nuclear fallout
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Nuclear Weapons Partly Responsible for Radioactive Wild Boars, Researchers Say
You read that correctly. A team of scientists just tested wild boar meat from Southern Germany and found that radioactivity in the boars stemmed from nuclear weapons testing, rather than the Chernobyl power plant disaster of 1986. The Chernobyl disaster occurred due to a power plant meltdown in Pripyat, Ukraine, which resulted in a huge…
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The Fallout TV Show Casts Walton Goggins as Its Leading Ghoul
Although various people have been trying to make some form of live-action entertainment out of the hit Fallout video game series for years, none of these projects have even gotten far enough along to ever hire someone to star in the dang thing. Well, until today, when it was announced that Walton Goggins will be…
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Many Marshall Islands Residents Still Can’t Go Home After Nuclear Tests
In tests to determine if the northern Marshall Islands are safe for resettlement after nuclear testing nearly 70 years ago, scientists discovered that the areas are worse off than previously thought.