Sentence examples for radiation weapon from inspiring English sources

I heard a physicist wonder whether a suicide bomber with a pacemaker would constitute an effective radiation weapon.

Many technical features of what the Pentagon called an "enhanced radiation weapon" had been known for years, and scientists had theorized about a nuclear device that would release most of its energy as radiation.

Among the many advances in military technology, perhaps one of the most unwelcome was the "Active Denial System," a super-short-wavelength radiation weapon that caused intense pain in whoever it was aimed at, be it enemy combatants, protestors, or geese.

There's Glendon Scott Crawford, a Klan member, who was convicted last August in federal court for trying to "acquire a radiation weapon for mass destruction" to kill Muslim Americans in New York State.

The then government could have a choice - it might want to develop warheads with smaller yields against small targets, or those that could penetrate hardened bunkers, or enhanced radiation weapons.

While the $143 million nationwide civil support team program for biological, chemical and radiation weapons stumbled in its early days, with criticism over a ballooning budget that might have been better spent on training and equipping local agencies, the New York team has earned praise from some local officials.

At both the Police and Fire Departments, the unions and many of the rank and file say they are inadequately prepared to deal with a new world of threats that includes large explosions, radiation, chemical weapons and biological hazards.

Unlike chemotherapy and radiation, blunderbuss weapons that attack healthy as well as cancerous cells and can cause severe side effects, the new agents are designed to kill cancer cells alone.

While the exposure of French military personnel to nuclear radiation during weapons tests has been well documented, the 1998 report appears to represent the only concrete indication to date that military officials intentionally subjected soldiers to potentially dangerous conditions.

They are also used for menace detection of chemical, biological, nuclear radiation, and for weapon guidance of tactical missiles.

Widespread radiation made the weapon more fearsome and effective.