Hosted on MSN

The Fallout of 2,000 Nuclear Tests Still Lingers Worldwide 80 Years Later

Even eighty years after the first nuclear bomb test, the consequences still haunt people all around the world. Radioactive fallout hasn’t just vanished; instead, it continues to affect the health of ...
New Internationalist

Nuclear flashpoints to fallout

The worlds first hydrogen bomb, codenamed 'Mike'. Nuclear weapons testing conducted by the US at Bikini and Enewtak atolls in the Pacific Ocean during 1946-1958 exposed local people to radioactive ...
HUB

Fallout: Eighty years later

Many Americans—including students in the History of the Atomic Bomb course taught at the University of Texas at Austin by Bruce J. Hunt, A&S '84 (PhD)—have learned a version of this story: On Aug. 6, ...

Here’s How Bad a Nuclear War Would Actually Be

As the video illustrates, it doesn’t matter much who starts the war: when one side launches nuclear missiles, the other side detects them and fires back before impact. Ballistic missiles from U.S.
Albuquerque Journal

Fascinating and multifaceted: 'Nuclear Family' tells the story of nuclear weapons and Los Alamos as told through one family

From Trinity’s fallout to a New Mexico school underground, “Nuclear Family” traces how the bomb reshaped one family and a ...
Washington Examiner

Trump says he wants to restart nuclear testing. Here’s what that means

President Donald Trump ordered the Department of War to resume testing nuclear weapons “on an equal basis” with Russia and China on Thursday, a practice halted by the U.S. in 1992. The announcement ...