nukes
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10 Of The Craziest Nuclear Bomb Explosions In Movie History
There have been over 2000 nuclear explosions in real life, but if we believe the movies, it seems like every other action movie drops one in for added colour. And I totally get it. I hope to never see a nuclear bomb go off in person but I wouldn’t mind seeing more explosive mushroom cloud…
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What Would Happen If The 20 Biggest US Cities Were Wiped Out With Nukes
Wiping out an American city, much less the largest ones, requires either blast yields well beyond the capability of any terrorist organisation, or numbers of nuclear weapons that would make the terrorist organisation one of the largest nuclear powers on the planet. This is particularly true of major cities such as Atlanta, Houston and LA,…
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Giz Explains: How Historians Are Using Nuclear Fallout To Find Fake Art
Today’s modern art forger is capable of producing fake works of art so perfect that even trained experts are unable to spot them. Even down to the most minute details of the pigments, binders and canvass, these fakes are almost better than the works they’re based on. But thanks to a byproduct of the Atomic…
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The US Air Force’s Crazy Plan To Launch Nuclear ICBMs From A Cargo Plane
When you think ICBM, things get Freudian — a long, slender missile erupting from an underground silo or submarine bay, gliding upwards. You probably don’t consider a giant missile dumped from the back of a plane. The Air Force did.