horizontal proliferation of nuclear weapons
1Nuclear weapon design — The first nuclear weapons, though large, cumbersome and inefficient, provided the basic design building blocks of all future weapons. Here the Gadget device is prepared for the first nuclear test: Trinity. Nuclear weapon designs are physical,… …
2Nuclear bunker buster — Subsidence craters left over after underground nuclear (test) explosions Bunker busting nuclear weapons, also known as earth penetrating weapons (EPW), are a type of nuclear weapon designed to penetrate into soil, rock, or concrete to deliver a… …
3Nuclear power in Japan — The Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant, a 3 unit BWR site typical of Japan s nuclear plants …
4Effects of nuclear explosions — An American nuclear test. Nuclear weapons …
5Underground nuclear testing — Preparation for an underground nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site in the 1990s. Nuclear weapons …
6Economics of new nuclear power plants — The economics of new nuclear power plants is a controversial subject, since there are diverging views on this topic, and multi billion dollar investments ride on the choice of an energy source. Nuclear power plants typically have high capital… …
72006 North Korean nuclear test — Infobox Military Test Site name = North Korean nuclear test caption = Graphic from the United States Geological Survey showing seismic activity at the time of the test type = Nuclear test site coordinates = coord|41.2943|N|129.1342|E|region:KP… …
8Korea, North — Introduction Korea, North Background: Following World War II, Korea was split with the northern half coming under Communist domination and the southern portion becoming Western oriented. KIM Chong il has ruled North Korea since his father and the …
9environment — environmental, adj. environmentally, adv. /en vuy reuhn meuhnt, vuy euhrn /, n. 1. the aggregate of surrounding things, conditions, or influences; surroundings; milieu. 2. Ecol. the air, water, minerals, organisms, and all other external factors… …
10United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …
