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Meet the 12-year-old Hiroshima tour guide
NBC News· 2025-08-06 11:33
So, my name is Jen. I'm 12 years old and I'm doing a guide here at Peace Memorial Park. So, my great-grandmother is an atomic bomb survivor and her name is in the atomic bomb victims and the memorial.They weren't nice to atomic bomb survivors, you know, at that time. They thought that atomic bomb survivor when you go close to them, you get like atomic bomb sickness or something >> that they were contaminated. >> Yes.The most scariest thing that might happen in the future is to forget what happened long time ...
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The Economist· 2025-08-01 03:40
On “The Bomb” podcast, @alokjha goes inside America’s top-secret nuclear labs to investigate how they’re designing weapons without using explosive tests https://t.co/w1HdBjRDE4 ...
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The Economist· 2025-07-31 09:20
For the first time in decades, America is designing brand new nuclear weapons. Our podcast, “The Bomb”, goes inside the labs building themhttps://t.co/VXjom8r5D5 ...
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The Economist· 2025-07-30 21:00
How is America making nuclear weapons fit for the 21st century? Listen to “The Bomb”, a new four-part podcast series with @alokjha https://t.co/YlayEGdDyX ...
Trump skims nuclear safety funds to spruce up vanity gift plane from Qatar: Report
MSNBC· 2025-07-29 05:31
We keep nuclear weapons underground in this country um in big uh they call them silos. They are shaped like like farm silos that hold grain but instead of going up they go down. Um and all over the northern plain states we have these underground silos, these massive underground fortresses which hold huge nuclear armed intercontinental ballistic missiles in Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota. Um, and a lot of them, especially the the first ones that we built are up in that northern tier of the country because th ...
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The Economist· 2025-07-25 19:40
Scientists believe they have a better understanding of how nuclear weapons work today than they did during the explosive-testing era. The Economist visited some of these labs to find out exactly how much better https://t.co/FlnF01EY0q ...
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The Economist· 2025-07-24 19:30
For the first time in decades, America is designing new nuclear weapons. The Economist was granted rare access to the facilities where this work is taking place https://t.co/kRDoaPmcyIPhoto: Damien Jemison/LLNL https://t.co/8nQQ35dh6U ...
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Bloomberg· 2025-07-23 18:42
Iran has “not ruled out” withdrawing from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons if the United Nations were to reimpose sanctions, a lead Iranian negotiator said ahead of nuclear talks this week https://t.co/D7jBYs4iE3 ...
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The Economist· 2025-07-22 13:20
The last treaty limiting American and Russia nuclear weapons is set to expire in February. With no replacement in sight, pressure is mounting for America to update its nuclear weapons infrastructure https://t.co/V5w8BtCO0a ...
New U.S. assessment: U.S. strikes destroyed only one of three Iranian nuclear sites
MSNBC· 2025-07-17 17:11
Geopolitical & Security Analysis - US conducted air strikes on three Iranian enrichment sites: Fordo, Natanz, and Isfahan [2] - Initial assessments indicate only the Fordo site was destroyed [1][3] - Isfahan site's status remains uncertain due to difficulty in accessing enriched uranium and potential relocation [4] - US intelligence relies on overhead images for assessment due to lack of physical access [4] - The administration's public statements claiming complete obliteration of all three sites are disputed by sources [5] Military & Strategic Decisions - President Trump rejected a more comprehensive, multi-week strike plan aimed at greater destruction of Iranian uranium sites [1][5] - The rejected plan aimed to prevent Iran from obtaining and making a nuclear weapon [5] Political Implications - The initial strikes caused division among Trump's supporters, conflicting with his campaign promises of ending foreign wars [6] - Conducting strikes in Iran represented a departure from the Trump administration's campaign promises [7]