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A secret bomb and ruined film: Why the US government only told Kodak it was going to test nuclear bombs
Kodak struck a secret deal with the US government to get advance notice before any nuclear testing …
Maiya Focht
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Long after Oppenheimer, the US is still paying benefits to people who were exposed to radiation from nuclear tests
Years later, US veterans with illnesses related to nuclear weapons testing like the Trinity test se…
Jake Epstein,Chris Panella
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'Oppenheimer' leaves out the most terrifying, deadly risk of nuclear weapons because nobody knew about it until the 1980s
J. Robert Oppenheimer's nightmarish visions in the film pale in comparison to the nuclear winter an…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A nuclear war between India and Pakistan would result in 125 million deaths, global cooling and mass starvation
The brewing tensions between India and Pakistan have to simmer down. Otherwise, the possible conseq…
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Fallout from a Russian nuclear strike on Ukraine could drift into NATO countries and be considered an attack, says head of US Senate Armed Services Committee
According to the alliance's defensive pact, an attack on one NATO nation is an attack on all its me…
Matthew Loh
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Xi personally warned Putin against launching a nuclear strike in Ukraine, report says, drawing a red line for Russia
The Chinese president appears to have spelt out the limits of his support for Russia's Vladimir Put…
Tom Porter
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US honey still contains traces of the radioactive fallout of nuclear bomb testing in the '50s and '60s, study finds
Traces of radioactive cesium-137 act as a marker of "hot spots" of nuclear contamination, but they …
Marianne Guenot
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The US military once blasted airships with nukes on balloons to see if they could drop nuclear bombs on submarines and survive
"In the 1950s, it was more or less the case that if anything could be nuclearized, we thought about…
Chris Panella
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Sheltering miles from a nuclear blast may not be enough to survive unless you know where to hide, new calculations show
Powerful shockwaves from a nuclear explosion may prove deadly, in addition to the blinding light an…
Rupendra Brahambhatt
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Nuclear weapons expert says we should be 'extraordinarily concerned' about Putin nuking Ukraine
Hans Kristensen, a nuclear expert at the Federation of American Scientists, said he's increasingly …
Charles R. Davis
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The US military set off its largest nuclear explosion in testing 69 years ago, but scientists had no idea the blast would be that big
The Castle Bravo nuclear test produced an explosive yield of 15 megatons and was 1,000 times more p…
Jake Epstein
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Despite Ukrainian fears, nuclear experts say fighting near Chernobyl unlikely to cause major radiation threat
Nuclear experts said they weren't concerned about a major release of radiation at Chernobyl, the si…
Aria Bendix
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Trump attacks Jewish leaders for 'lack of loyalty' amid fallout from controversial dinner with 'deranged antisemite' Kanye West and white supremacist Nick Fuente
Donald Trump said Jewish leaders should be "ashamed" of themselves following dinner with Kanye West…
Alia Shoaib
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Unusual blood cancer cases among US troops who manned nuclear missile silos at a base in Montana are raising new questions for the military
A Space Force officer said in briefing slides obtained by the AP that "all missileers should be scr…
Jake Epstein
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Fallout from Russia's mysterious missile disaster suggests a nuclear reactor blew up
Nils Bøhmer, a Norwegian nuclear safety expert, explained to The Barents Observer that "the presenc…
Ryan Pickrell
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A huge amount of nuclear fallout is embedded in glaciers, and they're starting to melt
Scientists have analyzed 17 glacier sites and found fallout radionuclides (FRNs) trapped within ice…
David Nield
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How a US government program advocated using nuclear explosions for construction, farming radioactive crops, and blasting holes in the moon
In the 50s and 60s, the US dreamed up ways to bring nuclear tech into everyday life — like bu…
Marianne Guenot
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US military atomic cleanup crews were sent out in the wake of American nuclear testing, and many paid a heavy price, veterans say
One veteran told Insider that exposure to radioactive material could come from anywhere, like eatin…
Jake Epstein
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Russia's war has stalled a next-gen US nuclear reactor backed by Bill Gates – because it's lost its sole supplier of uranium
TerraPower has delayed a demo of its flagship nuclear reactor project in Wyoming for two years afte…
George Glover
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The Olympics Committee said it won't pause for a moment of silence for Hiroshima atomic bombing after city requests for one
Olympic athletes will not be asked to hold a moment of silence for the anniversary of the Hiroshima…