Sentence examples for a uranium weapon from inspiring English sources

"It's inevitable that sooner or later they will want us to know they can make a uranium weapon," said Mr. Samore, the former Obama adviser.

It could also mean that it plans its first test of a uranium weapon, created from a new uranium-enrichment program that it showed two years ago to a visiting American scientist.

American officials will also be looking for signs of whether the North, for the first time, conducted a test of a uranium weapon, based on a uranium enrichment capability it has been pursuing for a decade.

In April, Emilio Segrè discovered that plutonium made in reactors would not work in a gun-type plutonium weapon like the "Thin Man", which was being developed in parallel with a uranium weapon, the "Little Boy" that was dropped on Hiroshima.

More probably, the report said, soldiers in a tank hit by a depleted uranium weapon could expect a 2% extra risk of death from lung cancer - out of 1,000 soldiers in vehicles disabled by depleted uranium shells, 59 might die of lung cancer.

It warned staff members not to approach any target that might have been hit by a depleted uranium weapon.

The United States sent aloft aircraft equipped with delicate sensors that may, depending on the winds, be able to determine whether it was a plutonium or uranium weapon.

The following correction was printed in the Observer's For the record column, Sunday November 25 2007 It is 50 years since Tony Ciarfello and his friends used the yard of a depleted uranium weapons factory as their playground in Colonie, a suburb of Albany in upstate New York state.

He knew the West would be intensely interested in whether he tested another plutonium weapon or his first uranium weapon, the product of a new uranium-enrichment capacity that the North has only just unveiled.

Since none of the other elements found in excess in the parents were genotoxic except Uranium we conclude that these results support the belief that the effects in Fallujah follow the deployment of a Uranium-based weapon or weapons of some unknown type.

The United States has already deployed equipment to measure the future test, including sensitive sniffing devices mounted on reconnaissance planes that may be able to answer the question of whether the North has moved to a new generation of homemade uranium weapons.