Instead, Kim Jong Il restarted his programs, tested more missiles and their first nuclear explosion.
Secondly, and most importantly, NONE of these incidents were caused by a nuclear explosion per se.
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India used just such technologies and materials for its first nuclear explosion in 1974.
In 1996, China carried out a nuclear explosion at its Lop Nor nuclear testing ground measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale.
But in 1963 the Limited Test Ban Treaty prohibited any nuclear explosion that sent radioactivity over a nation's borders.
Imprecise and badly drafted, the treaty leaves critical terms like "nuclear explosion" undefined.
This is why the nuclear explosion and the missile tests by North Korea couldn't have happened at a worse time.
The news media jumped in, but of course their job is to make a mouse fart sound like it's a nuclear explosion.
But the country in 2010 publicly revealed its effort to develop highly enriched uranium, another material that can trigger a nuclear explosion.
That reactor type is not ideal for producing weapons-grade plutonium, but all reactors produce plutonium that could be used in a nuclear explosion.
It can guide a drone to the site of a nuclear explosion by following the plume of gamma radiation where no onboard pilot could safely venture.
He just stoked class warfare to manipulate the citizens of Gotham City into doing what he wanted, which was to create chaos before the inevitable nuclear explosion.
Since 1998, his efforts to reconstitute his nuclear program have been focused on acquiring the third and last component, sufficient fissile material to produce a nuclear explosion.
This last point is quite important, as Bigelow needs us to believe that a nuclear explosion so close to a Nato base could have triggered World War III.
Shatter cones are surface features with distinctive wavy patterns that are known to be created only by the tremendous force of a meteorite impact or an underground nuclear explosion.
But we also need to acquire and perfect the technology to detonate a nuclear explosion in space that would be sufficiently powerful to alter a huge object's course and send it into unpopulated space.
When excitement was hard to come by aboard a nuclear submarine in the early stretches of "Crimson Tide, " he turned a fat fire on a stove in the sub's galley into something just short of a nuclear explosion.
Pyongyang is angry about ongoing U.S.-South Korean military drills and about new U.N. sanctions, issued over the North's December long-range rocket launch, which the U.N. called a cover for a banned missile test, and its third underground nuclear explosion, conducted Feb. 12.
There was a moment when there existed the danger of a nuclear explosion, and they had to get the water out from under the reactor, so that a mixture of uranium and graphite wouldn't get into it with the water they would have formed a critical mass.
And if the life of an entire city were on the line, I think we can all agree that none of us would object to the use of the most extreme forms of torture if it might provide the needed information to stop a nuclear explosion or some other weapon of mass destruction.
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That may seem like only a short time ago, but an incoming technological explosion of nuclear proportions isn't so far-fetched when you consider everything that's changed just between then and now.
The product can be used as a neutron initiator: the component of a nuclear bomb that triggers an explosion.
Furthermore, it would take a combination of extreme events to make things dangerous in Tokyo (nuclear re-criticality, steam explosion) etc all of which are being rendered less and less likely as time passes and the heat decay process progresses.
And the bottom line is that once we got past the news of a third explosion at the Japanese nuclear facility in Fukushima and word that radiation levels were rising, the news was actually pretty good for the remainder of the day.
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At 6:14 a.m.(4:14p.m EST) another explosion occurred at the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
At the Fukushima nuclear power plants, fears of another explosion remain high.
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The government announced that the explosion at an earthquake-damaged nuclear plant is not causing radiation to leak, as had been widely feared and suspected.
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Nuclear test monitors in Vienna say the underground explosion had double the force of the last test, in 2009, despite the use of a device said by the North to be smaller.
TOKYO Japan's nuclear crisis showed signs of spinning out of control Tuesday, after officials reported a third explosion and warned of possible damage to a critical reactor container at the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear-power complex.
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