How an asteroid caused an explosion 1,000 times more powerful than Hiroshima
While its discovery involved more than one fumbling astronomer, the asteroid 2024 Y24 has been in the headlines for its high ...
Video Shows Explosion at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant
Ukraine said that a Russian drone had hit a shelter constructed to prevent radiation leaks at the site’s Reactor No. 4. The Kremlin denied the accusation.
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Not Even A Nuclear Blast Could Stop One 290 Million-Year-Old Tree Species
The destruction wrought on Japan by the atomic bomb in 1945 can't be understated. Yet, these trees somehow survived to become ...
Man survived the two worst atomic bombs in history just days apart that killed almost 250,000 people
Towards the end of the Second World War, US President Harry Truman thought to speed up Japan ’s surrender by dropping two ...
What Happens If Asteroid 2024 YR4 Strikes Earth — And Why We Can’t ‘Nuke’ It
An asteroid between about 130 and 300 ft. (40 and 90 meters) in diameter has been given a 2.3% chance of it hitting Earth on ...
A brief history of missing US nuclear weapons
Only one (or possibly two) of the missing bombs was fully assembled at the time it was lost. The total number of confirmed ...
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A Whole Lot of Nuclear Madness in One Week
Remember that 1963 comedic caper movie, “It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World”? Okay, maybe not. It was director Stanley Kramer’s ...
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WW3 edges closer as US restarts nuke testing program after 33 years
Before the 1960s, the military would actually test nuclear explosions above ground, in deserts and at ... that scientists still ensure these bombs are safe and reliable. To do this, researchers ...
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Yoshiro Yamawaki recalls the end of the world when atomic bomb was dropped in Nagasaki
Only two atomic bombs have ever been dropped in the history ... Yamawaki and his brother were only 2.2 kilometres away from ground zero, but they miraculously survived the scorching temperatures ...