Sentence examples for weapon test from inspiring English sources

Left over from the destruction of a satellite by China in 2007 during a weapon test, the debris was predicted to come within 2.7 kilometres of Atlantis.

The Chinese weapon test, on Jan . 11 shattered an aging weather satellite into hundreds of bits, in what space experts describe as the worst satellite fracture of the space age.

A few years later, on 22 September 1979, a US satellite, Vela 6911, detected the double-flash typical of a nuclear weapon test off the coast of South Africa.

For decades after its 1974 nuclear weapon test, India had refused to sign the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and was subjected to a three-decade American moratorium on nuclear trade.

9. (C) Lee cautioned that China would seek to prevent U.S.-DPRK relations from improving too much, adding with a smile that had it not been for its attitude toward the U.S., China would have moved to prevent the October 2006 DPRK nuclear weapon test.

A newer, more dangerous sort of North Korean eccentricity registered around 4.0 on the Richter scale earlier this month — a nuclear weapon test that has had the world's major powers scrambling, right up through last week, to develop a policy script that would account for Mr. Kim's new toy.

To see the weapon test-fired, watch the following video.

From 1948, the United States government spent a decade blasting the Marshall Islands with 67 nuclear weapon tests.

Operation Sandstone was a series of nuclear weapon tests in 1948.

In mid-1946, the ship was a target for nuclear weapon tests during Operation Crossroads.

In mid-1946, the ship was sunk during nuclear weapon tests in Operation Crossroads.