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Why we are only ever an hour away from nuclear armageddon
HENRIETTA W
Techno-optimists have declared a nuclear renaissance
In recent months, two nuclear-armed states, India and Pakistan, came to the brink of war; and two nuclear-armed states, the United States and Israel, bombed a third country, Iran, with the express aim
Of the hundreds of thousands of asteroids in our solar system, it is all too feasible that one could strike Earth. If scientists discover this is likely to happen, what are our options for defending ourselves – and who will make the key decisions? Tomas Weber reports
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How the top-secret Manhattan Project saw the invention of the atomic bomb, which culminated in the end of one war and the beginning of another
Today, every one of the crew members who carried out the bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is dead. As the 80th anniversary of the attacks approaches, Stephen Walker, one of the last writers to interview them, revisits what they told him
