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61Depleted uranium — The DU penetrator of a 30 mm round[1] Depleted uranium (DU; also referred to in the past as Q metal, depletalloy, or D 38) is uranium with a lower content of the fissile isotope U 235 than natural uranium (natural uranium is about 99.27% uranium… …
62Samuel Cohen — Samuel T. Cohen (born 1921 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American physicist who is known for inventing the W70 warhead and the enhanced neutron weapon or neutron bomb. In the 1990s he advocated investigation of terrorist threats like red mercury… …
63Nuclear weapons in popular culture — A nuclear fireball lights up the night in a United States nuclear test. Since their public debut in August 1945, nuclear weapons and their potential effects have been a recurring motif in popular culture,[1] to the extent that the decades of the …
64Man-made hazard — A man made hazard is a threat having an element of human intent, negligence, error or involving a failure of a system. Man made disasters are the result of man made hazards for which adequate emergency management measures have not been adopted.… …
65NBC suit — Two Canadian soldiers wearing NBC suits An NBC (Nuclear, Biological, Chemical) suit is a type of military personal protective equipment designed to provide protection against direct contact with and contamination by radioactive, biological or… …
66Plutonium in the environment — is an article which is part of the actinides in the environment series. Almost all plutonium present in the environment is due to human activity because the majority of plutonium isotopes are shortlived on a geological timescale.… …
67Materials MASINT — Intelligence Cycle Management Collection Management MASINT Electro optical MASINT Nuclear MASINT Geophysical MASINT Radar MASINT Materials MASINT Radiofrequency MASINT Materials MASINT is one of the six major disciplines generally accepted to… …
68Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment —   …
69Windscale fire — The Windscale Piles (centre and right) in 1985. The Windscale fire of 10 October 1957 was the worst nuclear accident in Great Britain s history, ranked in severity at level 5 on the 7 point International Nuclear Event Scale.[1] The two piles had… …
70Divine Strake — was the official designation for a large yield, non nuclear, high explosive test that was planned for the Nevada Test Site. Following its announcement, the test generated great controversy, centering on two issues: its potential value in… …
