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    Our Century of Fallout: Every Nuclear Detonation, Mapped

    Everyone's got a notion of how the last century went, in terms of nuclear explosions. There was Hiroshima, then Nagasaki. There were some nuclear tests out in the desert, and the ocean. But would you believe there've been over 2000? More »
    12/08/09
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    By John Herrman
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    The True, Heartbreaking Faces of the Nuclear Era

    Sometimes I write about high-tech weapons. There's something fascinating about the technological terror that humans have been developing to obliterate each other for centuries, so it's easy to forget about the real consequences of this mad race. [EXPLICIT IMAGES AHEAD] More »
    11/09/09
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    By Jesus Diaz
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    Dirty Bomb Emergency Kit Appeals to the Paranoid in Me

    When I was a kid I saw The Day After, which left me having nightmares about nuclear bombs exploding in the horizon, and looting supermarkets for chocolate bars. Maybe that's why I'm itching to buy this dirty bomb emergency kit. More »
    09/26/09
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    By Jesus Diaz
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    How a Soviet Doomsday Master Missile Looks and Works

    Yesterday we learnt that the Soviets still have a working doomsday system in place. This is an SS-17 ICBM master missile, which are launched first. Once they are in the skies, they activate the launch for all the Russian nukes. More »
    09/25/09
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    By Jesus Diaz
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    Get Nervous: Rusty Soviet Doomsday System Still Turned On

    Wired Magazine has a fascinating article on the doomsday system that was built by the Soviets 25 years ago. It was designed to obliterate the US no matter what happened to the USSR—and it still works today. Shiver. More »
    09/23/09
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    By Jesus Diaz
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    How Many Nukes Will It Really Take to Instantly Annihilate Humanity?

    Forget about nuclear winter. Humans are resilient. We will survive. So how many nukes will it take to destroy every single human being in the planet, on first blast? Here's the calculation in graphic form—with a surprising answer: More »
    08/29/09
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    By Jesus Diaz
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    What's the Fallout if North Korea Nukes Hawaii?

    North Korea's aiming their test missile near Hawaii. The US military says they can protect the islands, and locals aren't too worried, but if something happens, the thermal, shockwave and radioactive fallout will look something like this. More »
    07/03/09
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    By Brian Lam
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    More Analysis on the Korean Rocket Launch

    Really interested in what kind of nuclear rocket capability North Korea has? The Bulletin does a really in-depth analysis of the latest launch, based on released and carefully reasoned interpolated data. More »
    06/30/09
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    By Jason Chen
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    93-Year-Old Japanese Man Certified as Double A-Bomb Victim

    You have some lousy luck if you're near the site of an A-bomb strike. You have really, really bad luck if, three days later, you get hit with another nuke. More »
    03/24/09
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    By Adam Frucci
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    Nuclear Slide Rules: The Old Fashioned Way To Calculate Armageddon

    In an age when nukes existed but pocket calculators did not, the potential damage of a nuclear strike could be quantified using cardboard slide rules like this one. More »
    12/16/08
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    By Sean Fallon
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    How Each Nuclear-Capable Country Got Its Bombs, Visualized

    As the NY Times point out in their review of two upcoming histories of The Bomb, Robbert Oppenheimer originally assumed that little could stop anyone from developing nuclear weapons. Thankfully, he was wrong. More »
    12/10/08
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    By John Mahoney
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    Navy Drops $7.5 Million on an EMP Generator

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    Apollo Astronaut Claims Asteroid-Nuking Missile Program Is Front For Weaponizing Space

    07/27/08
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    After Losing Nukes, Air Base Fails Inspection: Security Caught Playing Games On Cellphones

    After losing track of six nuclear warheads last year, you would think that the crack security team at Minot Air Force Base would pull it together for their much anticipated nuclear security inspection. Unfortunately, you would be mistaken. Inspectors from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency failed the security wing based on a number of infractions—including an incident where an airmen was observed playing video games on his cellphone while standing guard at a "restricted area perimeter" during a simulated attack. More »
    05/30/08
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    By Sean Fallon
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    Russian Scientist Proposes Domed Cities to Protect from Nukes

    Russian scientist Alexander Bolonkin has a way to protect our cities from nuclear attacks: just slap a gigantic dome over it. Of course! As an added bonus, we'll also protect ourselves from inclement weather and the annoying tourists that airplanes bring with them when they land. When can construction start?? More »
    04/15/08
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