Nuclear Explosion - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: nuclear explosionNuclear weapon or other nuclear explosive device
Nuclear weapon or other nuclear explosive device, means any nuclear weapon or other nuclear explosive device as may be determined by the Central Government, whose determination in the matter shall be final [Weapons of Mass Destruction and their Delivery Systems (Prohibitions of Unlawful Activities Act, 2005 (21 of 2005), s. 4(b)]...
nuclear explosion
The explosion of an atomic bomb or atomic device sometimes also used of fusion powered explosions...
Nuclear weapon
A weapon of great explosive power such as an atomic bomb or a hydrogen bomb which depends for most of its explosive power on the release of energy from within atomic nuclei by a nuclear reaction A fission weapon or a fusion weapon The term includes atomic shells for cannon...
Nuclear device
an explosive device whether used as a weapon or for other purposes which depends for most of its explosive power on the release of energy from within atomic nuclei A fission device or a fusion device...
fallout
the radioactive particles that settle to the ground after a nuclear explosion...
Explosives
Explosives, as to injuries by, see the Malicious Damage Act, 1861, ss. 9, 10; the Offences against the Person Act, 1861, ss. 28-30, 64, 65; Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Criminal Law.'The (English) Explosives Act, 1875 (38 Vict. c. 17), as amended and extended by the (English) Explosives Act, 1923 (13 & 14 Geo. 5, c. 17), regulates the manufacture, keeping, sale, and conveyance of gunpowder and other explosives, and the licensing and management of stores, defining 'explosive' in that Act as meaning:gunpowder, nitro-glycerine, dynamite, gun-cotton, blasting powders, fulminate mercury or of other metals, coloured fires, and every other substance, whether similar to those above mentioned or not, used or manufactured with a view to produce a practical effect by explosion or a pyrotechnic effect;And as including:For signals, fireworks, fuses, rockets, percussion caps, detonators, cartridges, ammunition of all descriptions, and every adaptation or preparation of an explosive as above defined.The ...
Explosive substance
Explosive substance, include any materials for mak-ing any explosive substance, also any apparatus, machine, implement or material used, or intended to be used, or adapted for causing, or aiding in causing, any explosion in or with any explosive substance; also any part of any such apparatus, machine or implement, S.K. Shukla v. State of Uttar Pradesh, (2006) 1 SCC 314. (Explosive Substance Act, 1908, s. 2)It has a broader and more comprehensive meaning than the term 'Explosive'. 'Explosive substance' includes 'Explosive'. The dictionary meaning of the word 'explosive' is 'tending to expand suddenly with loud noise, 'tending to cause explosion' (The Concise Oxford Dictionary), Mohd Usman Mohd Hussain Maniyar v. State of Maharashtra, AIR 1981 SC 1062 (1065). [Explosive Substance Act, (6 of 1908), ss. 5, 2]...
Nuclear
of pertaining to or using nuclear weapons a nuclear exchange ie a reciprocal bombardment by nuclear weapons...
nuclear war
A war in which nuclear weapons are used by both sides As generally used the term assumes major use of nuclear weapons by at least two opposing warring states As of 1999 no nuclear war has occurred...
Boiler Explosions Act
Boiler Explosions Act, 1882 (English) (45 & 46Vict. c. 22), whereby detailed notice of an explosion from any boiler, i.e. (s. 3), 'any closed vessel used for generating steam, or for heating water, or for heating other liquids, or into which steam is admitted for heating, steaming, boiling, or other similar purposes,' must be sent within 24 hours by the 'owner or user,' or their agent, to the Board of Trade, who have power to order an inquiry with respect to the explosion. Boilers used exclusively for domestic purposes, and boilers used in the service of his Majesty or on board certificated steamships, were exempted from the Act, and so were some boiler explosions in mines, but an amending 'Boiler Explosions Act, 1890,' repeals these exemptions, except those for Crown and domestic boilers. A pipe may be a 'boiler' within this Act, R. v. Commissioners, (1891) 1 QB 703; but a boiler used for heating business premises in within the exception, Smith v. Muller, (1894) 1 QB 192....
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