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How Japan Learned About "Nuclear Safety"

Lawrence Wittner | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lawrence Wittner

Although people can be educated in a variety of ways, experience is a particularly effective teacher. Consider the Japanese, who today are certainly ...

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New Mexico's (Atomic) Ground Zero

James M. Clash | Posted 05.25.2011

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James M. Clash

Trinity was the culmination of the Manhattan Project where, during World War II, some of the best scientific minds toiled to perfect a device they called "the gadget." With the force of 20,000 tons of TNT, the gadget broke windows 90 miles away

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Cold War's End -- The Wall Comes Down

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chris Weigant

The fall of The Wall signified the fall of the Soviet Union, and an end to the Cold War. And while this was of enormous historical import, I fear that future generations won't really pay much attention to it.

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Scientist Reveals India's 1998 Nuke Test A Failure; Poses Threat To Obama's Nonproliferation Plans

Global Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW DELHI, India Days before President Barack Obama told the United Nations that he hoped to push through a universal treaty to ban all nuclear weapon...

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Hiroshima Day: America Has Been Asleep at the Wheel for 64 Years

Daniel Ellsberg | Posted 05.25.2011

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Daniel Ellsberg

I was one of many in the late '50s misled and recruited into the nuclear arms race by exaggerated and deliberately manipulated, fears of Soviet intentions and crash efforts.

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An American Scientist, the Soviets and the H-Bomb

Robert S. Norris | Posted 05.25.2011

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Robert S. Norris

The Soviet Union may have obtained the key H-bomb secret ("radiation implosion") through espionage from an American spy at Los Alamos laboratory in the 1950s.

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Why College Students Are Having Less Sex

Newsweek | Jennie Yabroff | Posted 11.17.2011

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When asked to estimate how many sexual partners their peers had had during the past schoolyear, college students guessed three times the number of par...

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