STOP THERMONUCLEAR TESTING!

While slowly retiring multiple warhead land based nuclear missiles, it was building up single warhead missiles.

I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this.

The Russian Federation was developing a new manoeuvrable warhead capable of avoiding missile defences and continued to manufacture single warhead silo launched missiles, with the deployment of a road mobile multiple warhead variant scheduled for 2006.

It's a heavy element produced in thermonuclear explosions of supernovae.

In the core, we have thermonuclear reactions going on, creating chemical elements.

Later in 1998, other missile warhead fragments were sampled in Iraq.

(a) Authentication of warheads and components to establish that an item declared to be a nuclear warhead or a component from a nuclear warhead is consistent with those declarations

So, that was the result. It was Mike, the first thermonuclear bomb, in 1952.

Using a verification system employing a combination of non destructive assay sensors measuring many warhead attributes or templates,7 it has proved possible to discriminate between different types of warhead or component.

Work on dismantlement involved consideration of the processes associated with dismantling any particular warhead, recognizing that many of these could be specific to the warhead, although some were likely to be generic.

This film shows the testing of a new explosive fill on a warhead.

Each stage in a warhead production process has its particular effluents and signatures.

So we're going to have to go all out thermonuclear response, stimulate the total cytokine cascade.

The sequence starts with an image of planet Earth completely wiped out by a thermonuclear war...

Degradation products of VX were found on missile warhead fragments by one national laboratory.

We are looking forward to joining the International Thermonuclear Energy Reactor project involving nuclear fusion, as a full partner.

Over the half century of the existence of the testing site, over 450 atomic and thermonuclear explosions were conducted.

If the warhead remains largely intact on impact then it will represent a real hazard to civilians.

Even if the nuclear warhead broke the asteroid into many small pieces, they could have time to re combine into another large object. In addition, the space vehicle carrying the weapon might malfunction, and the nuclear warhead could land (and perhaps detonate) somewhere on Earth.

Verification evidence can be accumulated from measurements of these materials, supported by measurement of other (potentially warhead related) emissions.

In these launching silos there were 104 intercontinental ballistic missiles, each of which was equipped with a nuclear warhead.

The technologies employed in the production of a nuclear warhead are fundamentally the same as those found in many industrial environments.

If a guided missile crashes prior to arming, then the warhead may or may not experience an energetic reaction on impact.

It had been unable to stop the testing of atomic and thermonuclear weapons in its boundaries, and continued to suffer from its appalling effects.

(a) A site where one or more scientific or industrial activity, required to produce disassemble a nuclear warhead device is carried out plus

In spite of large international research programmes such as Joint European Torus (JET) and the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), the future practical utilization of fusion energy remains uncertain.

In addition, the United States and Russia will seek to incorporate measures relating to the transparency of strategic nuclear warhead inventories and the destruction of strategic nuclear warheads ... .

The three underground nuclear tests carried out at 1545 hours on 11 May were with three different devices a fission device, a low yield sub kiloton device and a thermonuclear device.

(b) Any other location where an unsafeguarded activity is carried out (and where the primary function is to serve the production, storage or disassembly of a nuclear warhead device).

This is not to minimize the important and necessary bilateral negotiations such as the START process under which significant warhead reductions and details for their dismantlement have been agreed to.

And that is, on August 6th, 1945, a B 29 bomber called the Enola Gay flew over Japan and, using a Norden bombsight, dropped a very large thermonuclear device on the city of Hiroshima.

Since there were no distinctive physical differences between chemical and biological warheads and inspectors were still unaware of any biological weaponization, the true nature of those warhead fragments was not investigated further.

The lifetime of a number of warheads had been or would be extended, while funding had been granted for research into a reliable replacement warhead and requested for a Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator.

The third point brings into focus an aspect which was well known but largely left out of the discussion at the time the previous report was written, i.e., the ageing of various parts in a nuclear warhead.

At this stage, Iran still needs at least a year or longer to assemble one or two crude Hiroshima type bombs. The hardest part still lies ahead the miniaturization needed to fit a nuclear device into a warhead.

13. It is common knowledge that if the function of the warhead is dependent upon the presence of tritium, that substance has to be replaced at regular intervals as it decays with a half life of about 12 years.

In that respect, the verification goal would be to provide independent confirmation of, inter alia, the size and disposition of the declared warhead stockpile, the production dismantlement rate of warheads and precursor components, plus inventories and movements of fissile material.

However, since the signature of a spoof cannot be determined in advance, a warhead authentication and dismantlement system would need to have as high a detection probability as possible (while minimizing the occurrence of false alarms) in order to detect spoofing.

Following Iraq's admission in 1995 of the weaponization of Al Hussein warheads with biological warfare agent and their later unilateral destruction in 1991, inspectors sampled warhead fragments and obtained samples found to be positive for the DNA of Bacillus anthracis.

Mr. de Brum (Lolelaplap Trust), speaking out of personal experience, described the traumatic effects of the United States atomic and thermonuclear testing programme in the Marshall Islands, which had sustained the equivalent of 1.6 Hiroshima explosions every day for the 12 years of its duration.

After the collapse of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, a large number of nuclear weapons strategic missiles with multiple warheads, which in the West were given the sinister name Satan , long range bombers and their atomic and thermonuclear charges remained in the territory of the Republic.

In an important new development, President Clinton and President Yeltsin also agreed at Helsinki that the START III negotiations will be the first strategic arms control negotiations to address measures relating to the transparency of strategic nuclear warhead inventories and the destruction of such warheads.

However, the Special Commission demanded in 1997 that the warhead remnants be re counted and that their destruction again be verified. Now, after all these years, we have to prove to the Special Commission anew the material balance of these warheads through the excavation of the remnants.

France is now rushing to construct the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, (ITER), which is supposed to show that nuclear fusion can be used to power nuclear power stations. ITER is often presented as the long term solution to the problem of global warming, because nuclear fusion can provide an infinite and clean source of energy.