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Going Nuclear
History84.4k viewsEverything The US Government Has Planned For Surviving A Nuclear AttackThough the threat of worldwide nuclear annihilation has lessened somewhat since the end of the Cold War, the US government's nucle...
Weird History138.3k viewsThere Is A Giant Nuclear Ticking Time Bomb Waiting To Blow In The Middle Of The Pacific OceanThe United States conducted dozens of nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands, which are part of the collection of islands that form...
Fukushima Prefecture1.8k votersHaunting Images of Fukushima, The Abandoned Nuclear Radiation Ghost TownMarch 11, 2011, was a dark day for Japan, as residents fled what would later be known as the Fukushima disaster. After the Tōhoku ...
Central Intelligence Agency857.3k viewsThis Man Stumbled Upon Directions To The US Government's Ultra-Secret Nuclear Holocaust BunkersThe reality of nuclear combat's devastation was clear as soon as the first atomic weapons were dropped during World War II, leadin...
Graveyard Shift68.4k viewsAll The Things That Happen To Your Body During A Nuclear ExplosionIs it possible to live through the immediate effects of a nuclear explosion? Will you die instantly, or will your demise be slow a...
Nuclear warfare38.4k viewsThe US Government Created A Fake Neighborhood To Test Out Nuclear WeaponsOn March 17, 1953, the United States government carried out one of a series of nuclear tests in the desert outside of Las Vegas, N...
USA37.8k viewsThe Neutron Bomb: The 'Humane' Nuclear Weapon That Protected Buildings While Killing PeopleOnce the world saw the long-lasting consequences of the atomic bomb, global powers wanted something more humane. Unfortunately, th...
North Korea8k viewsTurns Out North Korea Actually Developed Its Entire Nuclear Arsenal To Be America's Friend... WhoopsNorth Korea's pervasive news presence has revealed how little most Americans really know about North Korea and how it became the g...
Russia8.4k viewsHow The Soviet Union Quietly Became A Bigger Nuclear Power Than AmericaJust as the Second World War was wrapping up, the United States made a huge technological breakthrough: the atomic bomb. Through t...
Godzilla (Monster)3.9k views4 Facts That Prove Godzilla Is The Most Thoughtful Movie About Nuclear War EverA great monster movie is about much more than creatures. Monsters are the embodiment of a society's fears, metaphors for the very ...
Graveyard Shift5.1k viewsThe Criminally Under-Told Story Of The Brave Men Who Prevented Hitler From Attaining A Nuclear BombDuring WWII, many concerted efforts on the part of the Allies to thwart the Third Reich - and some of them worked. One group, call...
Shopping60 votersSupplies Perfect For Your Nuclear BunkerGathering supplies for a nuclear bunker can never happen too soon; after all, the purpose of a bunker is to be prepared in the eve...
USA20.1k viewsWhat's It Like Inside The Cold War Bunkers Designed To Keep The President Safe During Nuclear War?The US government seems to know far too much about its citizens, so it's disturbing to realize how little citizens know about the ...
History5.7k viewsEvery Nuclear Agreement Involving The United StatesNuclear disarmament has been a topic of public debate and concern since the atom was first split in 1945. Various nuclear agreemen...
Graveyard Shift17.2k viewsHousehold Objects That Could Save Your Life In A Nuclear DisasterFrom the influx of alarming news regarding North Korea's atomic abilities to pop culture events like HBO's Chernobyl, nuclear disa...
Graveyard Shift98 votersThings We Were Surprised And A Little Worried To Learn About Nuclear WeaponsOn August 6, 1945, the US dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, in an effort to lower the curtain on the Pacific Theater of ...