Nukes

North Korea continued developing its nuclear and ballistic missile programs during the first half of 2021 in violation of international sanctions and despite the country's worsening economic situation, according to an excerpt of a confidential UN report seen Friday by Reuters. The report by a panel of independent sanctions monitors…

By MICHELLE NICHOLS, Reuters Published August 7, 2021 3:42am UNITED NATIONS - North Korea continued developing its nuclear and ballistic missile programs during the first half of 2021 in violation of international sanctions and despite the country's worsening economic situation, according to an excerpt of a confidential United Nations report…

The Olympics are supposed to be a tangible symbol of global cooperation and peaceful competition. But the games carry a lot of baggage—not only from the pandemic but also from the Fukushima disaster and Japan’s nuclear politics. As Covid cases spread in the Olympic Village and in Tokyo, protesters continue…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s supreme leader on Wednesday called the U.S. “stubborn” in stalled nuclear talks in Vienna for discussing Tehran’s missiles and regional influence, likely signaling more trouble ahead for the negotiations. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s remarks come as his hard-line protege, President-elect Ebrahim Raisi, is poised…

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World 28 Jul, 2021 12:19 AM3 minutes to read The sites were found deep in the Gobi desert. Photo / Planet Labs China is building a second new nuclear missile base capable of holding dozens of intercontinental ballistic missiles, satellite images appear to show. The vast site, spread over 770sq…

HONG KONG—Satellite imagery appeared to show China building a new network of silos for launching nuclear missiles, a U.S. think tank said, the second such project that American analysts have accused Beijing of advancing in recent weeks. In a report released Monday, a pair of researchers at the Federation of…

Home News The Baker Day explosion at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, as recorded by an automatically operated camera on a nearby island. Notice the mushroom cloud forming immediately after the explosion. (Image credit: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)When a bomb goes off, energy is shot out indiscriminately in all directions.…

The nuclear age began bright and early at 5:30 a.m. on July 16, 1945, when the United States government detonated a plutonium-powered implosion device (nicknamed “Gadget”) over the New Mexico desert. In a fraction of a second, the explosion released the equivalent of 21,000 tons of TNT — enough to vaporize the surrounding infrastructure and sweep desert sand into a hot, pressurized fireball that spit out trinitite glass.  The vast majority of the glass was a pale green color, thanks to a…

ScienceThe results from the 1962 Starfish Prime test serve as a warning of what might happen if Earth’s magnetic field gets blasted again with high doses of radiation. ByBrian Gutierrez Published July 15, 2021 • 9 min read It was pitch black when Greg Spriggs’ father brought his family to…