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Strange animal-nuclear tales

How do animals such as elephants, mosquitos, and chickens view nuclear technologies? In these strange-but-true tales, you’ll encounter crocodiles who warm themselves in water surrounding nuclear power plants, polar bears that boarded a nuclear submarine, and even lizards accused of serving as nuclear spies.

What you should know about North Korea and their nuclear weapons threats

Teen Vogue may not be the first place one ordinarily thinks of when it comes to articles on topics like North Korea and its nuclear weapons. That is changing.
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Playing at nuclear war

Just in time for holiday shopping comes nuclear virtual reality, in the form of video games, documentaries, emergency simulations, and so-called disaster tourism.
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament protest in London, 1983

How to avoid nuclear war with China

There is a significant probability a war between China and the United States could escalate to nuclear threats. It is urgent that the two countries launch talks on nuclear arms control, both to prevent a nuclear arms race and to reassure each other that both want to avoid a nuclear conflict.

Russia’s “dirty bomb” disinformation, annotated

Russian spokesmen continue to press the narrative that Ukraine plans to use a dirty bomb to frame Russia. A close look at Russia's letter to the UN Security Council helps debunk those claims.
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“He did not speak the ordinary language”: Memories of Oppie, from a Manhattan Project physicist

One of the last surviving eyewitnesses from the effort to build the first atomic bomb gives his impressions of the Manhattan Project’s driving force: J. Robert Oppenheimer.