the like.
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In the Herbert George Wells classic novel and its science fiction movie versions, "The War of the Worlds," those invading aliens who are ravaging planet Earth are finally done in not by guns, tanks, the combined armies of all the countries of the world, or even nuclear bombs.
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After scrapping the drill, the thinking goes, North Korea may be more willing to give up some of its nuclear capabilities, like long-range missiles, the blueprints to build more nuclear bombs, or even some of its conventional weaponry that threaten around 26 million people in and around Seoul.
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U.S. Secretary State Mike Pompeo told Congress in July that North Korea was continuing to produce fuel for nuclear bombs in spite of its pledge to denuclearize, even as he argued - as he has continued to do - that the Trump administration was making progress in talks with Pyongyang.
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According to Nukemap, a website developed by Alex Wellerstein, a nuclear historian at the Stevens Institute of Technology, as a means of estimating the casualties resulting from nuclear bombs, a 100 kiloton nuclear bomb aimed at lower Manhattan would kill nearly 600,000 people instantly and could injure another 1.3 million.
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Life Noggins explains that in a simulation with 100 nuclear bombs being dropped between Pakistan and India, black carbon would rise to the stratosphere and absorb sunlight which would increase the temperature up there while decreasing the temperature on the surface of the Earth and in the water of the oceans.
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A new study published in Environment Magazine warns that a scaled down version of a nuclear winter is still possible through the application of limited nuclear strikes, and that these so-called "nuclear autumns" could be caused by as few as five conventional nuclear bombs—and possibly even just one.
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Read more: Meet Belle Delphine, the Instagram star who sold her bathwater by the bottle to 'thirsty gamer boys'The Bahamas looks like 'nuclear bombs were dropped' after Hurricane Dorian, says US aid groupAn Instagram travel couple say the 'stupid beyond belief' photo of them hanging off a cliff was 'not dangerous'
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President Trump has suggested multiple times to senior Homeland Security and national security officials that they explore using nuclear bombs to stop hurricanes from hitting the United States, according to sources who have heard the president's private remarks and been briefed on a National Security Council memorandum that recorded those comments.
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It is a vital U.S. interest that Iran not acquire a nuclear weapon, because it would threaten Europe and U.S. allies in the region and because it would most likely prompt Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Egypt also to acquire nuclear bombs, making the unstable Middle East a nuclear powder keg.
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The director of a US federal aid agency told reporters on Sunday that the Bahamas looks like "nuclear bombs were dropped" as it begins to rebuild after Hurricane Dorian, which pummeled the islands with intense rain and strong winds for nearly two full days and caused the deaths of at least 50 people.
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Mr. Trump has repeatedly congratulated himself for — in his view — having successfully executed such a pressure strategy against North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, describing it as critical to Mr. Kim's decision to halt testing nuclear bombs and missiles and engage with Mr. Trump in a summit meeting last month in Singapore.
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But the flow of Owen's journey also sometimes bogs down in distracting asides, from lodging recommendations to incompletely explored tidbits of provocative history like the mass-killing Anglo-Irish hunter Sir St. George Gore, for whom one canyon Owen visited is named, or the effort to frack free natural gas with nuclear bombs.
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It has been known for decades that exposure at even very low doses to beryllium — a strong, lightweight metal used to make computers, aircraft parts and nuclear bombs — can cause chronic beryllium disease, a disabling and potentially fatal lung ailment, in a small percentage of workers with a genetic susceptibility to it.
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Independent experts say the North could have enough fissile material for anywhere between about a dozen and 60 nuclear bombs, and last year it tested long-range missiles that could reach the U.S. Trump is also wrong to say there was an assumption before he took office that the United States would go to war.
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And as Joanna would do in the '60s and '70s, [Merrill] was working in the '50s and hoping that the next big break would come, that the space race would make science fiction central to the literary world, and then of course that nuclear bombs would make science fiction central to the literary world.
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Should the United States end up going to war with either Iran or North Korea, there is another concern from the Iraq war era that has not received much public attention: the possibility that former regime elements may use chemical or biological weapons or set off dirty or nuclear bombs against American and allied troops.
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A North Korea with 30, 50 or 100 nuclear bombs and the ability to deliver them to the United States (and perhaps a desire to sell them, too) would be much more dangerous than the current situation, in which Pyongyang possesses perhaps one to two dozen bombs and an unreliable means of delivering them.
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Speaking to Reuters on the sidelines of a Euromoney conference in Paris, Araqchi said there was no link between its influence in the Middle East region and the accord, under which Iran restricted its production of enriched uranium - a potential source of nuclear bombs as well as civilian energy - in exchange for a removal of international sanctions.
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In fact, as the US government was mulling over the possibility of a Soviet missile installation in Cuba, Soviet ships were carrying 23,000 troops, 42 medium range ballistic missiles, each capable of carrying a one megaton nuclear warhead, 12 tactical nuclear weapons, 80 nuclear-armed cruise missiles and a force of Il-28 bombers with nuclear bombs.
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"The world has been waiting for this legal norm for 70 years," said Whyte Gomez, referring to the nuclear bombs the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 during World War II. Earlier this week, tensions between the U.S. and North Korea markedly escalated after Pyongyang conducted its first successful test of an intercontinental ballistic missile.
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As part of the boilermakers' union, he was sent from neighboring Kentucky to work on one of the two nuclear bombs that ended the war in the Pacific, traveling to Oak Ridge, Tennessee, along with 75,000 others who uprooted their lives to contribute -- without knowing what the ultimate objective of the project was -- to the US war effort.
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Speaking to Reuters on the sidelines of a Euromoney conference in Paris, Araqchi said there was no link between its influence in the Middle East region and the accord, under which Iran restricted its production of enriched uranium - a potential source of nuclear bombs as well as civilian energy - in exchange for a removal of international sanctions.
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But at the same time, Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoCotton warns China: Crackdown on Hong Kong would be 'grave miscalculation' Pompeo expresses concern over North Korea missile tests Pompeo acknowledges 'places where ISIS is more powerful today' MORE admitted to senators last week that North Korea is still producing the material necessary to make nuclear bombs.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpOur justice system must reward success Former Biden economic adviser: 'I really like a lot of' Warren's tax proposals Roy Moore calls for Omar to go back from 'whence she came' MORE on Tuesday again lashed out at Axios over the outlet's report that the president suggested using nuclear bombs to stop hurricanes.
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There is no need to justify why our military would take every precaution necessary to ensure that the men and women in uniform handling nuclear weapons were fit to do so, whether they were in charge of a missile silo or loading nuclear bombs onto aircraft — or giving the orders to them, on up the chain of command.
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Among the big-picture items: $100 billion for the Navy to build 12 new nuclear submarines; at least $55 billion (and likely far more) for the Air Force to build new nuclear stealth bombers; and tens of billions more on other Air Force efforts to build new nuclear cruise and ballistic missiles and modernize its B-61 nuclear bombs.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump has floated multiple times the idea of thwarting hurricanes headed for the US by bombing them, including by dropping nuclear bombs on hurricanes to disrupt their course, Axios reported Sunday, citing conversations with sources who heard Trump's comments and were briefed on a National Security Council memo that recorded the comments.
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Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoAfghan president vows to take revenge after Islamic State attack on wedding The Hill's Morning Report - Trump on defense over economic jitters Latest pro-democracy rally draws tens of thousands in Hong Kong MORE, meanwhile, told senators last week that North Korea is still producing the material necessary to make nuclear bombs.
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It was only after the George W. Bush administration abandoned this effort — over the initial objections of former Secretary of State Colin Powell — that North Korea's nuclear program resumed in earnest, leading to the situation today, where that country has a small stockpile on nuclear bombs and is making progress on building a missile that can reach U.S. territory.
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But as others have observed, the central reason is this: Militarily, even if it could slow North Korea's ability to threaten North America with long-range, nuclear-tipped missiles, it could not eliminate Kim's existing arsenal of perhaps dozens of nuclear bombs plus a suite of shorter-range missiles that could probably carry them to points throughout the region.
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The standard thinking goes that he needs quick help to stabilize and then rebuild an economy that has suffered amid a decades-long pursuit of nuclear bombs, and that the North Koreans see a unique chance to win concessions, legitimacy and protection from a meeting with a highly unconventional U.S. president who&aposs willing to consider options past American leaders would not.
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So now China's ambivalence has led to this crisis: North Korea has enough fissile material for perhaps as many as 21 nuclear bombs and, after a flurry of missile tests, is approaching the day when it can produce a warhead small enough to fit on a missile and threaten the United States as well as American allies in the region.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpOur justice system must reward success Former Biden economic adviser: 'I really like a lot of' Warren's tax proposals Roy Moore calls for Omar to go back from 'whence she came' MORE has floated dropping nuclear bombs into hurricanes to stop them from hitting the United States in meetings with Homeland Security and national security officials, Axios reported Sunday.
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Despite years of unilateral sanctions by the United States and years spent by our country building global support for unprecedented sanctions that united our closest European friends with China and Russia, Iran's nuclear program grew until they had enough low enriched uranium that, if they took the next step in the fuel cycle, they'd have had enough to produce 10 nuclear bombs.
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Wellerstin is a professor at Stevens Institute of Technology and the creator of the Nukemap, a website that lets people see the effects of nuclear bombs in their area; Buddemeier is a radiation safety specialist in the Global Security directorate of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Calhoun is the Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosions Planner at New York City's Office of Emergency Management.
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Yet the presence of these weapons — an estimated 20 American B61 nuclear bombs to be carried and delivered by the Belgian Air Force's dwindling inventory of F-16 fighter jets — did not come up in the news coverage following the Islamic State (IS) bombings last week in Brussels, or in the run-up to President Barack Obama's fourth and last Nuclear Security Summit, being held this week.
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Yet the presence of these weapons — an estimated 22008 American B210 nuclear bombs to be carried and delivered by the Belgian Air Force's dwindling inventory of F-22003 fighter jets — did not come up in the news coverage following the Islamic State (IS) bombings last week in Brussels, or in the run-up to President Barack Obama's fourth and last Nuclear Security Summit, being held this week.
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As an individual who was not an eyewitness to these events in Japanese and Japanese American history — from Pearl Harbor, the internment of Japanese Americans, and the dropping of nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to the rebuilding of Japan after World War II and the nuclear catastrophe at Fukushima — how do you approach them, especially as they are part of your history and helped shaped you?
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The North makes progress with each new nuclear test — it staged its fourth in January — but many experts say its arsenal may consist only of still-crude nuclear bombs; there's uncertainty about whether they've mastered the miniaturization process needed to mount bombs on warheads and widespread doubt about whether they have a reliable long-range missile that could deliver such a bomb to the U.S. mainland.
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Given the reports that trickle out every few hours these days—a recent story about Trump asking the National Security Council to look into using nuclear bombs to disperse hurricanes is only slightly crazier than the median leak—one must imagine that Mattis, who served as Secretary of Defense, had a better sense of the president's fitness for office than just about anyone else in the country.
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That policy failed to constrain a program that has produced enough fissile material for about 21 nuclear bombs and enabled Pyongyang to accelerate the development of missiles that could carry warheads to hit Japan, South Korea and, one day, the United States — and that has people like China's foreign minister, Wang Yi, warning of a "head-on collision" between North Korea and the United States.
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According to the outline of the tentative deal — which, again, could very likely change between now and the summit — North Korea will agree to close its Yongbyon nuclear facility in exchange for some modest sanctions relief from the US. Yongbyon, which one leading expert called "the heart of their nuclear program," is the only place (that we know of) where the country can make plutonium for nuclear bombs.
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Each high-speed cloud of particles can pack the explosive energy of thousands or even millions of nuclear bombs: If they're aimed at Earth and strike it, the high-energy particles can bend and snap the magnetic field lines of our planet, trigger powerful geomagnetic storms, and randomly induce electrical currents throughout the world: Humanity first learned about geomagnetic storms the hard way during the 1859 Carrington Event.
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The North gave two reasons for its ire: long-scheduled military exercises between America and South Korea, to which it had previously acquiesced (although it may have been surprised by the involvement of Stealth fighters, which could be used in a "decapitation" strike, and B-52s, which can carry nuclear bombs), and America's insistence that it must unilaterally forswear nuclear arms—the very condition on which America agreed to talks in the first place.
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And radiation is a scary word for a lot of people, thanks in part to the horrific aftermath of nuclear accidents and photographs of victims of the nuclear bombs the US dropped on Japan in World War II. People hear radiation and they associate it with nuclear radiation and the bomb, says Geoffrey Kabat, a cancer epidemiologist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and author of the book Getting Risk Right.
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There's a lot of meandering plot that brings these two together — White Kevin is instructed to set off a series of nuclear bombs that will trigger a global catastrophe on the seventh anniversary of the Sudden Departure, and Black Kevin is meant to stop him — but the meat of the story is in a private bunker, where White Kevin is brief by his Secretary of Defense, who happens to be Patty Levin, the woman he killed.
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And while Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoCotton warns China: Crackdown on Hong Kong would be 'grave miscalculation' Pompeo expresses concern over North Korea missile tests Pompeo acknowledges 'places where ISIS is more powerful today' MORE admitted to senators this week that North Korea is still producing the material necessary to make nuclear bombs, experts say that is something to be expected — and not necessarily a sign of faltering diplomacy — as bilateral talks develop.
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Read more about North Korea's weapons program: North Korea Tests a Ballistic Missile That Experts Say Could Hit California As North Korea Speeds Its Nuclear Program, U.S. Fears Time Will Run Out What One Photo Tells Us About North Korea's Nuclear Program North Korea May Be Preparing Its 6th Nuclear Test The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution on Saturday to impose new sanctions on North Korea for defying a ban on testing missiles and nuclear bombs.
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While analysts are unsure whether to believe North Korea's claim that it has miniaturized nuclear bombs, allowing them to be placed on missiles, any American president would have to weigh the potential risk to Anchorage's population of 300,000, roughly equivalent to all American military casualties in World War II. There is another force working in North Korea's favor, known as "first-strike instability," in which both sides must fear that any exchange, however small, will escalate to nuclear launches.
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The rebooted "X-Files," which premieres on Sunday, probably couldn't have ignored this development, and so — spoiler alert — it opts to embrace it, throwing the protagonists, Mulder and Scully, together with a conservative 9/11 truther named Tad O'Malley, who's investigating a plot so vast that it includes nuclear bombs, alien-human hybridization and a takeover of the entire world using weather manipulation, junk food, the Patriot Act, military and police actions and, somewhat oddly, the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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Former Secretary of State Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonPoll: Support rises for 2020 Democrats favoring 'Medicare for All' Overlooked Nevada seeks to pack a bigger punch in 2020 race Trump to hold campaign rally in North Carolina day before special House election MORE on Monday took a swipe at President TrumpDonald John TrumpOur justice system must reward success Former Biden economic adviser: 'I really like a lot of' Warren's tax proposals Roy Moore calls for Omar to go back from 'whence she came' MORE following a report that he floated the idea of dropping nuclear bombs into hurricanes to prevent them from reaching the United States.
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