The heads of the some of the most powerful countries in the world would be wise to listen to the devastating testimony of Hiroshima survivors.
A U.S. Air Force jet performs a test drop of a B61-12 bomb in December 2021. That bomb can contain a nuclear warhead for use in wartime.
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Both the Russian and US arsenals boast thousands of nuclear weapons, located in various places around their own countries and, for the US, in Europe as well.
At the end of ‘Don’t Look Up,’ the protagonists gather for a final meal.
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Experts around the world have been warning nuclear weapons are increasingly being seen as ‘usable’ by the political and military leaders who wield them.
The volcano shortly before its eruption.
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The cinematic legacies of Operation Crossroads, the first peacetime nuclear tests, fundamentally shaped how we view the mushroom cloud.
Fire a set of high-power lasers at a tiny speck of hydrogen isotopes and you can initiate nuclear fusion, the process that powers the Sun.
National Ignition Facility
Scientists are working on ways to make lots of energy by converting matter into energy. The trick is keeping the process under control. One possibility is nuclear fusion – the Sun’s power source.
Albert Einstein photographed on a trip to America in the wake of his Nobel prize-winning discoveries.
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It’s not only nuclear bomb tests that disrupt the atmosphere, there are a number of natural events that can do the same. But how long does any damage last?
A B-61 bomb, like the ones stored at the US Incirlik Airbase in Turkey.
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No-deal preparations have been both criticised as being part of ‘Project Fear’ and used to show that Brexit will be disaster. Here’s the history behind this kind of planning.
In what came to be known as the Thule incident, an American bomber crashed in Greenland, spreading radioactive wreckage across 3 square miles of a frozen fjord. Denmark was not happy.