Until Moscow resumed nuclear testing last September 1, the US and UK had released more than twice as much radiation into the atmosphere as the Russians, and the fallout from the earlier blasts is still coming down.

Oxford, UK and Indianapolis, US, The Fridtjol Nansen Institute & The International African Institute in association with James Currey and Indiana University Press.

Dynamite was patented in the US and the UK and was used extensively in mining and the building of transport networks internationally.

Some architects specialize as building code, building envelope, sustainable design, technical writing, historic preservation ( US ) or conservation ( UK ), accessibility and other forms of specialist consultants.

So named due to its resemblance to a traditional agricultural plough ( or more specifically two ploughshares ), many manufacturers produce a plough-style design, all based on or direct copies of the original CQR ( Secure ), a 1933 design patented in the UK ( US patent in 1934 ) by mathematician Geoffrey Ingram Taylor.

* 1944 – World War II: Nine German E-boats attacked US and UK units during Exercise Tiger, the rehearsal for the Normandy landings, killing 946.

Where British and American vocabulary differs, Australians sometimes favour an Australian usage, as with footpath ( for US sidewalk, UK pavement ) or capsicum ( for US bell pepper, UK sweet pepper ).

In other instances, it either shares a term with American English, as with truck ( UK: lorry ) or eggplant ( UK: aubergine ), or sometimes with British English, as with mobile phone ( US: cell phone ) or bonnet ( US: hood ).

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) Finally, the past tense and past participle of dwell and kneel are more commonly dwelt and knelt in both standards, with dwelled and kneeled as common variants in the US but not in the UK.

This is mostly a matter of terminology, and US Asatru may be equated with UK Odinism for practical purposes, as is evident in the short-lived International Asatru-Odinic Alliance of folkish Asatru / Odinist groups.

In 1983 an a cappella group known as The Flying Pickets had a Christmas ' number one ' in the UK with a cover of Yazoo's ( known in the US as Yaz ) " Only You ".

The Paige / Dickson duet " I Know Him So Well " became a major UK # 1 hit, and Murray Head's " One Night in Bangkok " gave Andersson / Ulvaeus a US # 3 hit.

" That'll Be the Day " topped the Billboard US " Best Sellers in Stores " chart on September 23, and was on the UK Singles Chart for three weeks in November.

There are also a number of acts both in the US ( Johnny Rogers, John Mueller ) and UK ( Marc Robinson, Spencer J etc.

It was published only in the US during Potter ’ s lifetime, and not until 1952 in the UK.

It is approximately the amount of energy needed to heat of water, which is exactly one tenth of a UK gallon or about 0. 1198 US gallons, from 39 ° F to 40 ° F ( 3. 8 ° C to 4. 4 ° C ).

Boudica has been the subject of two feature films, the 1928 film Boadicea, where she was portrayed by Phyllis Neilson-Terry, and 2003's Boudica ( Warrior Queen in the US ), a UK TV film written by Andrew Davies and starring Alex Kingston as Boudica.

Nevertheless, it should be noted that the spectrum is broad in the EU, with the UK coming closest to the US system ( Reifner et al., 2003 ; Gerhardt, 2009 ; Frade, 2010 ).

Governments and other financing sources in recipient countries, including project participants, contributed US $ 10. 8 billion (€ 7. 5 billion ), and multilateral, bilateral and other donors provided approximately another US $ 8. 8 billion, € 5 billion in cofinancing.

Governments, law enforcement and intelligence services use mobiles to perform surveillance in the UK and the US.

There was also a report on the international commission in April 1961 entitled " Investigation of the International Passamaquoddy Tidal Power Project " produced by both the US and Canadian Federal Governments.

After General Charles de Gaulle argued about US-leadership within the NATO Alliance and following the unconditional support entrusted by the US Governments to dubious right-wing military regimes in the name of Communist Containment policy-such as the Spanish Franco and Portuguese Salazar's dictatorships or the Greek Regime of the Colonels, in the wake of the Vietnam War protests, democratic left-wing public opinion in the USA and in Europe raised the controversial question of the MAPs being used as instruments of some form of covert ultra-conservative political US imperialism.

In response to the expropriation of prime-farmland assets, the United Fruit Company asked the US Governments of presidents Harry Truman ( 1945 – 53 ) and Dwight Eisenhower ( 1953 – 61 ) to act diplomatically, economically, and militarily against Guatemalan President Árbenz Guzmán, which, in 1954, resulted in the Guatemalan coup d ’ état that provoked the thirty-six-year Guatemalan Civil War, from 1960 to and 1996, in which were killed 140, 000 to 250, 000 Guatemalans.

In 1956, an agreement was achieved between the Soviet and US Governments to resume the publication and distribution in the Soviet Union of the US-produced magazine Amerika ( magazine ), and to launch its counterpart, the USSR magazine in the USA.

Due to an agreement between the West German and US Governments, Uchtdorf trained as a fighter pilot in Big Spring, Texas where he excelled, earning the coveted Commander's Trophy ( USAF ) for being the best student pilot in his class.

The high-level, practical training at SPE propels its graduates into positions at top universities, in think tanks, in the US and Foreign Governments, with World Bank and International Monetary Fund among other international organizations.

The approval of other European Governments which would have been necessary for instance to permit TWA to carry passengers between London and a European city or British Airways to embark passengers in a Continental city for carriage to the US was simply not forthcoming in most cases.

Dead Biofouling, under a wood boat ( detail ) Governments and industry spend more than US $ 5. 7 billion annually to prevent and control marine biofouling.

The Australian and US Federal Governments recently awarded funding for a study into how the polar vortex might influence drought in Australia.

South of the Santa Maria River, I-11 would mostly follow US 93's alignment, although the proposal for the Hassayampa Freeway by the Maricopa Association of Governments shows the likely I-11 corridor branching off from US 93 west of Wickenburg, bypassing the town.

Retrieved October 21, 2007 .</ ref > The ROK and US Governments have agreed on the transfer of wartime operational control to the South Korean government in 2015.

UNDEF subsists entirely on voluntary contributions from Governments ; in 2010, it surpassed US $ 110 million in cumulative contributions from 39 countries, including a wide range of non-traditional donor countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

The Tennessee Senate, controlled by Democrats and led by Johnson, boycotted the joint session and blocked the filling of both the US Senate seats, denying Tennessee representation in the U. S. Senate until 1843.

A nuclear war would no longer be a favorable exchange for the US, as both countries would be devastated.

A number of possible reasons have been proposed, but none have been proven, and none can explain the lack of efficacy in both low TB burden countries ( US ) and high TB burden countries ( India ).

After the Cuban War of Independence and the US occupation of Cuba, " The Original Cuba Libre " and the Daiquiri were both born with Bacardi rum.

The first single " Better Be Home Soon " peaked at number two on both Australian and New Zealand singles charts and reached top 50 In the US, though the following four singles were less successful.

An example of this is the Royal Dutch Shell Oil Reserves Settlement that was declared binding upon both US and non-US plaintiffs.

After a cutoff in US military support and with both sides facing international pressure to bring an end to the conflict, the contras agreed to negotiations with the FSLN.

The concept of clairvoyance gained some support from the US and Soviet governments both during and after the Cold War, and both governments made several attempts to harness it as an intelligence gathering tool.

Progressive rock group Pink Floyd, when creating their rock opera The Wall, used disco-style components in their song, " Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2 " ( 1979 )— which became the group's only # 1 hit single ( in both the US and UK ).

On 30 December 1966, the US and the UK executed an agreement through an Exchange of Notes which permit the US to use the BIOT for defense purposes for 50 years ( through December 2016 ), followed by a 20-year optional extension ( to 2036 ) to which both parties must agree by December 2014.

Young Americans was a commercial success in both the US and the UK, and a re-issue of the 1969 single " Space Oddity " became Bowie's first number one hit in the UK a few months after " Fame " achieved the same in the US.

Co-produced by Chic's Nile Rodgers, the album went platinum in both the UK and the US.

It reached the Top 10 in both the UK and the US, and peaked at number 3 in Germany.

From 1972 to 1986, ELO accumulated 27 Top-40 hit singles in both the UK and the US.

The onset of US involvement in World War II also brought a proliferation of films as both patriotism and propaganda.

In the US, Flipside and Slash were important punk zines for the Los Angeles scene, both debuting in 1977.

These included strikes against leading Jordanian politicians, as a means of exacting vengeance and raising the price for attacking the Palestinian movement ; and also, most controversially, for " international operations " ( e. g. the Munich Olympics attack ), intended both to put pressure on the US, European countries and Israel, and to raise the visibility of the Palestinian cause, and to upstage radical rivals such as the PFLP.

The United States Food and Drug Administration lists these items as " Generally recognized as safe " or GRAS ; they are listed under both their Chemical Abstract Services number and Fukda regulation under the US Code of Federal Regulations.

A GT40 / R ( GT40P / 2094 ) campaigned by Pathfinder Motorsports with an engine built by Holman Moody won both the 2009 US Vintage Grand Prix and the 2009 Governor's Cup at Watkins Glen.

In 2006 there was one operational set of traffic lights but in July 2007, a modern system was installed by Indian firm CMS Traffic Systems Limited, through a US $ 2. 1 million line of credit to the government from India ’ s EXIM Bank, providing signals for both vehicular and pedestrian traffic.