In the remote desert where China detonated its first atom bomb nearly 60 years ago, a drilling rig recently bored a deep vertical shaft that is estimated to plunge down at least a third of a mile. It is the strongest evidence yet that Beijing is weighing whether to test a new generation of nuclear arms that could increase the lethality of its rapidly expanding missile force.
A large drill rig hidden in the eastern hills of the Lop Nur
With a deadly conflict in the Middle East, Russia still waging its invasion of Ukraine and China on the brink of invading Taiwan, the world has arguably not been this close to war in a century.
But while Americans are on the other side of the globe, the US would not be safe from a nuclear war, experts warn.
Russia has an arsenal of more than 5,900 warheads capable of reaching the US in about 30 minutes. At the
Alexander Stille’s The Sullivanians documents the sordid history and fascinating intellectual roots of a psychotherapy group that proposed a utopian alternative to conventional family life.
Families walking in a New York park, 1952.
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As the dust settled on World War II, prosperity bloomed in the United States, as did a growing sense of boredom and discontent. The writer Betty Friedan
Israel’s robust military, the fourth-strongest in the world, is ravaging Gaza and, along with armed settlers, terrorizing Palestinians in the West Bank following the brutal Hamas massacres of October 7. Like so many other colonial projects, Israel was born of terror and has necessitated the use of violence to occupy Arab territory and segregate Palestinians ever since. The realization that its existence was dependent on a superior military in an unfriendly region also encouraged Israel to pursue a nuclear weapons … Read more
Once a bustling town with more than 4,500 residents and its own newspaper, Jeffrey City in Wyoming is a shadow of its former self with forlorn buildings left to rust and sprigs of grass breaking up tarmacked surfaces – but 24 residents refuse to let it go to ground completely.
The rural enclave started out as a single homestead but after uranium was discovered in the area, a mine opened in 1957 and a drove of workers from across the
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With swarms of such devices battling other swarms, the risk of catastrophic defeat will loom ever larger, making the temptation to employ nuclear weapons that much harder to resist.
A US Navy drone approaches the deck of nuclear the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush off the coast of Virginia on July 10, 2013.
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Nearly 200 powerful lasers at the National Ignition Facility in Livermore, Calif., blast a fuel pellet (illustrated), igniting nuclear fusion that can release more energy than the lasers put in.
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A powerful pulse of laser light: Step toward fusion — Science News, September 29, 1973
One spur to the development of more powerful lasers is the possibility of using them in projects seeking to gain electric power from
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La guerra nuclear regresó al ámbito de las conversaciones cotidianas y pesa en la mente del público más que en toda una generación.
No solo hablamos del gran éxito de taquilla de Oppenheimer: desde la invasión de Ucrania por parte de Rusia, las autoridades del país han proferido amenazas nucleares. Además, Rusia suspendió su participación en un tratado de control de armas nucleares con Estados Unidos. Corea del Norte ha hecho pruebas de misiles. Estados Unidos, que está modernizando
Nuclear war has returned to the realm of dinner table conversation, weighing on the minds of the public more than it has in a generation.
It’s not just “Oppenheimer’s” big haul at the box office: Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the country’s officials have made nuclear threats. Russia has also suspended its participation in a nuclear arms control treaty with the United States. North Korea has launched demonstrative missiles. The United States, which is modernizing its nuclear weapons, shot down
