• Paul Philip Hood Wilson (born October 13, 1971) is the Grainger Professor of Nuclear Engineering in Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics at the...
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  • Paul Wilson (meditation teacher), author of The Little Book of Calm, The Quiet, etc. Paul Wilson (nuclear engineer) (born 1971), Professor of nuclear...
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    he met IAEA nuclear engineer, Munir Ahmad Khan. At a Vienna meeting on December, Khan informed Bhutto about the status of India's nuclear program.[citation...
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    develop and test nuclear weapons, and is one of the five nuclear-weapon states under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. The UK initiated...
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    Leslie Groves (category Nuclear weapons scientists and engineers)
    Jr. (17 August 1896 – 13 July 1970) was a United States Army Corps of Engineers officer who oversaw the construction of the Pentagon and directed the...
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    Nuclear weapons tests are experiments carried out to determine the performance, yield, and effects of nuclear weapons. Testing nuclear weapons offers practical...
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    A nuclear close call is an incident that might have led to at least one unintended nuclear detonation or explosion, but did not. These incidents typically...
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    Israel is widely believed to possess nuclear weapons. Estimates of Israel's stockpile range between 90 and 400 nuclear warheads, and the country is believed...
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    In the United States, nuclear power is provided by 92 commercial reactors with a net capacity of 94.7 gigawatts (GW), with 61 pressurized water reactors...
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    (October 24, 2012). "The Cuban Missile Crisis: A Nuclear Order of Battle October/November 1962" (PDF). Wilson Center. Archived (PDF) from the original on October...
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    Australian Nuclear Energy had considered Portland as a possible location for a future nuclear power station. Glenelg Mayor Gilbert Wilson said that he...
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    France is one of the five "Nuclear Weapons States" under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, but is not known to possess or develop...
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  • impact on the direction of Russian development of nuclear weapons.: 105  Leonid Kvasnikov, a Russian engineer turned KGB officer, was assigned for this special...
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    directed by Major General Leslie Groves of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Nuclear physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was the director of the Los Alamos...
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    and the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. Established in 1943 as part of the Manhattan Project, the site was home to the Hanford Engineer Works and B Reactor...
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    when Tibbets commanded it. Paul Tibbets IV was promoted to brigadier general in 2014, and became Deputy Director for Nuclear Operations at the Global Operations...
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    Igor Kurchatov (category Russian nuclear physicists)
    decided to work on nuclear power generation, working closely with engineer Nikolay Dollezhal, which would established the Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, near...
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    The anti-nuclear movement in the United States consists of more than 80 anti-nuclear groups that oppose nuclear power, nuclear weapons, and/or uranium...
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  • 1904 – Frederick Soddy first proposes a bomb powered by nuclear fission to the Royal Engineers. 1905 – Albert Einstein develops the theory of relativity...
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  • expansion of nuclear power from a lobby including energy minister Brian Wilson and Downing Street staff. She argued there was no need for new nuclear for at...
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  • "to collect enough plutonium [for a nuclear weapon] using Osirak would've taken decades, not years". In 2005, Wilson further commented in The Atlantic:...
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    Nuclear weapons testing is the act of experimentally and deliberately firing one or more nuclear devices in a controlled manner pursuant to a military...
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    Trinity was the code name of the first detonation of a nuclear weapon, conducted by the United States Army at 5:29 a.m. MWT (11:29:21 GMT) on July 16...
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    The anti-nuclear movement is a social movement that opposes various nuclear technologies. Some direct action groups, environmental movements, and professional...
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    1945. Field Marshal Sir Henry Maitland Wilson announced that the British government concurred with the use of nuclear weapons against Japan, which would be...
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    June 1967 as the Daresbury Nuclear Physics Laboratory (DNPL) by the then Prime Minister of United Kingdom, Harold Wilson. It was the second national...
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  • missile and rocket engineer James C. Nance (1927–2019) – aircraft nuclear propulsion engineer Gerhard Neumann (1917–1997) – engineer for General Electric...
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    Wilhelm der Grosse when she was three years old. Her father, a metallurgical engineer, had invented a new kind of blast furnace, and had gained employment with...
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    breakthroughs made during the 1930s, the United Kingdom began the world's first nuclear weapons research project, codenamed Tube Alloys, in 1941, during World...
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    nuclear forces. From a young age, Wilson took an interest in national security and foreign matters. Growing up during World War II encouraged Wilson to...
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