Nukes

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Updated : , ,   TOKYO (AP) — Nagasaki marked the 78th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city Wednesday with the mayor urging world powers to abolish nuclear weapons, saying nuclear deterrence also increases risks of nuclear war. Shiro Suzuki made the remark after the…

Christopher Nolan’s new movie Oppenheimer, eponymously named after the creator of the atomic bomb, has renewed public interest in America’s dark history with nuclear weapons. Nolan’s movie focuses primarily on the “Trinity” test—the first test of a nuclear bomb to occur in the U.S. But for years after Trinity, the…

Skip to main content Fox News flew into spin mode as the former president was handed a historic third criminal indictment Host Jesse Watters on 'Jesse Watters Primetime' on July 17, 2023 in New York City. Roy Rochlin/Getty Images On Tuesday, minutes after Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that…

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at The Conversation. “Oppenheimer,” the epic new movie directed by Christopher Nolan, takes audiences into the mind and moral decisions of J. Robert Oppenheimer, leader of the team of brilliant scientists in…

Thanks to decades of government secrecy, few people know about the day the Bay Area narrowly avoided a nuclear disaster. ...Read More

Back to homepage / Asia / Pacific Japan said Friday that North Korea posed a more serious threat to its national security than "ever before", as nuclear-armed Pyongyang rattles its neighbours with repeated missile tests and belligerent rhetoric. Issued on: 28/07/2023 - 04:39 2 min A view of tanks displayed…

Veterans exposed to the effects of nuclear bombs during UK's testing in the 1960s will receive a medal to wear on Remembrance SundayBetween 1,500 and 2,000 eligible people are thought to be alive todayBy James Callery Published: 00:05 BST, 28 July 2023 | Updated: 00:08 BST, 28 July 2023 Veterans…

The delayed and long-awaited nuclear test medal is finally in production, 70 years after Britain's first atomic bomb The final design for the nuclear veterans' medal, which is now in productionThis is the medal more than 1,000 veterans hope they will finally be able to wear on Remembrance Sunday. After…

Floy Agnes Lee, known as Aggie, was a hematology technician at Los Alamos, N.M., in 1945. Recruited to the Manhattan Project straight out of college, she collected blood samples from many Manhattan Project scientists, including the renowned physicist Enrico Fermi. Years after the war, she returned to Los Alamos National…

Plutonium-239 rained down from the atmosphere and settled in sediments across the planet. (Image credit: Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images)Nuclear weapons testing in the 1950s and early 1960s left the first obvious and indelible marks of "overwhelming" human activity on Earth, and these events may signal the beginning of a new geological…