At this particular moment, we actually could end up seeing a nuclear detonation in one of our cities.

The provision stipulates that import of nuclear explosives as well as their manufacture, possession and detonation in Finland are prohibited.

But in 2008, there isn't one single American city that has done effective plans to deal with a nuclear detonation disaster.

(f) Explosives any substance or article that is made, manufactured or used to produce an explosion, detonation or propulsive or pyrotechnic effect, except

Finally, stage passivation measures should include the disarming of the range safety system (that is, detonation charges) and the isolation and discharge of the electrical power system.

In addition, the United States Navy had begun the open burning and detonation of munitions. The United Nations should therefore reaffirm its support for the total decontamination of the land, the return of all land to the people of Vieques, an end to the open burning and detonation of munitions, the participation of international experts in the clean up and the release of Puerto Rican political prisoners from United States jails.

In the course of its 40 years of nuclear testing, including open air and underground detonation of uranium, hydrogen and plutonium bombs, 1.2 million people had been subjected to ionizing radiation.

According to experts consulted by the ICRC, tilt rods are also a method of detonation that cannot be designed in such a way so as to not be detonated by a person.

Kuwait states that its environment was damaged by tarcrete, dry oil lakes, wet oil lakes, oil contaminated piles and oil filled trenches, spills, military fortifications, open burning open detonation areas and wind blown sand.

At 0630 hours an artillery shell fired by Israeli forces in the border strip fell in the garden of the home of Amin Hanna Faris in Sarba, Nabatiyah district. Its detonation caused serious damage to the building.

Finally, and also five years too late, the US Treasury secretary should announce that while the strong dollar doctrine was appropriate (and in America s interest) during the dot com boom, the country needs a weak dollar in the aftermath of the austerity bomb s detonation.

In the five years since the 2000 Review Conference, the world had changed and fears of a deadly nuclear detonation had reawakened, driven by new realities the rise in terrorism, the discovery of clandestine nuclear programmes and the emergence of a nuclear black market.

quot Damage to archaeological sites due to the movement of tanks and the detonation of armour piercing shells and various types of explosives, which have damaged the sites and stone monuments that have survived, almost intact, in the territory for thousands of years. quot

The thing about this is that the experience of the nuclear detonation is first of all, tens of millions of degrees Fahrenheit at the core here, where it goes off, and an extraordinary amount of energy in the form of heat, acute radiation and blast effects.

(f) Explosives the combination of various substances and mixtures that produce an exothermic reaction when ignited any substance or material which, when struck, subjected to friction, heated or subjected to the effect of a small detonation or a chemical reaction, reacts violently, producing gases at high temperature and pressure that impact anything found in their vicinity

The latest detonation also tests whether the world can make addressing North Korea s dangerous aspirations a priority by uniting around a common policy that is more than rhetorical in its condemnation. One thing we know about the North Koreans is that, unless they can use such rhetoric in their own propaganda (they got far more traction out of former US President George W. Bush s infamous axis of evil remark than he ever did), they simply don t care what is said about them.