Opinion: Whether it’s natural or nuclear destruction, America must be prepared
Suppose a relatively small nuclear weapon had exploded over central Florida. It would have made the damage of the two ...
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US Produces First Plutonium Pit For Nuclear Weapons Since 1989
During the Cold War, the US produced hundreds of plutonium pits each year at the Rocky Flats Plant in Colorado. However, ...
The alarming numbers behind North Korea’s growing nuclear arsenal
The country is likely in possession of 80 to 90 nuclear warheads of uranium and plutonium, and this number is likely to rise ...
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Yankee-Class: The CIA Tried to Recover 1 Of Russia's Sunken Missile Submarines
The Yankee-class submarines were the first Soviet nuclear-powered ballistic missile subs capable of launching thermonuclear ...
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How China used a ‘paper tiger’ to emerge as a nuclear weapon superpower
The test gave China the capability of delivering a nuclear bomb by missile instead of by aircraft. On June 17 the following year at Lop Nur, China tested its first thermonuclear device – a ...
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North Korea Poised to Expand Nuclear Arsenal, Doubling Stockpile, Says Report
North Korea has accumulated enough weapons-grade nuclear material to more than double its current atomic weapons stockpile, a ...
Memorials for Britain's nuclear test veterans
Veterans who took part in Britain’s nuclear testing programme during the 1950s and 60s are being honoured by a new memorial.
Nuclear artificial sun megaproject grows with Russian involvement
More than 30 countries are jointly developing the experimental reactor Russian energy giant Rosatom is extending its ...
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Opinion - Whether it’s natural or nuclear destruction, America must be prepared
With the damage wrought by these two hurricanes very much in mind, appreciating the power of fission (nuclear) and fusion (thermonuclear weapons) is important given Iran’s activities and China ...