Sentence examples for atomic from inspiring English sources

Previous estimates put the amount of heat accumulated by the world's oceans over the past decade equivalent to about 4 Hiroshima atomic bomb detonations per second, on average, but Trenberth's research puts the estimate equivalent to more than 6 detonations per second.

No doubt the problem is compounded by the fact that more than 25 years have elapsed since Britain last started to build an atomic power station and the wider pool of experts has diminished due to retirement.

Published in 1966, it tells the tale of the atomic bomb.

It's partly because they're filled with holes, telephone boxes, grates, craters, broken glass, trees, pedestrians, parked cars, waiting cabs and litter bins; but mostly because they stop and start suddenly, up on high kerbs, so to get off the road and on to them safely I'd have to master some nifty manoeuvre to do with quantum bi-location, atomic wormholes and halting earth time.

The New York Times published a report on Thursday tying the Clintons to a deal between the Russian atomic energy agency and a Canadian company named Uranium One.

The NDA, which is tasked with cleaning up Britain's military and civil atomic waste, last year spent around 65% of Decc's total £3.4bn annual budget.

Sub-atomic 'particles' are best thought of as wave packets.

The United States, he concludes, should not try to roll back India's atomic-weapons capacity, but encourage a nuclear doctrine that reduces risk.Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus and Muslims in India.By Ashutosh Varshney.Yale University Press; 384 pages; $45 and £35INDIA'S 120m-130m Muslims would make a country almost as populous as Pakistan.

The Atomic Energy Act and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act forbid co-operation with countries that do not put all their nuclear industry under international safeguards or that have exploded a nuclear device since 1978.

The Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), an agency with near Olympian powers which ran the nuclear programme, selected a government-owned bombing and gunnery range in Nevada partly because winds would blow "radiological hazards" away from Las Vegas and Los Angeles towards "virtually uninhabitable" land downwind to the west, home to ranches and Mormon communities.

As Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, finalises his report on Iran's nuclear programme, the Iranian foreign minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, has been promoting the "historic idea" of a Middle East free from weapons of mass destruction.