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President Donald Trump reportedly inquired last year about dropping nuclear bombs into hurricanes to stop the storms from hitting the US.Trump denied making those claims, but Rep. Sylvia Garcia recently introduced a bill to Congress that would prohibit him from using nukes on hurricanes.According to experts, there isn't a nuclear…

Fox News Sunday anchor Chris Wallace sounded a note of caution over a host of U.S. law enforcement reform proposals, as Democrats in Congress are set to release their bill this week and the Minneapolis city council pledged on Sunday to abolish the city's police force."On the one hand, if  done bad things you…

Welcome to This Date in Aviation History, getting of you caught up on milestones, important historical events and people in aviation from June 3 through June 5.The Tu-144 parked on the tarmac at Le Bourget the day before the accident. (P.L. Thill)June 3, 1973 – The first production Tupolev Tu-144…

Loading metrics Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Elliot Rosen,  Dmitry Kryndushkin,  Baikuntha Aryal,  Yanira Gonzalez,  Leena Chehab,  Jennifer Dickey,  V. Ashutosh Rao x Published: June 4, 2020 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0233967 AbstractRadiation-induced heart disease presents a significant challenge in the event of an accidental radiation exposure as well as to cancer patients who…

Boring British MoviesGrowing up as a callow nascent film buff, lost in the candy store of VHS tapes and TV Guide, I gathered that British films were mostly dull old things. With a few exceptions, they were talky sub-Hollywood productions, at best well-acted but lacking oomph and pizzazz and élan…

The Japanese film poster for I Live in Fear (1955), directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring Toshiro Mifune. One of the first Japanese commercial features to directly address the fear of nuclear holocaust and the implications of the atom bomb, Record of a Living Being, which is better known as…

On what would otherwise be a solemn year of remembrance to mark the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the United States is shaking up the status quo in regards to nuclear weapons — and raising fears of a new arms race, this one with China.From…

The Tunguska event, a seismic blast that rocked a remote Siberian forest more than a century ago, is believed to have been caused by a meteor that exploded before it hit the ground. A new study sheds more light on the asteroid, noting it may have never actually hit Earth at…

Prior to the summer of 1941, the United States Marine Corps did not want them. The Navy barely tolerated them in restricted capacities as cooks, waiters, servants for officers, and dockside stevedores. The Army, too, thought they were only good enough to tackle menial duties and perform manual labor. On…

As both the Human League and OMD are loathe to admit, it was Gary Numan who got there first in the summer of 1979. Here he was, as leader of former punk band Tubeway Army, fronting a UK number one single driven by synthesizers. He sang it in a robotic…