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more about #nukes more comments → Stndsh0: To quote Robin Williams: "The French are some of the few people who still test their bombs. And where do they test them? In the Sahara, in ze total wa... more » philibuster: Is this a map of where to go in order to gain super powers by getting bitten by the local fauna? Nevada here I come! more » BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2: What I want to know is how does an underground test work? more » lpranal: The scale is not linear, but then again neither is the blast radius in a nuclear weapon. I don't know the exact numbers and I'm too lazy to look them... more » OCEntertainment: Mother of God, there's still been tests going up into 2007? Even the U.S. conducting tests on into the 90s. And that's just documented. One can only a... more » astonwood: Ed Ou is photographer extraordinaire. I'm not going to get involved in the political debate suffice to say we have enough crap now to deal with. I we... more » Pope John Peeps II: I try to smile. I try to smile and be a bit optimistic because, no matter how monstrous some men and women can be, the human spirit always seems to f... more » BloodRoze: This article made me post my first comment here, though I've been a gizmodo reader for some time now. I have noticed too (as fore written) that despi... more » Markarian: I think our generation does need a reminder every once in a while that nukes aren't just some sort of cool visual or far-fetched joke. It's really sad... more » Rex the Decadent: Last year I wanted to learn about the Chernobyl disaster, and scoured the web for everything related to the incident. There are a few photography site... more » EdgarJPublius: Who mourns the dead? We are all taught about Nagasaki, Hiroshima and Chernobyl We see there pictures everywhere, hear the cries and the condemnations.... more » En0s1: God damn JD... that's some real heavy shit. I hope and pray that one day our kids or their kids can live in a world without these kinds of horrors. I... more » etmthree: Ever see Minamata, by W. Eugene Smith? We don't learn, do we? #nucleartest more » jlcro: The principles of nuclear power and energy are just beautiful. It shows how mankind has achieved success in their search for knowledge. It's really s... more » Kung-Fu Kurtis Carnivale of Carnage: Great article and stunning imagery. Thanks for sharing this. #nucleartest more » -
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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 » -
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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]
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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 » -
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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 » -
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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 » -
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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 » -
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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 » -
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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 » -
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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 » -
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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 » -
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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 » -
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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 » -
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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 »
