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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 ...
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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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She lived through Nevada’s nuclear tests: A flash, eerie quiet — then a radiation cloud
He says the nuclear testing also served as a deterrent ... A July 19, 1957, entry reads: “We watched a rocket go off. It was a bomb. We saw the cloud.” The notebook sat gathering dust until ...
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Cloud over nuclear plant 'no cause for concern'
A large cloud of steam and a loud bang at a nuclear power station was "no cause for concern", the site's operator said. People in Heysham, near Morecambe, were alarmed and called Lancashire Fire ...
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Radioactive Dust From The Cold War Still Blows Around Europe
In 2022, samples from a Sahara dust storm showed that radioactivity from nuclear tests 70 years ago still drifts around ...
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The remarkable story of the world's first atomic bomb and how Oppenheimer reacted to the historic moment
The explosion vaporized the steel tower, sent a massive shockwave across the desert sand, and produced a mushroom cloud soaring ... is a video of the first nuclear bomb test: Read next ...