Nukes

© Library of Congress/Library of Congress A mushroom cloud with ships below during the U.S. Operation Crossroads nuclear weapons test on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands in July 1946. On May 2… Read More

Post-war model of "Little Boy," the atomic bomb that was dropped over Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6,... 1945. U.S. Department of Defense About 141 pounds of highly enriched uranium-235 was used to create "Little Boy," the first nuclear-fission bomb used in warfare. At 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, the…

A 9th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron B-1B Lancer trains Japan, where it trained with the Japan Air Self Defense Force, May 12, 2020. US Air Force/Senior Airman River Bruce The Air Force has said it wants to start retiring the B-1B Lancer bomber, a workhorse aircraft that has played a major…

Call me paranoid privacy conscious, but I don’t relish the thought of being present in too many government databases. This is especially so given the exorbitant levels of nation-state cyber activity and historically poor U.S. government data protection track records (I am looking at you, OPM). Alas, extensive public services…

Kim Jong Un's recent disappearance from public view fueled speculation over the state of his health.While the reason for Kim's disappearance remains unconfirmed, the reports about his rumored ill health raised questions about who would succeed him as the leader of North Korea.Kim Jong Un has a complicated family tree,…

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan is complying with international sanctions against North Korea, a senior Taiwanese security official told the United States' deputy representative for North Korea on Tuesday, having previously been called out for breaking them.Taiwan, claimed by China as its own, is not a member of the United Nations,…

Abdul Qadeer Khan, who made international headlines in 2004 after publicly confessing his role in global nuclear proliferation, has petitioned Pakistan's top court to say he is being "kept prisoner" by government agencies and not allowed to plead his case for freedom of movement. Khan, widely described as the architect…

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Nuclear bomb tests during the Cold War may have changed rainfall patterns thousands of miles from the detonation sites, new research has revealed. Scientists at the University of Reading have researched how the electric charge released by radiation from the test detonations, carried out predominantly by the US and Soviet…

Sinan Saglam / EyeEmGetty Images Scientists developed a new camera that can take a whopping 70 trillion frames per second. One of the inventors calls the new process compressed ultrafast spectral photography, or CUSP.The study appears in the April 29 edition of Nature Communications.For as much as cameras allow us…