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Have We Normalized Nuclear War?

If anything, the widespread lack of comprehension (and so protest) is one big reason nuclear war remains so chillingly ...
The first B-52 is now carrying out testing with the APQ-188 AESA systems as part of the B-52 Radar Modernization Program.
During the Apollo program, astronauts trained in some unexpected places including nuclear bomb craters. These sites offered ...
When it came to fodder for pop and rock broadsides, Vietnam had a high profile, but broader-ranging Cold War anxieties had wormed their way into rock 'n' roll years before most songwriters had heard ...
Thorium has long been described as the nuclear fuel that could have changed everything. It’s more abundant than uranium, ...
The U.S. president can order a nuclear launch without consulting anyone, including Congress, and U.S. nuclear weapons have ...
Today, most of the men involved are elderly or no longer alive. The missing nuclear device remains buried somewhere in the ...
In 2024, during a spring break training trip with the rowing team at " Camp Bob ," Tran—an interdisciplinary scholar of ...
A New York Times investigation revisits a covert CIA operation that left a plutonium-powered surveillance device lost on Nanda Devi in 1965, a Cold War secret that continues to raise fears of ...
Troops carried out multiple mock hydrogen bomb drills in the early 1970s, potentially for use against the Soviet Union or ...
The United States and the Soviet Union signed numerous arms control treaties to limit the scope, danger, and expense of their ...
A lost nuclear device in the Himalayas, filled with plutonium from a secret 1965 CIA-India mission to spy on China, ...