Reports that North Korea has launched a fourth nuclear weapons test – backed by convincing seismic data – have caused widespread alarm. North Korean officials announced in advance that the test would involve "a totally ...
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Jan 7, 2016
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Japan will send a huge cache of plutonium—enough to produce 50 nuclear bombs—to the United States as part of a deal to return the material that was used for research, reports and officials said Tuesday.
Energy & Green Tech
Jan 5, 2016
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More than 70 years ago scientists working in secret created the atomic bomb that ended World War II and ushered the world into the nuclear age.
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Nov 10, 2015
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As we observe the 70th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it may seem like the threat from nuclear weapons has receded. But it hasn't; the threat is actually increasing steadily. This is difficult to face ...
Environment
Aug 10, 2015
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Sandia National Laboratories is preserving the history of nuclear weapons in hardware developed since the start of the nuclear era as a way to connect new generations of weapons engineers to the engineering work of past generations.
Engineering
Jul 31, 2015
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In the early days of his first term, US president Barack Obama gave a speech in Prague in which he called for a world without nuclear weapons. His argument was based on a risk assessment:
Energy & Green Tech
Jul 22, 2015
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Seventy years ago at a remote site in New Mexico, the first test of a nuclear bomb was detonated, producing a massive explosion. The test, which presaged the atomic bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, Japan in August ...
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Jul 16, 2015
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In just a few short weeks, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will make its historic flyby of Pluto and its moons. Solar panels are unable to operate in the dim nether regions of the outer solar system, and instead, New Horizons ...
Space Exploration
Jun 26, 2015
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The largest U.S. national security research and development laboratory announced Monday that for the first time a woman has been selected to run its operations.
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Jun 22, 2015
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Within the next two weeks, or soon after, the United States and five world powers hope to finalize a nuclear deal with Iran to limit its nuclear activities in exchange for a relaxing of international economic and financial ...
Social Sciences
Jun 18, 2015
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