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A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion (thermonuclear weapon). Both reactions release vast quantities of energy from relatively small amounts of matter. The first fission ("atomic") bomb test released the same amount of energy as approximately 20,000 tons of TNT (see Trinity (nuclear test)). The first thermonuclear ("hydrogen") bomb test released the same amount of energy as approximately 10,000,000 tons of TNT.
A thermonuclear weapon weighing little more than 2,400 pounds (1,100 kg) can produce an explosive force comparable to the detonation of more than 1.2 million tons (1.1 million tonnes) of TNT. A nuclear device no larger than traditional bombs can devastate an entire city by blast, fire, and radiation. Nuclear weapons are considered weapons of mass destruction, and their use and control have been a major focus of international relations policy since their debut.
The Kansas City metropolitan area is a 14-county metropolitan area anchored by Kansas City, Missouri that straddles the border between the U.S. states of Missouri and Kansas. With a population of 2,393,623, it ranks as the second largest metropolitan area with its core in Missouri (after Greater St. Louis) and has a population in Kansas larger than the Wichita metropolitan area. Alongside Kansas City, the area includes a number of other cities and suburbs, the largest being Overland Park, Kansas; Kansas City, Kansas; and Independence, Missouri; all over 100,000 in population.The Mid-America Regional Council (MARC) serves as the Council of Governments and the Metropolitan Planning Organization for the area.
The larger Kansas City Metropolitan Area as seen on a map can be visualized roughly as four quadrants:
The northeast quadrant of the map is locally referred to as "north of the river" or "the Northland". It includes parts of Clay County, Missouri including North Kansas City, Missouri. North Kansas City is bounded by a bend in the Missouri River that defines a border between Wyandotte County, Kansas and Clay County, Missouri running approximately North-South and a border between North Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas City, Missouri running approximately East-West. The sharpest part of the river bend forms a peninsula containing the Kansas City Downtown Airport.
NNSA may refer to
The United States National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is part of the United States Department of Energy. It works to improve national security through the military application of nuclear energy. The NNSA maintains and improves the safety, reliability, and performance of the United States nuclear weapons stockpile through the use of science, technology, and engineering. It is also responsible for many nuclear nonproliferation, counter-terrorism, counter-proliferation, and radiological emergency response efforts for the United States, along with the naval reactors for the United States Navy.
Frank Klotz is the Under Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Security and Administrator of NNSA.
The National Nuclear Security Administration was created by Congressional action in 1999, in the wake of the Wen Ho Lee spy scandal and other allegations that lax administration by the Department of Energy had resulted in the loss of U.S. nuclear secrets to China. Originally proposed to be an independent agency, NNSA gained the reluctant support of the Clinton Administration only after it was instead chartered as a sub-agency within the Department of Energy, to be headed by an Administrator reporting to the Secretary of Energy. The first NNSA Administrator appointed was Air Force General (and CIA Deputy Director) John A. Gordon.
Security Administration may refer to:
The Office of Secure Transportation (OST) is managed by the National Nuclear Security Administration. OST is responsible for the safe and secure transport in the contiguous United States of government-owned special nuclear materials. These classified shipments can contain nuclear weapons or components, enriched uranium, or plutonium. The cargo is transported in highly modified secure tractor-trailers and escorted by armed Federal Agents in other vehicles who provide security and national incident command system response in the event of emergencies.
One of the primary missions of NNSA is to maintain and enhance the safety, security and reliability of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile. NNSA, through its Office of Defense Programs, ensures that the U.S. nuclear arsenal meets the countrys national security requirements and continues to serve its essential deterrence role. More information: http://www.nnsa.energy.gov/aboutus/ourprograms/defenseprograms
http://www.nnsa.energy.gov/mediaroom/pressreleases/b61-12-tonopah-test 99th Air Base Wing Public Affairs. Video filmed by STAFF SGT Cody Griffith. Fan Funding : PayPal : arronlee33@hotmail.com. Thanks a lot for your support! :-)
Each year Northrop Grumman hosts a summer intern program for cadets from the various Military Academies at the Nevada National Security Site.
July 13, 2013 - Kansas City, MO About 80 persons sang and prayed at the entry road to a new facility in the U.S. nuclear weapons complex. By 10:15 a.m., two dozen protesters had crossed the property line and were soon arrested. The five-building facility, the Kansas City Plant, at 14510 Botts Road in KC, Mo., will by next year house the operations of the current KC Plant (at Bannister and Troost in KC), where 85 percent of the non-nuclear parts for U.S. nuclear weapons are made or procured. During a brief ceremony, the 80 persons pledged "to strive for peace within myself and seek to be a peacemaker in my daily life ... to persevere in nonviolence of tongue and heart ... to work to abolish war and the causes of war from my own heart and from the face of the earth." With the assembly singi...
The National Nuclear Security Administration regularly deploys its Aerial Measuring Systems in helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft nationwide for training and in advance of major events to measure naturally occurring background radiation. The measurement of naturally occurring radiation to establish baseline levels is a normal part of security and emergency preparedness. This video illustrates how the team managing the Aerial Measuring Systems accomplishes their mission.
As part of the Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration's response to the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, the Department deployed 33 people and more than 17,200 pounds of equipment - including Consequence Management Response Teams and NNSA Aerial Measuring Systems - to Japan late Monday afternoon.
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) removed the final highly enriched uranium (HEU) from Chile, making it the fifth country to remove all of its HEU since President Obama called for an international effort to secure all vulnerable nuclear material around the world within four years. The operation in Chile was successfully completed despite a massive earthquake on Feb. 27 and numerous aftershocks that occurred while the NNSA team was in the country.
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The Office of Secure Transportation (OST) is managed by the National Nuclear Security Administration. OST is responsible for the safe and secure transport in the contiguous United States of government-owned special nuclear materials. These classified shipments can contain nuclear weapons or components, enriched uranium, or plutonium. The cargo is transported in highly modified secure tractor-trailers and escorted by armed Federal Agents in other vehicles who provide security and national incident command system response in the event of emergencies.
One of the primary missions of NNSA is to maintain and enhance the safety, security and reliability of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile. NNSA, through its Office of Defense Programs, ensures that the U.S. nuclear arsenal meets the countrys national security requirements and continues to serve its essential deterrence role. More information: http://www.nnsa.energy.gov/aboutus/ourprograms/defenseprograms
http://www.nnsa.energy.gov/mediaroom/pressreleases/b61-12-tonopah-test 99th Air Base Wing Public Affairs. Video filmed by STAFF SGT Cody Griffith. Fan Funding : PayPal : arronlee33@hotmail.com. Thanks a lot for your support! :-)
Each year Northrop Grumman hosts a summer intern program for cadets from the various Military Academies at the Nevada National Security Site.
July 13, 2013 - Kansas City, MO About 80 persons sang and prayed at the entry road to a new facility in the U.S. nuclear weapons complex. By 10:15 a.m., two dozen protesters had crossed the property line and were soon arrested. The five-building facility, the Kansas City Plant, at 14510 Botts Road in KC, Mo., will by next year house the operations of the current KC Plant (at Bannister and Troost in KC), where 85 percent of the non-nuclear parts for U.S. nuclear weapons are made or procured. During a brief ceremony, the 80 persons pledged "to strive for peace within myself and seek to be a peacemaker in my daily life ... to persevere in nonviolence of tongue and heart ... to work to abolish war and the causes of war from my own heart and from the face of the earth." With the assembly singi...
The National Nuclear Security Administration regularly deploys its Aerial Measuring Systems in helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft nationwide for training and in advance of major events to measure naturally occurring background radiation. The measurement of naturally occurring radiation to establish baseline levels is a normal part of security and emergency preparedness. This video illustrates how the team managing the Aerial Measuring Systems accomplishes their mission.
As part of the Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration's response to the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, the Department deployed 33 people and more than 17,200 pounds of equipment - including Consequence Management Response Teams and NNSA Aerial Measuring Systems - to Japan late Monday afternoon.
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) removed the final highly enriched uranium (HEU) from Chile, making it the fifth country to remove all of its HEU since President Obama called for an international effort to secure all vulnerable nuclear material around the world within four years. The operation in Chile was successfully completed despite a massive earthquake on Feb. 27 and numerous aftershocks that occurred while the NNSA team was in the country.
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View more information on the DOE NNSA SSGF Program at http://www.krellinst.org/ssgf Since 2009, the Inertial Confinement Fusion Program (ICF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has been conducting experiments at the National Ignition Facility (NIF), with the eventual goal of igniting DT plasma. This requires using the 1.8 MJ of energy in the NIF’s 192 laser beams to compress BB-sized capsules containing DT fuel and form a central DT “hot spot” with conditions similar to those at the center of the sun. Under these conditions DT fuses rapidly to produce a 14 MeV neutron, which escapes, and a 3.5 MeV alpha particle, which deposits its energy in the hot spot, provided it has sufficient areal density (greater than 0.2 g/cm2). If the self-heating from the alpha particles is strong enough...
NNSA officials recently participated in an event at the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the last U.S. underground nuclear explosive test and to highlight the successes of the NNSA's Stockpile Stewardship Program.
View more information on the DOE NNSA SSGF Program at http://www.krellinst.org/ssgf Carbon is an essential component of life on Earth and plays a role in the carbon cycle at the surface of the Earth. Beyond these surface interactions lies the deep carbon cycle. This cycle controls the flux of carbon subducting into the earth and provides clues as a possible carbon reservoir in the deep earth. The studies included in my dissertation examine various forms of carbonate under high pressure and high temperature conditions found in the deep earth. Carbon is subducted as carbonate in calcite, aragonite and dolomite, as elemental carbon or as CO2. To achieve the high pressures experienced by subducting material, diamond anvil cells are used to expose milligrams of material to extreme conditions. ...
View more information on the DOE NNSA SSGF Program at http://www.krellinst.org/ssgf On the National Ignition Facility (NIF), a magnetic particle-time-of-flight (magPTOF) diagnostic has been designed for measurements of both shock- and compression-bang times. This type of measurement, combined with the measured areal density (ρR) measured along different lines of sight, will be used to assess evolution of ρR and ρR asymmetries from shock to compression. The magPTOF design is an upgrade to the existing particle time-of-flight (pTOF) diagnostic, which has recorded accurate bang times in cryogenic DT implosions, DT exploding pushers and D3He implosions with accuracy better than 70 ps. The inclusion of a deflecting magnet will increase proton signal-to-background by a factor of 1,000, allowing...
View more information on the DOE NNSA SSGF Program at http://www.krellinst.org/ssgf Los Alamos National Laboratory has performed high-energy-density shear experiments at the OMEGA Laser Facility and National Ignition Facility (NIF). The experiments have been simulated using the LANL radiation-hydrocode RAGE and have been used to assess turbulence models’ ability to function in the high-energy-density, inertial-fusion-relevant regime. Beginning with the basic configuration of two counter-oriented shock-driven flows of greater than 100 km/s, which initiate a strong shear instability across an initially solid-density, 20-μm thick Al plate, variations of the experiment to details of the initial conditions have been performed. These variations have included increasing the fluid densities (by m...
View more information on the DOE NNSA SSGF Program at http://www.krellinst.org/ssgf. Krystle Catalli Massachusetts Institute of Technology The thicknesses and Clapeyron slopes of mineral phase boundaries strongly influence the seismic detectability of the boundaries, as well as convection in the Earth's mantle. In recent years, Mg-silicate perovskite, the dominant mineral in the lower mantle, was found to undergo a structural transition to the post-perovskite phase near 125 gigapascals, a pressure consistent with the D'' seismic discontinuity. Composition is expected to affect the pressure at which the transition occurs and whether it is a sharp or broad transition. We have investigated the effects of iron and aluminum as well as coexisting minerals on the perovskite to post-perovskite t...
View more information on the DOE NNSA SSGF Program at http://www.krellinst.org/ssgf A spectroscopic factor (SF) quantifies the single-particle structure of a given state in a nucleus. The SFs of a nucleus can be probed using nuclear reactions and should be invariant regardless of what reaction probe is used. There is a discrepancy in extracted SFs between studies that use transfer reactions(1) and those that use knockout reactions(2). Resolving this discrepancy is important not only for understanding how SFs change across the isotopic chain (which reflects changes in single-particle structure and the influence of nucleon correlations), but also for properly comprehending the relevant nuclear reaction probes themselves. Kinematically complete measurements of the transfer reactions 34Ar(p,d...
View more information on the DOE NNSA SSGF program at http://www.krellinst.org/ssgf Alex Main, Stanford University This talk examines the design and implementation of embedded boundary methods for problems involving multiphysics – specifically, those involving fluid-fluid and fluid-structure interactions – with an emphasis on those problems involving complex, highly nonlinear phenomena. This talk describes a variety of contributions made to embedded boundary methods for problems involving extreme conditions. First, an implicit time-stepping scheme for embedded boundary methods is designed and implemented, showing speedups of 40 times over the comparable explicit counterpart for problems. This framework is validated on problems involving hydrostatic implosions. Then, a second-order accur...
View more information on the DOE NNSA SSGF program at http://www.krellinst.org/ssgf Paul Miller, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory The unexpected impact of an asteroid near Chelyabinsk, Russia, in 2013 attracted worldwide attention. More than 7,000 buildings were damaged and almost 1,500 people were injured. If an object less than 20 meters in diameter can cause such damage, what might larger ones do? We will introduce the impact problem and discuss various elements, including efforts to survey the population of threatening asteroids, governmental interest, impact effects, and what might be done to prevent such events by deflecting or disrupting objects. The scientific and engineering aspects of defending Earth from impacts also will be discussed, including the challenges of modelin...
View more information on the DOE NNSA SSGF Program at http://www.krellinst.org/ssgf. Todd Ditmire Department of Physics and the Texas Center for High Intensity Laser Science, The University of Texas at Austin At the University of Texas we have constructed a high peak power, ultrafast laser which delivers power in excess of 1 petawatt (1015 W). This laser, the Texas Petawatt Laser, is presently the highest power laser in the world. The laser delivers 130 fs pulses with pulse energy exceeding 180 J. In my talk, I will report on the design and performance of the laser, including the technology used to access such high powers and near 100 fs compressed pulse duration. With this unique pulse characteristic, the Texas Petawatt has applications in a number of scientific areas. These application...
Intro: Jadakiss]
I need it from the top, AHHH!
This is history baby
Commissioner Steve Stoute, Lenny - ha!
God's Son, whattup?
D-Block, whattup?
Bravehearts, whattup? Yeah
Yeah, yo
[Verse One: Jadakiss]
Yo ain't nothin but trouble God
When I kick in the door with D-Block, Bravehearts and the Double R
Don't make me let the machine off
This is methadone music that you can lean off
"Made You Look," the remix with me up on it
I copped your shit, now I break weed up on it
And everything is real I see
Like my niggaz that been home but they only got a jail ID
I helped the game, it ain't help me
I'm top five dead or alive and that's just off one LP
And, I still buzz, they feel cuz
Cause they know the flow's Ill just like Will was
I'm just tryin to make sure that my sons wealthy
Out of shape but I make sure that my guns healthy
I'm a ape, you can't stand 'Kiss
Comin through the hood in a Aston Vanguish the color of dandruff
They said we jumped him, I just let the gun snuff him
Copped P then turboed soon as they uncuff him
This goes out to all of your mans
Why put you in the verse when I can put in a coroner van
D-Block
[Chorus 2X: Nas]
THEY SHOOTIN! Ah made you look
You a slave to a page in my rhyme book
Gettin big money, playboy your time's up
Where them gangsters, where them dimes at?
[Verse Two: Ludacris]
Yuh, woo! It's time to go, Luda let's go!
I'm from the school of hard knocks, sneak peeks and low blows
Where X's mark spots and kitchens mark O's
Where love is gon' getcha and hate is gon' snitch ya
And fingers squeeze triggers like boa constrictors
It's the, Mr. Luda, Jada and Nas
And our bullets give you a deep tissue massage
So hear a song and dance while I make these ends
You never stood half a chance like Siamese Twins
AHHH - THEY SHOOTIN, look in the barrel
Then he made the front page of the Miami Herald
or Chi. Tribune, nozzles with silent doom
We in that A-Town Journal-list, filed with goons
You should print my information, quote my rhyme
And keep me in between these New York and L.A. Times
I was the victim of society, it's 'Cris the menace
With mo' shit out on the streets than evicted tenants
WOOOOOOOO!
[Chorus]
[Interlude: Nas]
Uhh.. uhh..
(BRAVE-HEARTS.. BRAVE-HEARTS.. BRAVE-HEARTS.. BRAVE-HEARTS..)
Jungle, Wiz, Nashawn!
We got 'em scared look
We got 'em scared they runnin
[Verse Three: Nas]
Yo, I grasp the ratchet, the blinker, the biscuit, the burner
The heat, the toaster, the twister you meetin your owner
The banger, the hammer, the flamers I aim at the cannons
and can ya, manhandlin ya, you'll be famous like cancer do
And cut, that's the end of your movie
Pretendin you actin like you and your mens'll come shoot me
My tennis shoes Gucci, old school pea soup green
Jean Lee suit on Beaver, clicko champagne
Friday the 13th my CD drop, I rhyme to more Base than EZ Rock
I'm Jason, call up P.D. watch
them Bravehearts, Jungle and Wiz and Nashawn
Ill Will rasta Lake, never revealin his face on
TV or pictures or even them niggaz
Sorry that I made you wait long, glad them fakes gone
[beat scratches out]
WE SHOOTIN! Squeezin them triggers with Luda beside me
Me and 'Kiss get Luniz of weed, set to Styles P.
Tell him hold his head, God's Son got him we made y'all look