Heterogeneous multiphase flow properties of volcanic rocks and implications for noble gas transport from underground nuclear explosions
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DOI: 10.1002/vzj2.20123
Abstract: Of interest to the Underground Nuclear Explosion Signatures Experiment are patterns and timing of explosion‐generated noble gases that reach the land surface. The impact of potentially simultaneous flow of water and gas on noble gas… read more here.
Keywords: nuclear explosions; noble gas; underground nuclear; gas ... See more keywords
Two-Millimeter Radiation from Stratospheric Nuclear Explosions
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DOI: 10.1007/s10512-018-0340-6
Abstract: The dependence of the spectral power of radiation in the transmission window of air near wavelength 2 mm on the altitude of stratospheric nuclear explosions is investigated. One of the rotational transition lines of nitrogen… read more here.
Keywords: nuclear explosions; stratospheric nuclear; power radiation; nitrogen oxide ... See more keywords
Vertical force scaling in seismic source models of underground nuclear explosions
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DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggz582
Abstract: We have reanalysed observations of body waves and surface waves for 71 well-recorded underground nuclear explosions (UNEs) that were conducted between 1977 and 1989 at the Balapan subregion of the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan.… read more here.
Keywords: nuclear explosions; force scaling; underground nuclear; vertical force ... See more keywords
Laser Simulations of the Destructive Impact of Nuclear Explosions on Hazardous Asteroids
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DOI: 10.1134/s1063776118010132
Abstract: We present the results of preliminary experiments at laser facilities in which the processes of the undeniable destruction of stony asteroids (chondrites) in space by nuclear explosions on the asteroid surface are simulated based on… read more here.
Keywords: nuclear explosions; undeniable destruction; laser; nuclear explosion ... See more keywords
Moment Tensor Inversion for Nuclear Explosions: What Can We Learn from the 6 January and 9 September 2016 Nuclear Tests, North Korea?
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DOI: 10.1785/0220160139
Abstract: ABSTRACT Two nuclear explosions were carried out by the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea in January and September 2016. Epicenters were located close to those of the 2006, 2009, and 2013 previous explosions. We… read more here.
Keywords: nuclear explosions; moment; source; north korea ... See more keywords