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  • North Korea Claims Successful Thermonuclear Bomb Test

    North Korea Claims Successful Thermonuclear Bomb Test

    North Korea has announced that it had successfully detonated a “miniaturised” hydrogen bomb, which is set to trigger global repercussions. Though the claims are as yet unconfirmed, a blast — earlier believed to have been a 5.1 magnitude earthquake — was registered near the North Korean city of Sungjibaegam late yesterday.


  • The Secret 1949 Radiation Experiment That Contaminated Washington

    The Secret 1949 Radiation Experiment That Contaminated Washington

    The physicists who invented the nuclear bomb worked out of Los Alamos in New Mexico, but the people who did the dirty work of making the bombs were in Hanford, Washington. Throughout the Cold War, Hanford churned out plutonium for our nuclear arsenal. It was also, conveniently, a place to experiment with radiation.


  • F-35 Drops Its First Bomb Ever

    This August 8, the F-35 has dropped its first bomb ever and I’m sure it won’t be the last. Watch this Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter test aircraft completing its “first aerial weapons release,” as the US Navy puts it.