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Unarmed missile launched from Vandenberg in nuclear readiness test
In a move meant to showcase and test the United States nuclear forces’ readiness, military officials plan to launch an ...
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Why it would be a bad idea for the Trump administration to conduct a “rapid” nuclear test
The goal of conducting a fast-tracked nuclear test can only be political, not scientific. The United States has much to lose ...
Nuclear EMP attack: How US, Americans can prepare for ‘very real threat,’ expert says
A nuclear electromagnetic pulse (EMP) strike could cripple the U.S. electrical grid and other critical infrastructure for ...
Air Force to launch unarmed nuclear missile Minuteman III from Vandenberg tonight
Californians will be able to look to the sky to see an unarmed missile as the Air Force is set to launch the Minuteman III ...
Air Force set to launch ICBM in flex of US military muscle
The US Air Force will launch an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in Southern California next week to test and flex ...
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Inside secret US lab where US will begin testing nukes again amid fears of WWIII
The US has not conducted a real-world test of a nuclear bomb since 1992. After decades of declining nuclear stockpiles, the nuclear agency sees a real possibility that more countries around the ...
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Trump and DOGE Want To Cut Waste? This Upcoming Test Launch of a Nuclear Missile Is All Waste – and Dangerous Folly
At a press conference with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday, President Trump once again reiterated his desire ...
What Happens If Asteroid 2024 YR4 Strikes Earth — And Why We Can’t ‘Nuke’ It
An asteroid between about 130 and 300 ft. (40 and 90 meters) in diameter has been given a 2.3% chance of it hitting Earth on ...
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INL’s enduring mission: How high-flux thermal irradiation testing became a foundation for US nuclear leadership
Seventy-five years ago, the sweeping landscape of the Idaho desert over the Snake River Aquifer was a land of sagebrush, ...
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NASA and General Atomics test nuclear fuel for future moon and Mars missions
NASA and General Atomics tested the fuel by exposing it to temperatures up to 3,000 Kelvin (4,940 Fahrenheit or 2,727 Celsius ...
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An appreciation: How physicist Evgeny Velikhov helped end the US-Soviet nuclear arms race
Underground nuclear testing had not been banned in the 1963 Soviet-UK-US Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty because of the Soviets’ unwillingness to agree to the US demand for up to five inspections per ...