What's The Difference Between A Nuclear Reactor And Nuclear Weapon?

Nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons serve wildly different purposes, but the there's a lot more that separates them than ...
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Atomic veterans explain what a nuclear bomb explosion feels like

Ahead of the International Day against Nuclear Tests on August 29 2018, we met up with British atomic veterans who were ...
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World's first nuclear explosion forged an 'impossible' crystal that's like nothing else on Earth

At 5:29am on July 16, 1945, humanity entered a dangerous new era as the world's very first nuclear explosion blossomed over New Mexico. As the blast, known as the Trinity nuclear test, vaporised the ...

In 1971, three nuclear blasts created a lake in Russia: The Soviet Union's forgotten plan to reverse Siberia rivers

A remote artificial lake in northern Russia stands as one of the last visible reminders of an ambitious Soviet project that ...
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‘Earth in flames,’ Brian Toon and Alan Robock on whether humans will die from an asteroid or nuclear war first

Editor’s note: This is part of the “Nuclear winter: Why study it now?” series. Earth scientists Brian Toon and Alan Robock discuss their latest book on nuclear winter, “Earth in Flames” (Oxford ...

Explosions reported near Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant after fresh US strikes; officials say facility unharmed

Explosions were reported near Iran's only civilian nuclear power plant in Bushehr hours after fresh US strikes. Iranian officials said the facility was not damaged despite initial concerns.

How India's 1974 nuclear test rewrote the rules on nuclear waste — and still haunts US policy

More than 50 years after Operation Smiling Buddha, the lesson remains embedded in international nuclear policy: in the ...
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The World's First Nuclear Explosion Forged an 'Impossible' Crystal

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The only well-exposed color image of the Trinity test. (Jack W. Aeby/Manhattan Project/Public Domain) We don't always get to ...