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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 signatures that can still be traced. The most recent example of their ...
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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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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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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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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 ...