Sidetrack Adventures on MSN

This nuclear bomb was detonated under the Nevada desert - on purpose

In 1963, the U.S. detonated a nuclear bomb deep beneath the Nevada desert. Project Shoal was designed to test what a nuclear ...
Interesting Engineering

Japan’s atomic bomb blast victim identified after 8 decades with DNA analysis

Researchers have used DNA from strands of hair to identify a teenage victim of the Hiroshima atomic bombing nearly 80 years ...
Money Talks News on MSN

Nuclear bomb survival distance revealed in new scientific analysis

New scientific modeling reveals the shocking distances needed to survive a nuclear bomb explosion and its devastating effects ...
The Tab

Petrifying ‘Nuke Map’ allows you to actually see if you’d survive a nuclear blast near you

A pretty scary map website allows you to really see what would happen if a nuclear blast was to take place near you. In ...
The Nation on MSNOpinion

Have We Normalized Nuclear War?

If anything, the widespread lack of comprehension (and so protest) is one big reason nuclear war remains so chillingly ...
Albuquerque Journal

'The cross I've carried': Nagasaki atomic bomb survivors share experiences in New Mexico

On Aug. 9, 1945, 6-year-old Chiyoko Motomura was playing on a veranda at her family’s Nagasaki, Japan, home. Her mother, aunt ...
DatacenterDynamics

Inside the data center built to withstand a nuclear blast

To protect its radar operators from the impact of a nuclear blast, the MoD ensured staff at ROTOR facilities were housed in ...

Russia and the US threatened to resume nuclear testing after several decades. Here is why it matters

VIENNA (AP) — The United States and Russia have both recently threatened to resume nuclear testing, alarming the international community and jeopardizing a global norm against such tests. Experts say ...
The Manhattan Mercury

Would you launch a bid for this ‘atomic bomb’ being auctioned off?

An atomic bomb is up for auction. An original 1945 training version of the devastating weapon "Little Boy" is going under the ...

'Blast When Putin Arrives': Ajmer Dargah in Rajasthan Receives Bomb Threat; Warns of RDX, IEDs Presence

Security agencies were thrown into a frenzy after receiving a bomb threat targeting the Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti Dargah in ...
The New Yorker

Going Nuclear Without Blowing Up

There are now about four hundred nuclear power plants worldwide, in over thirty countries on five continents, with sixty more ...

Russia and the US threatened to resume nuclear testing after several decades

The U.S. and Russia have both recently threatened to resume nuclear testing, alarming the international community and jeopardizing a global norm against such tests.