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A look at the largest nuclear explosions in history

There has not been a major (or minor) nuclear explosion since the 1960s. This is almost entirely because ...
HUB

Fallout: Eighty years later

Many Americans—including students in the History of the Atomic Bomb course taught at the University of Texas at Austin by Bruce J. Hunt, A&S '84 (PhD)—have learned a version of this story: On Aug. 6, ...
Albuquerque Journal

Fascinating and multifaceted: 'Nuclear Family' tells the story of nuclear weapons and Los Alamos as told through one family

Ty Bannerman will read from and sign copies of “Nuclear Family: a memoir of the atomic west” at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28, as part of the Bad Mouth Reading Series at the q-Staff Theatre, 400 Broadway ...
The Washington Post

A look at past nuclear weapons tests in Russia, China and the U.S.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he had directed the Pentagon to begin testing nuclear weapons “on an equal basis” with Russia and China, triggering uncertainty over the decades-old U.S.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Post-truth disasters: We’re not ready for nuclear war on social media

On the evening of August 4, 2020, a massive explosion rocked the Port of Beirut in Lebanon. The explosion happened as hundreds of cameras were already pointed at a burning warehouse, in which more ...
Rolling Stone

The Devastating Legacy of Nuclear Weapons Tests

MAJURO, MARSHALL ISLANDS — Lemeyo Abon learned about snow from the movies played on projectors by visiting American sailors. But living on Rongelap — a remote tropical atoll in the central Pacific ...
AOL

Chilling doomsday nuclear map reveals how fast US citizens would die from explosion

A chilling map simulation created by top scientists reveals how residents across North America could be impacted by nuclear fallout. Researchers at the Brown Institute for Media Innovation and the ...