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Iran’s Guard says it launched satellite amid heightened tensions with U.S. Nuclear Weapons

Iran’s Guard says it launched satellite amid heightened tensions with U.S.

Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard said on Wednesday that it launched a military satellite into orbit amid wider tensions with the United States, describing it as a successful launch after months of failures.There was no immediate independent confirmation of the launch of the satellite, which the Guard called “Noor," or light.…
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April 22, 2020
Coronavirus Has Hit the U.S. Military, and America’s Adversaries Are Taking Advantage Nuclear Weapons

Coronavirus Has Hit the U.S. Military, and America’s Adversaries Are Taking Advantage

A U.S. P-8A reconnaissance plane was soaring above the Mediterranean Sea on Wednesday when a Russian SU-35 fighter jet appeared on its tail. For 42 minutes, U.S. Navy officials say, the Russian pilot flew in an “unsafe” manner—at one-point flying upside down and sweeping within 25 feet of the plane’s…
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April 16, 2020
China may have conducted low-level nuclear test blasts, U.S. says Nuclear Weapons

China may have conducted low-level nuclear test blasts, U.S. says

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China may have secretly set off low-level underground nuclear test explosions despite claiming to observe an international pact banning such blasts, the U.S. State Department said in a report on Wednesday that could fuel U.S.-Chinese tensions. The finding, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, may worsen…
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April 15, 2020
Neutrinos could shed light on why the Universe has so much more matter than antimatter Nuclear Weapons

Neutrinos could shed light on why the Universe has so much more matter than antimatter

Inside the Super-Kamiokande neutrino detector during work on the detectors.Credit: Kamioka Observatory, ICRR, Univ. Tokyo Nuclear-weapons physicists Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines considered the neutrino “the smallest bit of material reality ever conceived of by man” .That was in a commentary1 for Nature in 1956, published a few months after…
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April 15, 2020