(CN) – A chance encounter in 2013 between a professor and a small cube of uranium kickstarted a new look into the scientific goals of World War …
Cold War exhibition tries to airbrush Britain’s dark history of nuclear testing
Protect and Survive: Britain’s Cold War Revealed seeks to tell the story of how the years of high nuclear tensions affected the UK, from spy paranoia to …
GOP Rep. says Russia has nuclear weapons in Venezuela but offers no evidence
“The United States, the closest we ever came to nuclear war was because the Russians put missiles — right — nuclear missiles in Cuba,” Díaz-Balart …
Particles From Cold War Nuclear Bomb Tests Found in Deepest Parts of the Ocean
No place on Earth is free from human influence—not even the bottom of the deepest trenches in the ocean. Shrimp-like critters from three West Pacific …
“Hitler’s Lost Uranium” –The Search for WW II Nazi Uranium Cubes
… Engineering, describe what they’ve discovered while exploring the German quest and failure to build a working nuclear reactor during World War II.
Why the Crisis in Venezuela Should Worry Every American
… revolution, nurtured barbarous dictators and violent revolutionaries, and welcomed as a military ally by the Soviets, nearly triggering a nuclear war.
Why the Korean War Still Matters
It was the start of a war that has still not ended, nearly seven decades later. … It also helped drive the creation of a vast U.S. nuclear arsenal to deter …
Trump consigning Russia-PLO collusion to dustbin of history
… realization: A conventional military confrontation with Israel, and by extension the West, carried too great a risk of escalating into nuclear war.
Tornado Sirens Weren’t Originally Meant For Tornadoes
During the cold war in the 1950s, sirens were used to warn of a nuclear attack. This was a part of the Civil Defense Act set into motion by President …
A photographer visited the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone more than 20 times over the past 25 years …
On April 26, 1986, an explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, … United States and the Soviet Union posed potential threats of nuclear war.