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Chernobyl creator Craig Mazin is calling on tourists headed to the infamous disaster zone to remember that they are visiting the site of a tragedy. “It’s wonderful that #ChernobylHBO has inspired a wave of tourism to the Zone of Exclusion. But yes, I’ve seen…

Marines conduct an island seizure exercise in Tinian, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in 2016. (U.S. Navy Combat Camera photo / Benjamin A. Lewis) Thank you for signing up. For more from The Nation, check out our latest issue. Thank you for sig…

If you ever clean out the gutters on your roof, take note: The dirt you’re tossing may have come from outer space. The new book “Cosmic Impact: Understanding the Threat to Earth from Asteroids and Comets,” by Andrew May (Icon Books), gives an overview of the…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe landed Wednesday in Tehran on a mission to ease tensions between the U.S. and Iran, just hours after Iranian-backed rebels in Yemen launched an attack on an airport in Saudi Arabia, wounding 26 people. Abe…

If you ever clean out the gutters on your roof, take note: The dirt youre tossing may have come from outer space. The new book Cosmic Impact: Understanding the Threat to Earth from Asteroids and Comets, by Andrew May (Icon Books), gives an overview of the po…

Yamato and its task force, designated the Surface Special Attack Force, departed Tokuyama, Japan on April 6, proceeding due south to transit the Bungo Strait. American forces had already been alerted to the Ten-Go operation, thanks to cracked Japanese militar…

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: HBO’s new miniseries, “Chernobyl,” recounts the 1986 nuclear disaster in Ukraine. It’s a dramatization, so while many events depicted in the show are based in reality, it had a few discrepancies with historic…

I really enjoyed the HBO miniseries “Chernobyl” that aired/streamed recently. You can watch it all now through HBO if you have access (or you can get an HBO free trial through Amazon). One of my favorite and most meaningful quotes from Don Wheeler (as I've s…

AN AERIAL view of part of Tacloban City, taken three days after Supertyphoon Yolanda (international name: Haiyan) struck, shows a scale of devastation comparable with that caused by the explosion of the worlds first atomic bomb in Hiroshima with entire commun…

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