When Fake Nuclear Disaster Fallout Reached Los Angeles

As the cloud cleared, Air Force bombers dropped in to gather air samples. Researchers hoped that the radioactive fallout ...

FALLOUT Reveals We Still Don’t Know Who Dropped the Bombs

Fallout season two, episode five made clear we still don't know who dropped the bombs, and that enduring mystery is more ...
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Why the world’s most powerful nuclear bomb was never meant to be used

The Soviet Union built the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated, but just before its test, engineers deliberately reduced ...
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The Fallout Factor in Targeting Iran’s Nuclear Program

On June 19, Israeli military spokesman Brigadier General Effie Defrin mistakenly stated that the Israel Defense Forces had struck Iran’s Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant. Although Israel quickly walked ...
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 80 years after the atomic bomb, the world still grapples with the fallout

Hiroshima is marking the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city. The bombing on Aug. 6, 1945, killed 140,000 people and a second bomb on Nagasaki (Aug. 9) killed ...
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First atomic bomb test conducted in N.M. 80 years ago today still affects site

Editor’s note: “Behind the News” is the product of Sun staff assisted by the Sun’s AI lab, which includes a variety of tools such as Anthropic’s Claude, Perplexity AI, Google Gemini and ChatGPT. On ...
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Fallout: Eighty years later

Many Americans—including students in the History of the Atomic Bomb course taught at the University of Texas at Austin by Bruce J. Hunt, A&S '84 (PhD)—have learned a version of this story: On Aug. 6, ...