The Cold War nuclear test that turned the sky crimson
The military wanted to test the electromagnetic impacts of nuclear weapons in space. In 1962 they lit up the sky.
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Radioactive Dust Still Blows Over The Sahara From Cold War Nuclear Tests
The large Saharan dust cloud that blanketed Europe back in March 2022 contained some unexpected ingredients, according to a ...
Nuclear’s Long Shadow In The Philippines
It’s getting hotter — and more expensive to stay cool — in the island nation. Will it become the first in Southeast Asia to ...
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Pedro Reyes Believes in the Practical Duty and Emotional Impact of Public Art
Generations have passed without leaving a mark. It’s time to change that and create something that can resonate with both the ...
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Inside Project A119, America’s Top-Secret Plot To Detonate A Nuclear Bomb On The Moon During The Cold War
"You know what? The Moon's big enough that we can nuke it and land on it at the same time, so let's give this a shot." In 1958, the U.S. government plotted to show up the Soviets in the Space Race — ...
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Saharan dust winds carry radiation from Cold War-era nuclear testing: Study
The nuclear tests conducted by the United States and the then USSR (present day Russia) during the Cold War-era have left ...
How to stop an asteroid hitting Earth: Would people co-operate to face a global peril?
On the world's first Asteroid Day, Nina Burleigh discovers that Nasa has already commissioned a team of 'planetary defenders' ...
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40 cosmic questions and answers
These popular astronomy questions, answered by Astronomy magazine, will help you better understand our universe - and share ...
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Yoshiro Yamawaki recalls the end of the world when atomic bomb was dropped in Nagasaki
Originally, the Americans targeted the city of Kokura, but decided to drop the bomb on Nagasaki after cloud cover over Kokura ... for a World without Nuclear Weapons, appointed by the Ministry ...
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The Jewish story behind ‘Oppenheimer,’ explained
Oppenheimer’s name has become “a metaphor for mass death beneath a mushroom cloud ... of a hydrogen bomb. Oppenheimer pressed for international control of nuclear weapons, believing ...
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Trump gives green light for transfer to Israel of 11-ton Mother of All Bombs
U.S. President Donald Trump has reportedly given the greenlight for the transfer of 11-ton bombs, dubbed the “Mother of All ...