Russia vetoes UN resolution against nuclear space race
By Edith M. Lederer | Associated Press UNITED NATIONS — Russia on Wednesday vetoed a U.N. resolution sponsored by the United States and Japan calling on all nations to prevent …
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The US Buried Nuclear Waste Abroad. Climate Change Could Unearth It
This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Ariana Tibon was in college at the University of Hawaii in 2017 when she saw the …
‘Doomsday Clock’ kept as close to midnight as ever: Humanity on the brink amid nuclear, AI threat
NEW DELHI: The “Doomsday Clock,” a symbolic representation of humanity‘s proximity to global catastrophe, remains steadfast at a perilous 90 seconds to midnight, echoing the grave existential threats that loom …
Read Sir Michael Caine’s thrilling debut novel first | Books | Entertainment
rewrite this content and keep HTML tags Michael Caine’s new novel (Image: Getty/Hodder & Stoughton)When Dave looked back and remembered seeing the box for the first time, he could have …
Radiation Is Everywhere. But It’s Not All Bad
For many of the sources you encounter in everyday life, the amount of radiation is so low that you don’t need to worry about it. But ionizing radiation can also …
Turtles Carry Signs of Humanity’s Nuclear History in Their Shells
On a spring day in 1978, a fisherman caught a tiger shark in the lagoon surrounding Enewetak Atoll, part of the Marshall Islands in the north Pacific. That shark, along …
Leading Theory of the Nucleus Under Scrutiny as New Experiment Emerges
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. A new measurement of the strong nuclear force, which binds protons and neutrons together, confirms previous hints of an uncomfortable …
Fukushima’s Contaminated Water to be Discharged into the Ocean, Plans Reveal | WIRED
For a final point of comparison, Smith calculates that cosmic rays interacting with the Earth’s atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean annually cause the natural deposition of 2,000 times more tritium …