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I am also shocked that how powerful the Tsar Bomba is. It is horrible, horrible! If it was dropped in abig city, nobody could survive. Not one! We must do anything to prevent a nuclear war in the future. Have you ever wondered, what if anuclear bombhits your own city? In an age...
The Bombs Work - Now What? India and Pakistan Are Caught in an Escalating Nuclear Rivalry - Full of Emotion and Weak on Stable Command and ControlLast month's nuclear bomb tests by India and Pakistan have, ironically, failed to make either nation feel any more secure.John Zubrzycki, Monitor...
The United States has an atomic waste problem. Nuclear power is a viable source of energy, but radioactive waste is piling up across the nation, with nowhere to go.
President John Fitzgerald Kennedy warned the Soviet Union that if they launched missiles from Cuba against any country, the U.S would be forced to use nuclear weapons on Russia. The issue was resolved when Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev called for the removal of the Soviet missiles from Cuba....
Today guns fit differently in American culture: American civilians do own military-style firearms and use guns in crimes of passion, especially domestic violence. We use them in mass shootings. The most formidable firearm in 1791, a muzzle-loading single-shot firearm, is incomparable in use and...
At the same time, Paul Callaghan was about to publish his book on the Principles of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Microscopy [49]. Winfried and I were both excited about the emerging possibilities of using field gradients in magnetic resonance, and over a glass of beer or two, we decided to ...
For example, the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II were in the kiloton range, whereas later Cold War-era nuclear tests often reached into the megaton range. 10 Understanding the distinction between megaton and kiloton is crucial in the fields of nuclear physics...
Continuing the fallout of the Columbian Exchange, anthropogenic geological markers have become more frequent: layers of plastics, layers of chicken bones, the sixth mass extinction, radiation from nuclear bombs testing, CO2 spikes from burning fossil fuels, methane spikes from fossil fuels and corporate...