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The true scale of nuclear weapons

Nuclear weapons have shaped global politics for decades, but their destructive power is almost impossible to comprehend. From ...

Cornered and wounded, will Iran now go for a nuclear bomb?

When Iran’s covert nuclear program came to international attention over two decades ago, Tehran insisted that its intentions ...
The New Yorker

Why Don’t We Take Nuclear Weapons Seriously?

In “Preventing Nuclear War,” an essay published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, in 1981, the Harvard law professor Roger Fisher imagines a President in the White House, discussing nuclear ...
CNN

More than 2,000 nuclear weapons have been detonated in the past 80 years. Their effects still linger around the world

Growing up in Salt Lake City, Utah, in the 1950s and 60s, Mary Dickson was among the millions of American schoolchildren taught to “duck and cover” in the event of a nuclear war. “I just remember ...
NBC Washington

Which countries have nuclear weapons and how are they tested? What to know

President Donald Trump's comments Thursday suggesting the United States will restart its testing of nuclear weapons upends decades of American policy in regards to the bomb, but come as Washington's ...
The New York Times

Testing America’s Nuclear Bombs: What to Know

Though the country’s nuclear arsenal has undergone no explosive testing for decades, federal experts say it can reliably obliterate targets halfway around the globe. By William J. Broad President ...
SlashGear

Who Has Nearly 90% Of The World's Nuclear Weapons?

Several military technological innovations have changed the course of history. From the sailing ship to the stirrup, these advances have pushed the world into new directions, and chief among them is ...