Arms race

Because of that 1979 protest and decades of painstaking and difficult struggle, LILCO was stopped in its nuclear push – and Long Island today is nuclear-free.

Robert J Oppenheimer, who is depicted by Cillian Murphy in a hit new film famously said in the moments after the first successful atom bomb test: 'I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.'

Will technological advantages be enough for China to replace the US as the world’s AI superpower?

A list of the United States’ potential targets in the event of war with the Soviet Union shows that while many were industrial facilities and government buildings, one for each city was simply designated “Population.”

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Contrary to what the song says, war has been good for some things. By Ian Morris

Hydrogen Bomb area of effect

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