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Nu-Clear Sounds
Nu-Clear Sounds is the second studio album by Ash, released on October 5 1998. The tone of the album was a noticeable departure from the sound of 1977, having a much darker edge. Reflecting the mood of the band at the time, who were suffering from burn out as a result of near non-stop touring si..

Nuc
Nucs, or Nucleus Colonies, are small honey bee colonies created from larger colonies. The term refers both to the smaller size box and the colony of honeybees within it. The name is derived from the fact that a nuc hive is centered around a queen - the nucleus of the honey bee colony. Contents 1..

NUC
NUC may refer to: National Universities CommissionNational Union Catalog, a book catalogthe trading symbol for the Nuveen California Quality Income Municipal FundNational Unification CouncilSee also: Nuc ..

NuCalc
NuCalc, also known as Graphing Calculator, is the name of a computer software tool, made by the company Pacific Tech, capable of performing many graphing calculator functions. It can graph inequalities and vector fields, as well as functions in two, three, or four dimensions. It supports several di..

Nuccio Bertone
Nuccio Bertone (Torino, July 12, 1912 – Torino, February 25, 1997) was a famed automobile designer and constructor. He took over Carrozzeria Bertone from his father, Giovanni after World War II, growing the small business to a carbuilding and designing powerhouse. After racing Fiats, O.S.C.A..

Nuccio D'Angelo
Nuccio D'Angelo is a composer and classical guitarist from Italy. Official Homepage [http://www.nucciodangelo.it] External links [Interview] This article is part of the Classical guitar series (Please move this template to the end of the page) [[Portal:Classical guitar|Clas..

Nucella
Nucella is a genus within the gastropod subfamily Ocenebrinae. It includes the Dog Whelk, Nucella lapillus. ..

Nucet
Nucet is also a commune in Dâmboviţa County. Nucet (pronounced in Romanian: /nu.'ʧet/, Hungarian: Diós) is a town in Bihor County, western Transylvania, Romania. Its name means "walnut trees" in Romanian. Localities in Bihor County, Romania Towns: Oradea | Salonta | Marghita | Beiuş ..

Nuchal cord
A Nuchal cord occurs when the umbilical cord becomes wrapped around the fetal neck 360 degrees. A "Type A" Nuchal cord is wrapped around the neck. A "Type B" Nuchal cord is a hitch and is not wrapped. In the Type B case, a caesarian section delivery may be recommended. Doppler ultrasound has been su..

Nuchal ligament
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Nuchal lines
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Nuchal scan
Nuchal Scan is a prenatal screening ultrasound scan to help identify higher risks of a Downs syndrome affected foetus, particularly for older mothers who have higher risks of such pregnancies. The scan is carried out at 11-13 weeks pregnancy and assesses the amount of fluid behind the neck of the fe..

Nuchal translucency
Late in the first trimester, an echolucent area can be identified at the back of the neck of normal fetuses. Normally thin, it has been observed that an unusually thick translucency is sometimes associated with such abnormalities as trisomy 21 and other fetal malformations. Between the 11th and..

Nuchatlitz Provincial Park
Nuchatlitz Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada. ..

Nuckelavee
The Nuckelavee (or Nuckalavee) is a creature from Scottish folklore from the Fuath family. A creature from Celtic mythology, the Nuckelavee is the most horrible of all the Scottish elves. He lives mainly in the sea, but was also held responsible for ruined crops, epidemics, and drought. His br..

Nuckle Brothers
Nuckle Brothers was a third wave ska band that was part of the early 1990's Orange County, California music scene. The band Ashley Hibbs, VocalsJohn Pantle, Vocals,TromboneYoshi Nakmoto, DrumsLong Nguyen, BassPaul Costuros, GuitarCharles Han, Alto SaxophoneT-Bone Willy, TromboneMason St Peter, Teno..

Nuckolls County, Nebraska
Nuckolls County is a county located in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of 2000, the population is 5,057. Its county seat is Nelson6. Contents 1 Geography1.1 Adjacent Counties2 Demographics3 Cities and villages Geography According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a ..

Nucla, Colorado
Nucla is a town in Montrose County, Colorado, United States. The population was 734 at the 2000 census. Its name comes from the town's founders intent that it serve as a "nucleus" for the surrounding farms and mines, although it has since come to be associated with the growth of uranium mining in th..

Nuclear
Nuclear (IPA: /ˈnuklɛɚ, or /'nukulɝ/) means relating to some sort of nucleus. It may mean or refer to: Atomic nucleusRadioactive decayNuclear engineeringNuclear fuelNuclear fuel cycleNuclear navyNuclear reactionNuclear powerNuclear power plantNuclear reactorNuclear warfareNuclear weaponUnited ..

Nuclear-Free Future Award
The Nuclear-Free Future Award is awarded to people committed against nuclear arms and energy. The award was donated after the World Uranium Hearing 1992 in Salzburg, Austria, and is awarded since 1998 in 3 categories: opposition, education and solution. Additionally, there is special award honoring..

Nuclear-free zone
A nuclear-free zone is an area where nuclear weapons and/or nuclear power are banned. The specific ramifications of these depend on the locale in question. Many local authorities worldwide have declared themselves "nuclear-free". However, this label is largely symbolic, since most local authorities..

Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone
A Nuclear-Weapons-Free Zone, or NWFZ is defined [link] by the United Nations as an agreement, generally by internationally recognized treaty, to ban the use, development, or deployment of nuclear weapons in a given area. Additionally, this agreement has mechanisms of verification and con..

Nuclear. Sad. Nuclear.
Nuclear. Sad. Nuclear. is the 2005 release by mathcore group The Number Twelve Looks Like You. It is their first full length album by Eyeball Records. Track listing All of the songs were written and produced by The Number 12 Looks Like You. "The Devil's Dick Disaster"-3:22"Texas Dolly"-3:01"Clar..

Nucleariid
The nucleariids are a small group of amoebae with filose pseudopods, known mostly from soils and freshwater. They are distinguished from the similar vampyrellids mainly by having mitochondria with discoid cristae. Genetic studies place them near the animals and fungi. Nucleariids are usually sm..

Nuclearism
Nuclearism is the political philosophy or ideology that nuclear weapons are the best way of maintaining peace. ..

Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation is a non-profit, non-partisan international organization on the roster in consultative status to the United Nations Economic and Social Council. Founded in 1982, the Foundation is a catalyst in enhancing global security by initiating and supporting efforts to red..

Nuclear aircraft
A nuclear aircraft is an aircraft powered by nuclear energy. Research into them was pursued during the Cold War by the United States and the Soviet Union as they would allow a country to hypothetically keep nuclear bombers in the air for extremely long periods of time, a useful tactic for nuclear de..

Nuclear and radiation accidents
Pathways from airborne radioactive contamination to man Contents 1 Accident types1.1 Loss of coolant accident1.2 Criticality accidents1.3 Decay heat1.4 Transport1.5 Equipment failure1.6 Human error1.7 Lost source1.8 Others2 Civilian nuclear..

Nuclear arms race
US and USSR/Russian nuclear weapons stockpiles, 1945-2005. Nuclear weapons History of nuclear weapons Nuclear warfare Nuclear arms race Weapon design / testing Nuclear explosion Delivery systems Nuclear espionage Proliferation Countries Nuclear weapons states US ·..

Nuclear artillery
A nuclear artillery shell is a limited-yield nuclear weapon delivered by cannon artillery. Shortly after the development of the first atomic bombs the USA and the USSR began investigations into devices with limited yield that could be used in sub-strategic situations, even tactically. This develop..

Nuclear Assault
Nuclear Assault is a Thrash Metal band formed in 1985. As a bass player, Dan Lilker left Anthrax after performing on their album Fistful of Metal. He left Anthrax in search of more aggressive music to play and founded Nuclear Assault with vocalist and guitarist John Connelly, who was also a member o..

Nuclear astrophysics
Nuclear astrophysics is the branch of nuclear physics that deals with explaining the formation, via nuclear reactions, of all the naturally occurring chemical elements in the universe. These nucleosynthesis processes occurred during the big bang (see Big Bang nucleosynthesis) and continue to take p..

Nuclear bag fiber
Brief Outline: 1-3 nuclear bag fibres lie in the centre of each intrafusal muscle fibre of a muscle spindle. Each has a large number of nuclei concentrated in bags and they cause excitation of both the primary and secondary nerve fibres. See also nuclear chain fiber. ..

Nuclear Bel languages
Nuclear Bel Languages Spoken in: Northern New Guinea Geneticclassification: Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central Eastern Malayo-Polynesian Eastern Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Oceanic &nbs..

Nuclear Bestiality
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Nuclear blackmail
Nuclear blackmail is a term used in nuclear strategy to refer to the threat of use of nuclear weapons to force an adversary to perform some action, hence a type of extortion. It is generally regarded as ineffective against a rational opponent who has or is an ally of someone who has assured destr..

Nuclear Blast
For information related to weapons, see nuclear explosion. Nuclear Blast is an independent record label and mail order record distributor with subsidiaries in Germany, the United States and Brazil. Originally releasing hardcore punk records, the label moved on to releasing albums by melodic death m..

Nuclear bunker buster
Subsidence craters left over after underground nuclear (test) explosions Bunker-busting nuclear weapons are a type of nuclear weapon designed to penetrate into soil, rock, or concrete to deliver a nuclear warhead to a target. These weapons would be used to destroy hardened, underground milita..

Nuclear chain fiber
redirect [[Template:Context]]There are 3-9 nuclear chain fibers per muscle spindle that are half the size of the nuclear bag fibers. Their nuclei are aligned in a chain and they excite the secondary nerve. They are static while the nuclear bag fibers are dynamic in comparison. ..

Nuclear chain reaction
Contents 1 The probability of a chain reaction2 Predetonation3 History4 See also5 External links A nuclear chain reaction occurs when on average more than one nuclear reaction is caused by another nuclear reaction, thus leading to an exponential increase in the num..

Nuclear chemistry
Nuclear chemistry is a subfield of chemistry dealing with radioactivity, nuclear processes and nuclear properties. It may be divided into the following four categories: Radiochemistry deals with the use of radioactivity to study ordinary chemical reactionsThe application of techniques from chemistr..

Nuclear Command Authority
The Nuclear Command Authority (NCA) is the name given to the respective agencies of the Indian and Pakistani governments responsible for deciding on the deployment of each country's nuclear weapons stockpile. The Pakistani agency was created in February 2000, and its Indian counterpart was launched..

Nuclear Command Authority (India)
The Nuclear Command Authority (NCA) of India is the nodal agency for all command, control and operational decisions regarding India's nuclear weapon stockpile. On January 4, 2003, the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) constituted the Political Council and the Executive Council of the NCA. The Ex..

Nuclear cross section
Nuclear cross section is the probability that a neutron-nuclear reaction will occur. Nuclear reaction rate is R = (σ)(I)(NA) where: R = number of reactions/(square centimeter-second)σ is a proportionality constant in units of centimeters squared. σ is also known as the microscopic ..

Nuclear data
Nuclear data groups all experimental data relevant for nuclear physics and nuclear applications. It includes a large and non-exhaustic number of physical quantities, like scattering and reaction cross sections (which can also be measured as functions of e.g. the energy and the angle), nuclear struc..

Nuclear Death
--> Nuclear Death were a death metal/thrash metal band formed in 1986 in Phoenix, Arizona. They were one of the few bands in the genre with a female vocalist, Lori Bravo. Their style was compared to bands like Impetigo, Blasphemy, Autopsy, Deceased and Repulsion. Contents 1 Biography2 ..

Nuclear decommissioning
The decommissioning of nuclear facilities is sometimes referred to as nuclear decommissioning, to mark the difference between 'conventional' decommissioning and dismantling projects. In fact, the main difference to the dismantling of a 'conventional' facility is the possible presence of radioactive ..

Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) is a non-departmental public body of the United Kingdom formed by the Energy Act 2004. It came into existence on 1 April 2005. Its purpose is to oversee and manage the decommissioning and clean-up of the UK’s civil nuclear legacy. The NDA took ownership ..

Nuclear density
Nuclear density is the density of the nucleus of an atom, averaging about [10^\mathrm/\mathrm^]. The descriptive term nuclear density is also applied to situations where very high densities occur, such as within neutron stars. The components of an atom and of an atomic nucleus have varyin..

Nuclear Depth Bomb
A Nuclear Depth Bomb (NDB) is the nuclear equivalent of the conventional depth charge and is used in Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) for attacking submerged submarines. Due to the use of a nuclear warhead of much greater explosive power than that of the conventional depth charge, the Nuclear Depth Bom..

Nuclear deterrent
Nuclear weapons History of nuclear weapons Nuclear warfare Nuclear arms race Weapon design / testing Nuclear explosion Delivery systems Nuclear espionage Proliferation Countries Nuclear weapons states US · Russia · UK · France China · India · Pakistan Israel �..

Nuclear Dimorphism
Nuclear Dimorphism is when the nuclear apparatus (in a cell) is composed of two structurally and functionally differentiated types of nuclei (as is typical of Ciliates). External links [Nuclear Dimorphism] "The micronucleus (MIC) is the germline, i.e. the store of genetic information for ..

Nuclear dimorphism
Nuclear dimorphism is a term referred to the special characteristic of having two different kind of nucleus in a cell. This feature is only observed in protozoa ciliates. Ciliates contain two nucleus type, a macronucleus that is basically used to control metabolism, and a micronucleus which have the..

Nuclear disarmament
Nuclear disarmament is the proposed undeployment and dismantling of nuclear weapons, particularly those of the United States and the Soviet Union (later Russia) targeted on each other. Proponents of nuclear disarmament said that it would lessen the probability of nuclear war occurring, especially a..

Nuclear Disarmament Party
The Nuclear Disarmament Party (NDP) is a political party in Australia. The party was formed in 1984 and enjoyed considerable initial success. The NDP was founded by a Canberra doctor and peace activist, Dr Michael Denborough, in response to the world political situation in the early 1980s, particul..

Nuclear DNA
Nuclear DNA is DNA contained within a nucleus of eukaryotic organisms. In most cases it encodes more of the genome than the mitochondrial DNA and is passed sexually rather than matrilineally. Nuclear DNA is the most common DNA used in forensic examinations. See also Chromatin Nucleic acids..

Nuclear Doctrine of Pakistan
Military of Pakistan Pakistan Air Force Pakistan Coast Guard Personnel Military history Military history of Pakistan Related topics Weapons of mass destruction Nishan-E-Haider Special Service Group Inter-Services Intelligence Nuclear Doctrine of Pakistan ..

Nuclear Donkey
Two previous host of The Zone hosts, Pat and Jenny, formed a band called Nuclear Donkey and have always had one song in each release of the YTV's Big Fun Party Mix CD, and the YTV's Big Fun Party Present and an accompanying music video which gets shown on YTV's Hit List at least once, and sometimes ..

Nuclear electric rocket
In a nuclear electric rocket, nuclear thermal energy is changed into electrical energy that is used to power one of the electrical propulsion technologies. So technically the powerplant is nuclear, not the propulsion system, but the terminology is standard. A number of heat-to-electricity schemes ..

Nuclear Emergency Support Team
The Nuclear Emergency Support Team (NEST) (formerly known as the Nuclear Emergency Search Team) is a team of scientists, technicians, and engineers operating under the United States Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). Their task is to be "prepared to respond imme..

Nuclear energy
Nuclear energy is energy released from the atomic nucleus. It follows the conversion of its mass to energy consistent with Albert Einstein's formula E=mc² in which E = Energy, m = Mass and c = the Constant Speed of Light. However, the mass-energy equivalence does not explain how the reaction occ..

Nuclear Energy Agency
The Nuclear Energy Agency is an intergovernmental multinational agency that is organized under the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Originally formed on 1 February 1958 with the name European Nuclear Energy Agency (ENEA) (the United States participated as an Associate Member)..

Nuclear Energy Board
The corporate logo The Nuclear Energy BoardThe Nuclear Energy Board was officially titled as "An Bord Fuinnimh Núicléigh", this been from the Irish language, however invariably the English language title—though unofficial—was used in practice. (NEB) was established in Ireland on November..

Nuclear energy policy
Nuclear energy policy is a policy concerning all aspects of nuclear energy, such as mining, enrichment and storage of burned rods, electricity generation by nuclear reactors, and nuclear fuel reprocessing. National energy policy means the regulation of energy use and standards relating to the nuc..

Nuclear engineering
Nuclear engineering is the practical application of the atomic nucleus gleaned from principles of nuclear physics and the interaction between radiation and matter. This field of engineering includes the design, analysis, development, testing, operation and maintenance of nuclear fission systems and ..

Nuclear envelope
The nuclear envelope (synonyms: karyotheca, nuclear membrane, nucleolemma, perinuclear envelope) refers to the double membrane of the nucleus that encloses genetic material in eukaryotic cells. It separates the contents of the nucleus (DNA in particular) from the cytosol. The space between the two..

Nuclear espionage
Nuclear weapons History of nuclear weapons Nuclear warfare Nuclear arms race Weapon design / testing Nuclear explosion Delivery systems Nuclear espionage Proliferation Countries Nuclear weapons states US · Russia · UK · France China · India · Pakistan Israel �..

Nuclear Explosions (Prohibition and Inspections) Act 1998
Acts of Parliament of predecessorstates to the United Kingdom Acts of Parliament of the Kingdom of England to 1600Acts of Parliament of the Kingdom of England to 1706Acts of Parliament of the Kingdom of ScotlandActs of Parliament of the Kingdom of Ireland Acts of Parliament of the United Kingdom ..

Nuclear Explosions for the National Economy
Nuclear Explosions for the National Economy was a Soviet program to investigate peaceful nuclear explosions (PNEs). It was analogous to the US program Operation Plowshare. One of the better-known tests was Chagan of January 15, 1965. Radioactivity from the Chagan test was detected over Japan b..

Nuclear explosive
A nuclear explosive is an explosive device that derives its energy from nuclear reactions. Almost all nuclear explosive devices that have been designed and produced, and the two that have actually been used, are nuclear weapons intended for warfare; see that article for more detail. Other, non-warf..

Nuclear fallout
Fallout is the residual radiation hazard from a nuclear explosion and is named from the fact that it "falls out" of the atmosphere into which it is spread during the explosion. It commonly refers to the radioactive dust created when a nuclear weapon explodes. This radioactive dust, consisting of ..

Nuclear family
The term nuclear family was developed in the western world to distinguish the family group consisting of parents and their children, usually a father, mother, and children, from what is known as an extended family. According to Merriam-Webster the term dates back to 1947 and is therefore relatively ..

Nuclear fission
Nuclear fission - also known as atomic fission - is a process in nuclear physics in which the nucleus of an atom splits into two or more smaller nuclei as fission products, and usually some by-product particles. Hence, fission is a form of elemental transmutation. The by-products include free ne..

Nuclear Football
The "Nuclear Football," otherwise known as the President's Emergency Satchel, is a specially-outfitted, black-colored briefcase used by the President of the United States to authorize the use of nuclear weapons. Adopted to permit the President to make a nuclear attack order while away from fixed co..

Nuclear force
This article is about the force sometimes called the residual strong force. For the "strong nuclear force" see strong interaction; for the "weak nuclear force", see weak interaction. The nuclear force (or nucleon-nucleon interaction or residual strong force) is the force between two or more nucleon..

Nuclear freeze
The nuclear freeze was a proposed agreement between the world's nuclear powers, primarily the United States and the then-Soviet Union, to freeze all production of new nuclear arms and to leave levels of nuclear armament where they currently were. However, the difference in the systems between the t..

Nuclear Free World Policy
The Nuclear Free World Policy is a commitment by the governments of Brazil, Egypt, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, Slovenia, South Africa, and Sweden to shape foreign policy around the goal of "the elimination of nuclear weapons and assurance that they will never be produced again." Of particular conc..

Nuclear fuel
Nuclear fuel is any material that can be consumed to derive nuclear energy, by analogy to chemical fuel that is burned to derive energy. By far the most common type of nuclear fuel is heavy fissile elements that can be made to undergo nuclear fission chain reactions in a nuclear fission reactor; n..

Nuclear fuel and reactor accidents
This page is devoted to a discussion of how uranium dioxide nuclear fuel behaves during both normal nuclear reactor operation and under reactor accident conditions such as overheating. Contents 1 Swelling1.1 Cladding1.2 Fuel2 Fission gas release3 Corrosion and other c..

Nuclear fuel bank
A nuclear fuel bank is a proposed approach to provide countries access to enriched nuclear fuel, without the need for them to have access to enrichment technology. The basic concept is that countries, who have enrichment technology, would donate an amount of enriched fuel to a "bank". Countries who ..

Nuclear fuel cycle
The nuclear fuel cycle, also called nuclear fuel chain, is the progression of nuclear fuel through a series of differing stages. It consists of steps in the front end, which are the preparation of uranium for use as fuel for reactor operation, and steps in the back end, which are necessary to safe..

Nuclear Furniture
Nuclear Furniture was the final album release by the American rock band Jefferson Starship before it became Starship. It was released in 1984 and spawned the Top 40 single "No Way Out". Track Listing "Layin' It On The Line" (4:09)"No Way Out" (4:22)"Sorry Me, Sorry You" (4:07)"Live And Let Live" (..

Nuclear fusion
For the generation of electrical power by fusion, see fusion power The deuterium-tritium (D-T) fusion reaction is considered the most promising for producing fusion power. In physics, nuclear fusion is the process by which multiple nuclei join together to form a heavier nucleus. It is accompa..

Nuclear fussion
For the nuclear reaction involving heavy elements (such as Uranium), see Nuclear fission. Note that it is spelt with an I. For the nuclear reaction involving light elements (such as Hydrogen), see Nuclear fusion. Note that it is spelt with only ONE S. ..

Nuclear gene
Nuclear gene is a gene located in the cell nucleus of an eukaryote. The term is used to distinguish nuclear genes from the genes in the mitochondrion, or in case of plants, also the chloroplast. The term "gene" most often refers to nuclear genes. Nuclear genes are the "original" genes of the eukary..

Nuclear halo
In nuclear physics, an atomic nucleus is said to be a halo if its radius is appreciably larger than that predicted by the liquid drop model, wherein the nucleus is assumed to be a sphere of constant density. For a nucleus of mass number A, the radius r is: [r = r_\circ A^}] Where [..

Nuclear hardness
In telecommunication, the term nuclear hardness has the following meanings: An expression of the extent to which the performance of a system, facility, or device is expected to degrade in a given nuclear environment.The physical attributes of a system or electronic component that will allow surviv..

Nuclear hazard
Nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) hazards are becoming a growing concern. Dirty bombs One possible terrorist scenario involves a "dirty bomb" in which a terrorist uses nuclear materials together with a conventional explosive to disperse the nuclear hazard. Mitigation of nuclear hazards Nucle..

Nuclear Holocaust
Nuclear Holocaust is the concept of the erradication of the human race through the means of Nuclear warfare. The term "Nuclear Holocaust" compares the possible all-out nuclear war to the Holocaust, an event in which at least six million of Europe's Jewish population was systematically exterminated...

Nuclear isomer
A nuclear isomer is a metastable state of an atom caused by the excitation of one or more protons and/or neutrons in its nucleus. Contents 1 Explanation2 Nearly-stable isomers3 Applications4 Decay processes5 See also6 References7 External links Explanation An ..

Nuclear lamina
The nuclear lamina is a dense, ~ 30 to 100 nanometers thick, fibrillar network composed of intermediate filaments made of lamin that lines the inner surface of the nuclear envelope. At the onset of mitosis, a certain cyclin-dependent kinase complex (Cdk1 and cyclin B in mammals) phosphorylates the ..

Nuclear Liabilities Fund
The Nuclear Liabilities Fund was created by the British Government in November 2004 to assume the long-term financial liabilities from spent nuclear fuels. The Fund is a mixture of state-funding (estimated between £175m and £200m) and private contributions (British Energy is required under its res..

Nuclear lightbulb
A nuclear lightbulb is a specific type of gas core reactor rocket that separates the nuclear fuel from the coolant/propellant with a quartz wall. It is operated at such high temperature (approx. 25,000°C ) that the vast majority of the electromagnetic emissions are in the hard ultraviolet range. F..

Nuclear localization signal
A nuclear localizing signal (NLS) is an amino acid sequence which acts like a 'tag' on the exposed surface of a protein. This sequence is used to confine the protein to the cell nucleus through the Nuclear Pore Complex and to direct a newly synthesized protein into the nucleus via its recognition by..

Nuclear magnetic moment
The nuclear magnetic moment is the magnetic moment of an atomic nucleus and arises from the spin of the protons and neutrons. It is mainly a magnetic dipole moment; the quadrupole moment does cause some small shifts in the hyperfine structure as well. The nuclear magnetic moment varies from isotop..

Nuclear magnetic resonance
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's high magnetic field (800 MHz, 18.8 Tesla) NMR spectrometer being loaded with a sample. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is a physical phenomenon based upon the magnetic property of an atom's nucleus. All nuclei that contain odd numbers of nucleons and s..

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) quantum computing
NMR quantum computing uses the spin states of molecules as qubits. NMR differs from other implementations of quantum computers in that it uses an ensemble of systems, in this case molecules. The ensemble is initialized to be the thermal equilibrium state (see quantum statistical mechanics). In ma..

Nuclear magneton
The nuclear magneton (symbol [\mu_p]), is a physical constant of magnetic moment, defined by: [\mu_p = ] where: [e] is the elementary charge, [\hbar] is the reduced Planck's constant, [m_p] is the proton rest mass In the SI system of units its valu..

Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian languages
The Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian languages are a branch of the Austronesian family that are thought to have dispersed from a possible homeland in Sulawesi. Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian is considered to have two branches: The Sunda-Sulawesi languages or Inner Hesperonesian (Inner Western Malayo-Polyne..

Nuclear Man
Nuclear Man (portrayed by Mark Pillow) is the supervillain from the film [[Superman IV: The Quest For Peace]]. He was created by Lex Luthor with the DNA of Superman. Despite his name, he is actually solar powered. Not to be confused with Firestorm whose nickname was "The Nuclear Man" prior to the..

Nuclear Management Company
Nuclear Management Company is a contract/operations firm that currently oversees four nuclear power plants. NMC provides operational collaborations between plants. NMC does not own the plants, nor the energy produced from them. NMC's corporate headquarters are in Hudson, Wisconsin. History NM..

Nuclear marine propulsion
Nuclear marine propulsion is propulsion of a Merchant ship powered by a nuclear reactor. Naval Nuclear Propulsion is propulsion that specifically refers to naval warships (see Nuclear navy). Contents 1 Power plants2 History3 Civil vessels4 References5 External links Powe..

Nuclear material
Nuclear material consists of materials used in nuclear systems, such as nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons. Most commonly this refers to special nuclear material (SNM) as defined in the United States Atomic Energy Act. Special nuclear materials are plutonium, uranium-233 and enriched uranium-235..

Nuclear matrix
In biology, the nuclear matrix is the network of fibers found throughout the inside of a cell nucleus. The exact function of this matrix is still disputed.See [link]. There is evidence that the nuclear matrix is involved in regulation of gene expression in Arabidopsis thaliana. See, for ..

Nuclear medicine
Nuclear medicine is a branch of medicine and medical imaging that uses unsealed radioactive substances in diagnosis and therapy. These substances consist of radionuclides, or pharmaceuticals that have been labeled with radionuclides (radiopharmaceuticals). In diagnosis, radioactive substances are ad..

Nuclear meltdown
"Meltdown" redirects here. For , see . A nuclear meltdown occurs when the core of a nuclear reactor ceases to be properly controlled and cooled due to failure of control or safety systems, and fuel assemblies (containing the uranium or plutonium reactor fuel and highly radioactive fission products)..

Nuclear microscopy
Nuclear microscopy uses a device called a microprobe. A microprobe is a device that uses electromagnetic or electrostatic lenses to focus an ion beam. In this way a microprobe is very similar to a scanning electron microscope. Some difference are that the nuclear microprobes beam is composed of u..

Nuclear Model
A nuclear model is any model that attempts to describe the atomic nucleus. See Atom. ..

Nuclear navy
The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a [WikiProject Countering systemic biasworldwide view].Please improve the article or discuss the issue on the [talk page]. Nuclear navy, or nuclear powered navy consists of ships powered by relatively sma..

Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
14 kiloton atomic explosion, from a 1951 US nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site. (Operation Buster-Jangle, Charlie) Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Opened for signature July 1, 1968 in New York Entered into force March 5, 1970 Conditions for entry into force Ratification by the United Ki..

Nuclear notation
Nuclear Notation is a common notation used is physics to indicate the atomic number and mass number of an isotope. Nuclear Notation is formed by writing an elemental symbol preceded by a subscript indicating its atomic number and a superscript indicating its mass number. For example, the common Ca..

Nuclear operator
In mathematics, a nuclear operator is roughly a compact operator for which a trace may be defined, such that the trace is finite and independent of the choice of basis (at least on well behaved spaces; there are some spaces on which nuclear operators do not have a trace). Nuclear operators are ess..

Nuclear option (filibuster)
This article is about U.S. legislative procedure. For information about the use of nuclear weapons, see Nuclear warfare. The nuclear option, sometimes called the "constitutional option," or the "Byrd" option, is a method by which changes can be made to the standard parliamentary procedure of the Un..

Nuclear Overhauser effect
In chemistry, the transfer of spin polarization from one spin population to another is generally called Overhauser Effect, after American physicist Albert Overhauser who hypothesized it in the early 1950s. The phenomenon was demonstrated by C. P. Slichter and T. R.Carver in 1953. Overhauser effect o..

Nuclear Papuan Tip languages
Nuclear Papuan Tip Languages Spoken in: Eastern New Guinea Geneticclassification: Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central Eastern Malayo-Polynesian Eastern Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Oceanic &nbs..

Nuclear photonic rocket
In a nuclear photonic rocket, a nuclear reactor would generate such high temperatures that the blackbody light from the reactor would provide thrust. Think of a nuclear lightbulb, with a reflector. The disadvantage is that it takes a lot of power and fuel mass to generate a small amount of thrust th..

Nuclear physics
Nuclear physics is the branch of physics concerned with the nucleus of the atom. It has three main aspects: probing the fundamental particles (protons and neutrons) and their interactions, classifying and interpreting the properties of nuclei, and providing technological advances. Nuclei do not le..

Nuclear poison
For information on radioactive toxins see Radiation poisoning A nuclear poison is a substance with a large neutron absorption cross-section in applications, such as nuclear reactors, when absorbing neutrons is an undesirable effect. However in some reactors, neutron-absorbing materials also called ..

Nuclear Polynesian languages
Nuclear Polynesian Languages Spoken in: Central Polynesia Geneticclassification: Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central Eastern Malayo-Polynesian Eastern Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Central-Eastern O..

Nuclear pore
Nuclear pore. Top and side view. 1. Nuclear envelope. 2. Outer ring. 3. Spokes. 4. Plug. (Drawing is based on electron microscopy images) Nuclear pores are large protein complexes that cross the nuclear envelope, which is the double membrane surrounding the eukaryotic cell nucleus. There are a..

Nuclear posture review
The Nuclear Posture Review of 2002 was the second review of US Nuclear Forces undertaken by the United States Department of Defense. The first took place in 1994. The final report is National Security Classified and submitted to the Congress of the United States. See also Single Integrated Operatio..

Nuclear power
A nuclear power station. Non-radioactive water vapor rises from the hyperboloid shaped cooling towers. The nuclear reactors are inside the cylindrical containment buildings. Nuclear power is the controlled use of nuclear reactions to release energy for work including propulsion, heat, and th..

Nuclear power/proposed new intro
Note: this is a proposed new introduction to the article Nuclear power. It was removed because it still needs work, but it may in future replace the present text. --[[User:Robert Merkel|Robert Merkel]] 08:48, 28 January 2006 (UTC) Nuclear power is the use of nuclear reactions to do useful work, u..

Nuclear powered icebreaker
Nuclear icebreaker Yamal on its way to the North Pole in August 2001 The nuclear powered icebreaker is a purpose-built ship for use in waters continuously covered with ice. The nuclear powered icebreakers were constructed for the purpose of increasing the shipping along the northern coast of ..

Nuclear Power 2010 Program
The "Nuclear Power 2010 Program" was unveiled by the U.S. Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham on February 14, 2002 as one means towards addressing the expected need for new power plants. The program is a joint government/industry cost-shared effort to identify sites for new nuclear power plants, de..

Nuclear power by country
Nuclear power is a method for generating energy by harnessing the radioactivity of atoms. Nuclear fission occurs when any fissile material, such as uranium-235, an isotope of uranium, is concentrated. This causes a nuclear chain reaction, which releases large amounts of heat, boiling water and pro..

Nuclear power controversy
After a period of decline following the 1979 Three Mile Island accident and the 1986 incident at Chernobyl, there is a recently renewed interest in nuclear energy because it could partially address both dwindling oil reserves and global warming with far fewer emissions of greenhouse gases than ..

Nuclear Power Corporation of India
The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. (NPCI) is a Public Sector Undertaking involved in India's nuclear power programme. NPCI has 14 reactors under operation and 8 under construction. External link [NPCIL webpage] Currently NPCIL has pressurised heavy water reators. ..

Nuclear Power Demonstrator
The Nuclear Power Demonstrator (or NPD) was the prototype CANDU reactor. It consisted of a single 22MWe PHWR unit, located in Rolphton, Ontario, not far from the Chalk River Laboratories. It has since been shut down and is no longer in operable condition. NPD began operation in 1962 and ran until..

Nuclear power in Bulgaria
In Bulgaria, the Kozloduy NPP operates six pressurized water reactors with a total output of 3760 MW-electricity at the present. Four are old VVER-440 V230 reactors, are considered dangerous, and under a 1993 agreement between the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the Bulga..

Nuclear power in Canada
Despite its small population Canada has an active and independent nuclear power and research sector. A leading exporter of uranium, Canada also exports nuclear technology within the terms of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty, which it is a signatory to. Contents 1 Power Generation2 M..

Nuclear power in Finland
As of 2006, Finland's nuclear power program has four nuclear reactors. The first operating since 1977, they are providing now 27% of Finland's electricity. In 2002, the cabinet's decision to allow the construction of a fifth nuclear power plant was accepted in the parliament. Economic, energy secu..

Nuclear power in France
In France, as of 2002, EDF - the country's main electricity generation and distribution company - produces about 78% of its electricity with 58 nuclear power plants (making it the leading world country in its usage of nuclear power). Public opinion Critics have been pointing out the disproportiona..

Nuclear power in Japan
In Japan, as of 2005, 55 nuclear reactors generate 30% of its electricity. 80% of its energy is being imported in the form of fossil fuels. Since 1973 nuclear energy has been a national strategic priority. See also Nuclear powerList of nuclear reactorsPolitics of JapanNuclear energy policy External..

Nuclear power in Russia
Russia has made plans to increase the number of reactors in operation from twenty nine to fifty nine, financed with the help of loans from the European Union. Old reactors will be maintained and upgraded, including RBMK units similar to the reactor in Chernobyl. In August 2005, Russia and Finland ag..

Nuclear power in Sweden
Until the 1960s Sweden's energy policy focused on hydroelectricity, which was supplemented by nuclear power since 1965. Contents 1 The advisory referendum on nuclear power (1980)2 \"Fallout\" from the Chernobyl accident (1986)3 Current opinion4 See also5 References6&nbs..

Nuclear power in the United Kingdom
United Kingdomenergy related articles Government energy policy Energy use and conservation Nuclear power Wind power Energy efficiency in housing Climate Change Programme As of 2006, the United Kingdom has 23 nuclear reactors generating one-fifth of its electricity (19.26% in 2004). The U..

Nuclear power phase-out
A nuclear power phase-out is the discontinuation of usage of nuclear power for energy production. It includes the closing down of nuclear power plants. It was introduced in Sweden (1980), in Italy (1987), in Belgium (1999), and in Germany (2000) and has been discussed in several other European co..

Nuclear power plant
A nuclear power station. The nuclear reactor is contained inside the cylindrical containment buildings to the right - left is a cooling tower venting water vapor from the Non-Radioactive side of the plant. A nuclear power plant (NPP) is a thermal power station in which the heat source is one o..

Nuclear Power Plant Landshut Isar I + Isar II
Next to the Isar river, two base load nuclear power plants have been built, called Isar I and Isar II. They are fourteen kilometres away from Landshut, between Essenbach and Niederaichbach. Contents 1 Safety1.1 Passive Safety Features1.2 Active Safety Features2 The Future2...

Nuclear program of Iran
This article is about Iran's nuclear power program. For information about western nations allegation of Iran developing nuclear weapons, see Iran and weapons of mass destruction Originally started under the Shah of Iran in the 1950s, with the help of the United States, the Iranian nuclear program..

Nuclear proliferation
Other states capable of developing nuclear weapons within several years if the decision to do so were made}} Nuclear weapons History of nuclear weapons Nuclear warfare Nuclear arms race Weapon design / testing Nuclear explosion Delivery systems Nuclear espionage Prolifer..

Nuclear propulsion
Nuclear propulsion includes a wide variety of propulsion methods that use some form of nuclear reaction as their primary power source. Many military submarines and large surface ships use nuclear reactors as their power plants (see nuclear marine propulsion for civil use and nuclear navy for naval u..

Nuclear pulse propulsion
An artist's conception of the Orion "basic" spacecraft, powered by nuclear pulse propulsion. Nuclear pulse propulsion (or External Pulsed Plasma Propulsion, as it is termed in one recent NASA document) is a proposed method of spacecraft propulsion that uses nuclear explosions for thrust. It wa..

Nuclear pumped laser
A nuclear pumped laser is a laser pumped with the energy of fission fragments. The lasing medium is enclosed in a tube lined with uranium-235 and subjected to high neutron flux in a nuclear reactor core. The fission fragments of the uranium create excited plasma with inverse population of energy lev..

Nuclear Pursuits
Nuclear Pursuits is a 1994 biography of Wilfrid Lewis by Ruth Fawcett. ..

Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance
Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance or NQR is a technique related to nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) which is used to detect atoms whose nuclei have a nuclear quadrupole moment, such as 14N, 35Cl and 63Cu. Since unlike NMR, NQR is done in an environment without a static (or DC) magnetic field, it is somet..

Nuclear Rabbit
Nuclear Rabbit is a California band, started in Novato. Considered metal music, though many say it is hard to classify. Known for its strange sound and lyrics, an 11-string bass, and the general feel of the music, Nuclear Rabbit has a large fan base. Nuclear Rabbit was started in 1989 by bassist J..

Nuclear reaction
In nuclear physics, a nuclear reaction is a process in which two nuclei or nuclear particles collide, to produce different products than the initial products. In principle a reaction can involve more than two particles colliding, but such an event is exceptionally rare. If the particles collide and..

Nuclear reaction analysis
Nuclear reaction analysis (NRA) is a nuclear method in materials science to obtain concentration vs. depth distributions for certain target chemical elements in a solid thin film. If irradiated with select projectile nuclei at kinetic energies Ekin these target elements can undergo a nuclear react..

Nuclear reactor
Core of a small nuclear reactor used for research. A nuclear power station. The nuclear reactors are inside the two cylindrical containment buildings in the foreground—behind are the cooling towers (venting water vapor). A nuclear reactor is a device in which nuclear chain reaction..

Nuclear reactor core
A nuclear reactor core is that portion of a nuclear reactor containing the fuel components where the nuclear reactions take place. Description Inside the core of a typical pressurized water reactor are pencil-thin nuclear fuel rods, each about 12 feet long, which are grouped by the hundreds in bund..

Nuclear Reactor Operator Badge
The Nuclear Reactor Operator Badge is a decoration of the United States Army which was issued between the years of 1965 and 1990. In 1991, the decoration was declared obsolete by Army Regulation 672-5-1, however uniform regulations permit the continued wearing of the Nuclear Reactor Operator Badg..

Nuclear reactor physics
Contents 1 Criticality1.1 Starter sources2 Subcritical multiplication3 Neutron moderators3.1 Moderators and reactor design4 Delayed neutrons and controllability5 Reactor poisons5.1 Long-lived poisons and fuel reprocessing5.2 Short-lived poisons and co..

Nuclear Regulatory Commission
NRC headquarters in Rockville, MD. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (or NRC) is a United States government agency that was established by the Energy Reorganization Act in 1974, and was first opened January 19, 1975. The NRC took over the role of oversight of nuclear energy matters and nuclear sa..

Nuclear reprocessing
Contents 1 History2 Old Methods which are no longer used2.1 Bismuth phosphate2.2 Hexone or Redox2.3 Butex, β,β'-dibutyoxydiethyl ether3 The current main method which is in use4 Possible methods for future use4.1 Aqueous methods4.1.1 UREX4.1.2 T..

Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group
Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group (NRG) is a Dutch institute that performs nuclear research for the government and private companies. It is the most important producer of radionuclides in Europe and maintains and operates the Petten nuclear reactor. The institute also offers services to medica..

Nuclear Risk Reduction Center
The Nuclear Risk Reduction Center is part of the United States Department of State. It has counterpart in Moscow in the Russian Ministry of Defense. The NRRC was created in 1987 by an agreement between the US Secretary of State and the Soviet Foreign Minister. Its purpose was to create an addition..

Nuclear run-on
A nuclear run-on assay is conducted to identify the genes that are being transcribed at a certain point in time. Cell nuclei are isolated rapidly, and incubated with labelled nucleotides. Reference http://www.mblab.gla.ac.uk/~julian/dict2.cgi?4568 From ISCID Encyclopedia of Science and Philoso..

Nuclear safety
Nuclear safety covers the actions taken to prevent nuclear and radiation accidents or to limit their consequences. Many nations utilizing nuclear power have special institutions overseeing and regulating nuclear safety. Internationally the International Atomic Energy Agency "works for the saf..

Nuclear Safety and Control Act
The Nuclear Safety and Control Act (NSCA) of Canada replaced the Atomic Energy Control Act of 1946 with new, more effective and explicit legislation to regulate the activities of the Canadian nuclear industry. The NSCA also provided for the establishment of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CN..

Nuclear salt-water rocket
A nuclear salt-water rocket is a type of nuclear thermal rocket designed by Robert Zubrin that would be fueled by water bearing dissolved salts of plutonium or U235. These would be stored in tanks that would prevent a critical mass from forming by some combination of geometry or neutron absorption...

Nuclear sclerosis
Nuclear sclerosis, also known as lenticular sclerosis, is a normal progressive change of the lens in older dogs. It is a consistent finding in dogs greater than seven years old. Nuclear sclerosis appears as a bilateral bluish-grey haziness at the nucleus, or center of the lens. It is often con..

Nuclear sharing
Nuclear sharing is a concept in NATO's policy of nuclear deterrence, which involves member countries without nuclear weapons of their own in the planning for the use of nuclear weapons by NATO, and in particular provides for the armed forces of these countries to be involved in delivering these wea..

Nuclear space
In mathematics, a nuclear space is a topological vector space with many of the good properties of finite dimensional vector spaces. The topology on them can be defined by a family of seminorms whose unit balls decrease rapidly in size. Vector spaces whose elements are "smooth" in some sense tend to ..

Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array
The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, was intended to be a space-based X-ray telescope such as Chandra X-ray Observatory and XMM-Newton. The program was cancelled in February 2006 as NASA presented its 2007 budget. NuSTAR was intended to use grazing incidence mirrors to focus high e..

Nuclear strategy
Nuclear strategy involves the development of doctrines and strategies for the production and use of nuclear weapons. Nuclear strategy, as a sub-branch of military strategy, attempts to match nuclear weapons as means to political ends. Among the issues considered within nuclear strategy are: under ..

Nuclear strike
Nuclear strike may refer to: Nuclear warfarea video game, see Strike seriesThis is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. ..

Nuclear summer
A Nuclear summer is a hypothetical scenario resulting from nuclear warfare that would follow a nuclear winter. In this scenario, the amount of water in the stratosphere would increase, causing greenhouse warming of the surface. The nuclear detonations would also produce oxides of nitrogen that would..

Nuclear Suppliers Group
The Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) is a multinational body concerned with reducing nuclear proliferation by controlling the export and re-transfer of materials that may be applicable to nuclear weapon development and by improving safeguards and protection on existing materials. It was founded in 197..

Nuclear technology
A residential smoke detector is for most people the most familiar piece of nuclear technology Nuclear technology is technology that involves the reactions of atomic nuclei. It has found applications from smoke detectors to nuclear reactors, and from gun sights to nuclear weapons. There is a ..

Nuclear technology in the United States
President Dwight D. Eisenhower opened the Shippingport power plant atomic power station on May 26, 1958 as part of his Atoms for Peace program. Shippingport was the first commercial nuclear power plant built in the United States. In 2004 in the United States, there were 104 (69 pressurized water r..

Nuclear terrorism
TerrorismGeneral Definitions Conventions Counterterrorism War on Terrorism Lists Organizations Incidents Types Nationalist Religious State State-sponsored Racist Narcoterrorism Anarchist Political Eco-terrorism Tactics Hijacking Assassination IED (bomb) Car bombing Su..

Nuclear testing
Preparation for an underground nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site in the 1980s. Visible in the photograph are the test monitoring equipment, as well as the subsidence craters created by previous underground nuclear tests. Nuclear weapons History of nuclear weapons Nuclear warfare ..

Nuclear thermal rocket
In a nuclear thermal rocket a working fluid, usually hydrogen, is heated in a high temperature nuclear reactor, and then expands through a rocket nozzle to create thrust. The nuclear reactor's energy replaces the chemical energy of the reactive chemicals in a traditional rocket engine. Due to the hi..

Nuclear transfer
Process Nuclear Transfer is a form of cloning. The steps involve piercing the membrane of a donor egg cell and sucking the nucleus and DNA out of the cell; injecting a nucleus with the clonee's DNA; and placing that egg in the uterus of a female. This produces a clone with the same DNA as the clon..

Nuclear utilization target selection
Nuclear utilization target selection (NUTS) was a strategy developed during the Cold War as a means for one world nuclear power to achieve victory against another world nuclear power. To be victorious, the attacker had to destroy the target country's nuclear arsenal in a massive first strike. The a..

Nuclear Valdez
Nuclear Valdez is a rock band. They released 2 albums for Epic Records in the early 1990s. Background Information Band released 2 critically acclaimed CDs for Epic Records in the early 90's: I am I and Dream another dream.Their "Summer" video was on Active Rotation on MTV.Band did MTV promo spot wi..

Nuclear warfare
This article is about nuclear war as a form of actual warfare, including history. For the card game, see Nuclear War (card game). The Titan II ICBM carried a 9 Mt W53 warhead, making it one of the most powerful nuclear weapons fielded by the United States during the Cold War. Nuclear weapons..

Nuclear War (card game)
Nuclear War is a card game designed by Douglas Malewicki, and originally published in 1966. It is currently (as of 2005) published by Flying Buffalo, and has inspired several expansions. It simulates an end-of-the-world scenario fought mostly with nuclear weapons. Contents 1 Gameplay2&nb..

Nuclear Waste Management Organization (Canada)
The Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) of Canada was established under the Nuclear Fuel Waste Act (NFWA) to investigate approaches for managing Canada’s used nuclear fuel. Used nuclear fuel is a by-product of the generation of electricity in a nuclear power plant. If not managed proper..

Nuclear Waste Policy Act
The Nuclear Waste Policy Act is a United States federal law enacted in 1982. It established a national program for disposal of highly radioactive wastes, and resulted in the studying of Yucca Mountain as a possible site for long-term disposal of radioactive waste. External links [About the Nu..

Nuclear weapon
[Featured articles ] The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, 1945, rose some 18 kilometers (11 mi) above the hypocenter. Nuclear weapons History of nuclear weapons Nuclear warfare Nuclear arms race Weapon design / testing Nuc..

Nuclear weapons and the United Kingdom
United Kingdom Nuclear program start date: October 21, 1939 First nuclear weapon test: October 2, 1952 First fusion weapon test: May 15, 1957 Last nuclear test: November 26, 1991 Largest yield test: 3 Mt (April 28, 1958) Total tests: 45 detonations Peak stockpile: 350 warheads (1970s)..

Nuclear weapons and the United States
United States Nuclear program start date: October 21, 1939 First nuclear weapon test: July 16, 1945 First fusion weapon test: November 1, 1952 Last nuclear test: September 23, 1992 Largest yield test: 15 Mt (October 31, 1954) Total tests: 1,054 detonations Peak stockpile: 32,193 warhe..

Nuclear weapons delivery
Contents 1 Main delivery mechanisms1.1 Gravity bomb1.2 Ballistic missile1.3 Cruise missile1.4 Other delivery systems2 Design issues3 See also Nuclear weapons History of nuclear weapons Nuclear warfare Nuclear arms race Weapon design / testing ..

Nuclear weapons in popular culture
The 1957 photograph of Miss Atomic Bomb, a Las Vegas showgirl with a mushroom cloud dress, has often been used as representative of Cold War kitsch and a symbol of the effects of nuclear weapons on American popular culture. Since their dramatic public debut in August 1945, nuclear weapons hav..

Nuclear weapon design
The first nuclear weapons, though large, cumbersome and inefficient, provided the basic design building blocks of all future weapons. Here the "Gadget" device is prepared for the first nuclear test: "Trinity". Nuclear weapons History of nuclear weapons Nuclear warfare Nuclear arms ..

Nuclear weapon yield
Nuclear weapons History of nuclear weapons Nuclear warfare Nuclear arms race Weapon design / testing Nuclear explosion Delivery systems Nuclear espionage Proliferation Countries Nuclear weapons states US · Russia · UK · France China · India · Pakistan Israel �..

Nuclear West Central Papuan languages
Nuclear West Central Papuan Languages Spoken in: Eastern New Guinea Geneticclassification: Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central Eastern Malayo-Polynesian Eastern Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Oceanic &..

Nuclear winter
Nuclear winter is a hypothetical global climate condition that is predicted to be a possible outcome of a large-scale nuclear war. It is thought that severely cold weather can be caused by detonating large numbers of nuclear weapons, especially over flammable targets such as cities, where large amou..

Nuclear winter preparedness day
Nuclear Winter Preparedness Day is celebrated annually on February 13. Founded by Karen Bemis in 2002, the holiday is a time to celebrate your loved ones in the most meaningful way: by preparing them to face the eventuality of nuclear holocaust. Celebrants typically exchange such gifts as SPAM and..

Nuclear Winter Studios
Please [Glossary#Wwikify] (format) this article or section as suggested in the [Guide to layoutGuide to layout] and the [Manual of StyleManual of Style]. Remove this template after wikifying. This article has been tagged since April 2006. The Group Nuclear Winter S..

Nuclease
A nuclease is an enzyme capable of cleaving the phosphodiester bonds between the nucleotide subunits of nucleic acids. Contents 1 Introduction2 Site-specific nuclease3 Endonucleases and DNA fragments4 Endonucleases and sticky ends5 Common examples6 External links In..

Nucleation
Bubbles in a soft drink each nucleate independently, responding to a decrease in pressure. Nucleation is the onset of a phase transition in a small but stable region. The phase transition can be the formation of a gas o