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The red line is what is done in most nuclear reactors.

Now, it's kind of nuts to work on a new nuclear reactor.

So, this is my latest cooker, and if this looks more complicated than the nuclear reactor, that's because it is.

This is nuclear power.

Nuclear power runs scenarios on a regular basis in order to practice what they hope will never occur.

140 million Americans voted for the next president of the United States, and yet, as all of us knows, in a few weeks time, somebody is going to hand over the nuclear launch codes to Donald J. Trump.

Humanity was buying everything from crude oil to nuclear reactors.

You can use your energy to build nuclear bombs and spread the darkness of destruction, or you can use it to spread the joy of light to millions.

The full scope of a nuclear detonation is almost unimaginable.

But there is a scientifically supported plan of action that could save hundreds of thousands of lives in the area surrounding a nuclear explosion.

To create their destructive blast, these weapons harness the power of nuclear fission– in which an atom’s nucleus is split in two.

And though it may sound surprising, the best way to stay protected before, during, and after a nuclear detonation, is getting inside.

As the fireball cools, unstable atoms created by the nuclear fission mix with the debris to produce the most dangerous long-term effect of a nuclear detonation: radioactive particles called fallout.

Nuclear weapons are some of the most powerful tools of destruction on Earth, and it may seem naive to put faith in these straightforward protective measures.

And then, the 92 nuclear power plants that it would take to provide the power would fill up the rest of Los Angeles.

That's roughly a third more nuclear power than all of France creates.

If the expansion of the universe continues to accelerate, it will eventually overcome not only the gravitational force – tearing apart galaxies and solar systems– but also the electromagnetic, weak, and strong nuclear forces which hold atoms and nuclei together.

So, a big question that we're facing now and have been for quite a number of years now: are we at risk of a nuclear attack?

Now, there's a bigger question that's probably actually more important than that, is the notion of permanently eliminating the possibility of a nuclear attack, eliminating the threat altogether.

And I would like to make a case to you that over the years since we first developed atomic weaponry, until this very moment, we've actually lived in a dangerous nuclear world that's characterized by two phases, which I'm going to go through with you right now.

First of all, we started off the nuclear age in 1945.

And in 1945, we were the only nuclear power.

We had a few nuclear weapons, two of which we dropped on Japan, in Hiroshima, a few days later in Nagasaki, in August 1945, killing about 250,000 people between those two.

And for a few years, we were the only nuclear power on Earth.

But by 1949, the Soviet Union had decided it was unacceptable to have us as the only nuclear power, and they began to match what the United States had developed.

And from 1949 to 1985 was an extraordinary time of a buildup of a nuclear arsenal that no one could possibly have imagined back in the 1940s.

After 1985, and before the break up of the Soviet Union, we began to disarm from a nuclear point of view.

We began to counter-proliferate, and we dropped the number of nuclear warheads in the world to about a total of 21,000.

They could be "re-commissioned," but the way they count things, which is very complicated, we think we have about a third of the nuclear weapons we had before.

But we also, in that period of time, added two more members to the nuclear club: Pakistan and North Korea.

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