What an atomic bomb detonation in New York’s financial district would look like: detailed simulation
If the bomb detonated at or near ground level, a towering mushroom cloud would form, sucking up soil, steel, concrete, and ...
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Fukushima disaster: 14 years into Japan’s battle to remove 880 tons of nuclear debris
Fourteen years after the devastating earthquake and tsunami led to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident, the site has made ...
Pentagon's nuclear attack prep revealed amid World War Three fears
The US Department of Defense said it would complete a new nuclear attack scenario in order to prepare the country against any attempt to unleash nuclear weapons on North America ...
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A brief history of missing US nuclear weapons
An atomic bomb is designed so that triggering a smaller, conventional explosion within the bomb starts a chain reaction. A thermonuclear weapon expands upon that "primary" bomb to start a nuclear ...
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The humanitarian impacts of nuclear weapons are beyond the capacity of any humanitarian organization to address effectively
The eventual toll was not one hundred thousand wounded, but 140,000 deaths by the end of 1945, increasing further to 320,000 ...
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Broken arrows: The hidden secret behind America’s missing nuclear weapons
Over the years, numerous nuclear weapons have been lost in the US, which have earned the ominous designation of 'Broken ...
Designing Nuclear-Armed Rockets To Destroy Doomsday Asteroids
A White House science advisor recently war-gamed with space agency heads worldwide to devise a planet-saving defense to an ...