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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DEFCON (section Operation Paul Bunyan)
(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 and weapons of mass destruction (redirect from Nuclear weapons and France)
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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Soviet atomic bomb project (redirect from Soviet nuclear program)
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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Manhattan Project (redirect from Manhattan Engineer District)
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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Hanford Site (redirect from Hanford Nuclear Reservation)
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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Operation Opera (redirect from Osirak Nuclear Plant)
"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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Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (redirect from Nuclear bombing of Nagasaki)
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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Daresbury Laboratory (redirect from Daresbury Nuclear Physics Laboratory)
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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