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Christopher Nolan says the ending of 'Oppenheimer' drives home the idea that we now live in a world created by the father of the atomic bomb and 'we always will'
The epic three-hour movie on J. Robert Oppenheimer concludes with an eerie foretelling of a world c…
Jason Guerrasio
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Warren Buffett says AI is like the creation of the atom bomb — he often calls nuclear war his biggest fear
Buffett said AI had the ability to "change everything in the world except how men think and behave,…
Ryan Hogg
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Iran is selling a drone called 'Gaza' that it says can carry 13 bombs and travel 1,200 miles
Iran is selling a new drone on the international market called "Gaza."
Kenneth Niemeyer
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The Google engineer who was fired after claiming the company's chatbot is sentient says AI is the 'most powerful' tech invented 'since the atomic bomb'
Blake Lemoine was fired by Google in June 2022 after he claimed that the company's LaMDA chatbot ha…
Cheryl Teh
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How a US government program advocated using nuclear explosions for construction, farming radioactive crops, and blasting holes in the moon
In the 50s and 60s, the US dreamed up ways to bring nuclear tech into everyday life — like bu…
Marianne Guenot
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A secret bomb and ruined film: Why the US government only told Kodak it was going to test nuclear bombs
Kodak struck a secret deal with the US government to get advance notice before any nuclear testing …
Maiya Focht
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A Pacific volcano erupted with an explosive force more than 600 times the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, scientists said
Scientists say the underwater volcano's eruption may be the loudest since Krakatau, a devastating e…
Julie Coleman
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Doomsday Clock points closer to the apocalypse, and India is partially to blame
India was tragically one of the reasons behind the Clock's movement as well. Our incessant endeavou…
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The US Army only ever fired one nuclear artillery shell from its 'Atomic Annie' cannon, and this is what it looked like
Here's what it looked like when the atomic cannon fired its one and only nuclear shot. The blast wa…
Ryan Pickrell
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A nuclear bomb is still missing after it was dropped off the Georgia coastline 65 years ago
A nuclear bomb is still missing. In 1958, an Air Force B-47 jet dropped a Mark 15 near Tybee Island…
Jenny McGrath
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US honey still contains traces of the radioactive fallout of nuclear bomb testing in the '50s and '60s, study finds
Traces of radioactive cesium-137 act as a marker of "hot spots" of nuclear contamination, but they …
Marianne Guenot
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Nobel Peace Prize winning journalist calls out Mark Zuckerberg, links Facebook to the atom bomb
As context, in the press announcement on October 8, the Nobel committee lauded the Filipina'…
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How a daring raid by Norwegian commandos kept the Nazis from building a nuclear bomb
The Norwegian commandos who set out on Operation Gunnerside knew what their objective was but not w…
Benjamin Brimelow
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'Barbie' blows up 'Oppenheimer' as Greta Gerwig's plastic fantastic looks set to make $100 million more than Christopher Nolan's atomic blockbuster this weekend
According to studio projections seen by The Hollywood Reporter, "Barbie" could take $275 million gl…
Ryan Hogg
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The US military once detonated a nuclear bomb directly above the heads of 5 officers
The test was conducted to see how an unguided nuclear air-to-air rocket performed. All five men are…
Chris Panella
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Olympics president Thomas Bach visited the site of the Atomic bomb strike in Japan, and some citizens called the trip 'blasphemy'
Thomas Bach visited Hiroshima, where the US dropped the first of two Atomic bombs during World War …
Jackson Thompson
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Scientists describe setting off the world's first nuclear bomb 75 years ago: No one 'even raised the possibility that what we were doing might be morally wrong'
The Trinity nuclear explosion, part of the Manhattan Project, marked the development of the deadlie…
Aria Bendix
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The inventor of the gender-reveal party regrets what she started. These 11 other creators have lamented their contributions, too.
Twelve years after Karvunidis wrote about the cake gimmick, gender-reveal parties have become incre…
Aylin Woodward,Susie Neilson
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How a secret mission to deliver the first atomic bomb turned into the Navy's deadliest loss at sea
In July 1945, the USS Indianapolis carried out a secret mission in the Pacific. But only one-quarte…
Benjamin Brimelow
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The Olympics Committee said it won't pause for a moment of silence for Hiroshima atomic bombing after city requests for one
Olympic athletes will not be asked to hold a moment of silence for the anniversary of the Hiroshima…