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WASHINGTON -- Veterans who were exposed to radiation in the military between 1945 and 1992 are eligible to apply for the newly created Atomic Veterans Service Certificate signed by Acting Defense Secretary Patrick M. Shanahan. Application for the certificate…

Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin No, the radiation from Chernobyl didn't hurt your baby. HBO Since the start of HBOs mini-series about the 1986 nuclear disaster, Chernobyl, journalists have praised the series for getting the facts of …

From Syria to Yemen in the Middle East, Libya to Somalia in Africa, Afghanistan to Pakistan in South Asia, an American aerial curtain has descended across a huge swath of the planet. Its stated purpose: combatting terrorism. Its primary method: constant surve…

Tourists are currently flocking to Chernobyl - the infamous nuclear accident site in northern Ukraine - as the acclaimed new Sky TV show drives a tourism boom. One Chernobyl tour agency is reporting a 40 per cent rise in trip bookings since the HBO series be…

The most frightening scene in Chernobyl, HBO and Sky UKs five-part dramatisation of the most catastrophic nuclear accident in human history, comes in episode four, when Soviet conscripts are commanded to hurl lumps of radioactive graphite back into the plants…

( Tomdispatch.com ) – From Syria to Yemen in the Middle East, Libya to Somalia in Africa, Afghanistan to Pakistan in South Asia, an American aerial curtain has descended across a huge swath of the planet. Its stated purpose: combatting terrorism. Its primary …

Retelling the 1986 Chernobyl disaster is an exercise in unburying the truth. In the wake of the world's worst nuclear power plant accident, which forced the city of Pripyat in what was then part of the Soviet Union to evacuate after being exposed to toxic le…

From Syria to Yemen in the Middle East, Libya to Somalia in Africa, Afghanistan to Pakistan in South Asia, an American aerial curtain has descended across a huge swath of the planet. Its stated purpose: combatting terrorism. Its primary method: constant surve…

An updated estimate shows the September 2017 nuclear test by North Korea was equivalent to 250 kilotons of TNTan explosive yield 16 times greater than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima during the Second World War. The explosion was also an order of magnitude stro…

From Syria to Yemen in the Middle East, Libya to Somalia in Africa, Afghanistan to Pakistan in South Asia, an American aerial curtain has descended across a huge swath of the planet. Its stated purpose: combatting terrorism. Its primary method: constant surve…