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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 ...

The story behind Pokhran: How one 'peaceful explosion' in 1974 made India a nuclear power by 1998

India's nuclear journey began with the 1974 'Peaceful Nuclear Explosion' at Pokhran, making it the sixth nation to harness ...
The National Interest

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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'Extreme' crystal that formed in 1945 nuclear bomb test is unlike anything scientists have seen

Samples of "trinitite" created during the world’s first nuclear bomb test in 1945 contain unique crystals never seen before.