MIT Technology Review13d
MIT prepares for nuclear attack
In the early 1960s, the Institute grappled with going beyond “Duck and Cover.” The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in ...
The Time We Asked Carl Sagan to Nuke the Moon
Could you see a nuclear explosion on the moon with the naked eye? That was the question posed by the United States military ...
These weapons could cause total destruction if World War III…, everything will be destroyed if…
War has never been good for anyone. It brings massive destruction, affecting several countries in countless ways. World War I ...
Under a desk, preparing for the worst
A reader responds to a story about today's school shooter drills with a recollection of drills in the late 1950s to prepare ...
The New York Times27d
High Above Chernobyl, Workers Grapple With Ice, Fire and Nuclear Fears
Image Emergency workers gather near the confinement structure, where the hole from an explosion is visible, at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on Friday. At the plant itself, an unfinished ...
Aviation Week13d
From The Archives: B-52 Nuclear Blast Test
Energy wave created by high-altitude nuclear explosion radiates hundreds of miles in all directions and Trestle will simulate this by two 5-million-volt pulsers discharging energy into ...
Metro25d
Nuclear expert issues Chernobyl update after it emerges fires are still burning
The plant was hit on Friday by a drone carrying a high-explosive warhead, according to Ukraine, 38 years after the nuclear explosion at the site. Russia’s ‘nuclear blackmail’ will spike ...
Chernobyl radiation shield hit by Russian drone, Ukraine says
A Russian drone has hit the protective shelter over Chernobyl's damaged nuclear reactor, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. The overnight strike at the site of the world's worst nuclear ...