News tagged with nuclear bomb
Diamond mining is not forever, SAfrica learns
Aug 23, 2009 |
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The glittering diamonds are almost gone and as the lustre fades on South Africa's Diamond Coast, desperate ghost towns are left clinging to the last signs of life.
Lamont-Doherty Seismologists Show Latest Korean Blast Larger Than 2006 Nuclear Test
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Columbia seismologists who have intensively studied North Korea’s nuclear testing efforts say Monday’s blast was certainly a nuclear bomb, roughly five times larger than the country’s first ...
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Nuclear scientist says first Soviet A-bomb 'miracle': report
Aug 30, 2009 |
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A nuclear scientist involved in the Soviet Union's first atomic test 60 years ago hailed it "a miracle" Saturday and called for a national day of celebration, RIA Novosti news agency reported.
Scientists discover historic sample of bomb-grade plutonium
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Feb 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in Washington state are reporting the surprise discovery of the oldest known sample of reactor-produced bomb-grade plutonium, a historic relic from the infancy of America’s nuclear weapons program. ...
Link between unexploded munitions in oceans and cancer-causing toxins determined
Feb 18, 2009 |
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During a research trip to Puerto Rico, ecologist James Porter took samples from underwater nuclear bomb target USS Killen, expecting to find evidence of radioactive matter - instead he found a link to cancer. ...
Physicists say there's an urgent need for nuclear detectives
Feb 17, 2008 |
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A terrorist nuclear explosion devastates Manhattan, but no group takes credit. The pressure on the U.S. president to retaliate is intense. Acting on sketchy information, the president orders an attack, but it turns out to ...
Healing heart attack victims, one cell at a time
Apr 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- By using the amount of carbon 14 in the atmosphere from above-ground nuclear testing in the 1950s and 1960, researchers have determined that cells in the human heart develop into adulthood.
Study of baby teeth yields new findings on nuclear fallout
Oct 21, 2009 |
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Joan Ketterer still recalls the button her son Edward got for donating his baby teeth to what was then a ground-breaking study looking at the effect of nuclear fallout on children born in the St. Louis-area in the 1960s.
Cell phone sensors detect radiation to thwart nuclear terrorism
Jan 22, 2008 |
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Researchers at Purdue University are working with the state of Indiana to develop a system that would use a network of cell phones to detect and track radiation to help prevent terrorist attacks with radiological ...
Bulletin of Atomic Scientists 60 years old
Nov 30, 2005 |
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The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists celebrates its 60th anniversary Saturday with ceremonies in Chicago.
Baby teeth re-studied for effects of radiation fallout
Jan 06, 2009 |
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Questionnaires will soon be sent to thousands of men who donated their baby teeth half a century ago to scientists seeking to learn whether radioactive fallout in milk the donors drank as children affected their health later ...
Wasteland and wilderness
Oct 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Harvard science historian and physicist Peter Galison is using part of his Radcliffe year to explore the intersections of forbidden wilderness and nuclear wasteland.
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