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The World's First Nuclear Explosion Forged an 'Impossible' Crystal

The only well-exposed color image of the Trinity test. (Jack W. Aeby/Manhattan Project/Public Domain) We don't always get to ...

"Extreme, transient conditions": Never-before-seen material found in remnants of nuclear detonation

Extreme, transient conditions produced by nuclear detonations can generate solid-state phases inaccessible to conventional ...
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How India Is Becoming a Nuclear Weapons Powerhouse

India’s nuclear arsenal has always been modest—large enough to deter China and Pakistan from a first strike, and not ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

‘Earth in flames,’ Brian Toon and Alan Robock on whether humans will die from an asteroid or nuclear war first

Nuclear war is much more unpredictable than asteroids, but, unlike the dinosaurs of 66 million years ago, humans can avoid causing their own extinction.
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Scientists find unique crystal from 1945 nuclear blast

Rare atomic structure: Scientists discovered a unique calcium–copper–silicon clathrate crystal in red trinitite from the 1945 Trinity nuclear explosion. Extreme formation conditions: The crystal ...

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Strange crystals found inside wreckage from the first nuclear bomb test

The Trinity bomb test left behind a unique form of matter, and now, scientists have discovered a new chemical structure ...