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Weapons
How A Soviet Doomsday Master Missile Looks And Works
1:00AM Jesus Diaz | Yesterday we learnt that the Soviets still have a working doomsday system in place. This is an SS-17 ICBM master missile, which are launched first. Once they are in the skies, they activate the launch for all the Russian nukes. More »
Weapons
Get Nervous: Rusty Soviet Doomsday System Still Turned On
12:00AM Jesus Diaz | Wired Magazine has a fascinating article on the doomsday system that was built by the Soviets 25 years ago. It was designed to obliterate the US no matter what happened to the USSR—and it still works today. Shiver. More »
Weapons
What’s The Fallout If North Korea Nukes Hawaii?
10:00PM Brian Lam | North Korea’s aiming their test missile near Hawaii. The US military says they can protect the islands, and locals aren’t too worried, but if something happens, the thermal, shockwave and radioactive fallout will look something like this. More »
Weapons
More Analysis On The Korean Rocket Launch
6:20AM Jason Chen | Really interested in what kind of nuclear rocket capability North Korea has? The Bulletin does a really in-depth analysis of the latest launch, based on released and carefully reasoned interpolated data. More »
Science
NASA Running Out Of Fuel For Deep Space Missions Because Nobody Makes Nukes Anymore
6:30AM Sean Fallon | Supplies of NASA’s go-to fuel for space exploration, plutonium-238, are dwindling. The U.S. stopped making it 20 years ago and now NASA’s Russian suppliers are running out after production shut down. More »
Weapons
93-Year-Old Japanese Man Certified as Double A-Bomb Victim
7:50AM Adam Frucci | You have some lousy luck if you’re near the site of an A-bomb strike. You have really, really bad luck if, three days later, you get hit with another nuke. More »
Weapons
Israel Has Nukes, US Army Confirms
4:38PM Jesus Diaz | Good news people! The US army has confirmed that Israel has their very own circumcised version of Dr Manhattan’s schlong. Sources estimate a collection of 200 to 400 nuclear warheads. More »
Online
Google Maps Hack Allows Me to Nuke London In One Click
12:30PM Jesus Diaz | It must be the two hundred and twenty-three times I’ve watched War Games, but I love this Google Maps “mapplet” that allows you to nuke cities with different atomic weapons, and even a Chicxulub-class asteroid. More »
Vehicles
Stealth Tech Blamed for International Sub Crash, French Crew Unaware They’d Hit Anyone for Days
8:34PM John Herrman | How could two submarines end up colliding in the middle of the ocean? British military types are blaming excessive stealthiness, and the French claim they didn’t realise what had happened for days. More »
Vehicles
