Sentence examples for nuclear weapons testing from inspiring English sources

Statistical ambiguity also dogs Tularosa, New Mexico, which stands 35 miles from the Trinity nuclear weapons testing site in Nevada.

Malden Island was used (1956 64) by the British for nuclear weapons testing along with nearby Kiritimati Atoll.

Strontium-90 and tritium are radioactive contaminants that have been found in water as a result of nuclear weapons testing.

The two superpowers soon signed the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty of 1963, which banned aboveground nuclear weapons testing.

President Nursultan Nazarbayev appealed for international assistance to help his nation overcome the disastrous legacy of Soviet-era nuclear weapons testing.

Congress passed the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act in 1990, establishing a fund for downwinders with cancer and serious illnesses apparently linked to above-ground nuclear weapons testing.

That calculation was made with the help of data from a network of acoustic sensors set up to monitor compliance with the treaty to ban nuclear weapons testing.

The concentration of tritium in Australian precipitation reached a maximum of 160 Tritium Units (TU) in 1963, during one of the most intense periods of nuclear weapons testing.

The legacy of the post-war US occupation is seen particularly starkly on Bikini and Enewetak, which were both used for nuclear weapons testing between 1946 and 1958.

The year 1964, meanwhile, is discernible in rock layers by its high proportion of radioactive isotopes fallout from nuclear-weapons testing.

TRAAC, for example, is a relic of Cold War nuclear-weapons testing in the years before 1967, when the U.N.'s Outer Space Treaty was signed.