Sentence examples for nuclear weapon using from inspiring English sources

A nuclear weapon using uranium-233 derived from thorium is tested in Nevada.

The other was a more powerful and efficient but more complicated implosion-type nuclear weapon using plutonium-239, a synthetic element created in nuclear reactors at Hanford, Washington.

Two types of bombs were developed: the Mark 1 Little Boy, a gun-type fission weapon using uranium-235, and the Mark 3 Fat Man, an implosion-type nuclear weapon using plutonium.

The goal is we must not see a nuclear weapon used again hopefully on the way to eventually eliminating them.

Even if Hiroshima remains preëminent in our historical memory the first nuclear weapon used in anger Nagasaki may be of greater consequence in the long run, something more than the second attack.

The nation's ability to identify the source of a nuclear weapon used in a terrorist attack is fragile and eroding, according to a report released Thursday by the National Research Council.

Even if Hiroshima remains preëminent in our historical memory — the first nuclear weapon used in anger — Nagasaki may be of greater consequence in the long run, something more than the second attack.

The uranium-based Little Boy device became the first nuclear weapon used in war when it was detonated over the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945.

Research by Enrico Fermi and others, such as J. Robert Oppenheimer starting in 1934 led to its use as a fuel in the nuclear power industry and in Little Boy, the first nuclear weapon used in war.

Meanwhile, the North seems to be proceeding steadily, perhaps as fast as its rusty technology will allow, to build nuclear weapons, using both plutonium and uranium methods.

Compton's report, which was submitted in May 1941, foresaw the prospects of developing radiological weapons, nuclear propulsion for ships, and nuclear weapons using uranium-235 or the recently discovered plutonium.