#nuclear-war

#nuclear-war

As a teenager, I was stupefied by On the Beach (1959), the cinematic portrayal of Nevil Shute's 1957 novel about the extermination of human life in Australia as a lethal radioactive cloud drifts from the Northern Hemisphere (where it was generated by a cataclysmic nuclear war) to the South Pacific. Next came Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove (1964), still the most powerful dramatization of nuclear war's utter madness.

Much of the cinematic focus has been on the race to prevent it, or on the apocalyptic aftermath, or on the rich metaphors that it inspires. But few movies have been able to capture what it's like to be on the cusp of nuclear armageddon with the same level of nerve-shredding intensity as Kathryn Bigelow's tense new thriller, A House of Dynamite.

The twin cathedral bells at Immaculate Conception cathedral, also known as Urakami cathedral, rang together for the first time in 80 years to commemorate the bombing.

AI is entering a new world of artificial intelligence and emerging technologies influencing not only our daily life but also the nuclear world we live in.

On the morning of 6 August 1945, in Hiroshima, Japan, a flash of light enveloped the sky so brightly that a 13-year-old boy, Oiwa Kohei, thought the Sun had fallen to Earth and landed in his mother's flower beds.

A new study suggests that gold can be superheated far beyond its melting point without it becoming a liquid. Using an intense burst from a laser, a team heated a gold foil to 14 times its melting point, far beyond a theoretical limit put forward in previous studies.

The Doomsday Clock now sits at 89 seconds to midnight, closer than ever, signifying a critical point in humanity's existential threats, notably from nuclear war.

In a World War III scenario with nuclear weapons, COOP would ensure the president, military leaders, and other officials operate from safe locations, preventing a leadership collapse that could lead to disorder throughout the society.

Charlamagne suggested that the egos of Trump and Putin could lead to a nuclear war, posing a grave threat to civilization.