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Feb 28, 2024 · The main facility that assembles and disassembles America’s nuclear arsenal shut down its operations Tuesday night in Texas as fires raged out of control near its facility. Pantex issued a...
Mar 3, 2024 · No doubt, protecting nukes is kind of a shot in the dark sometimes – no one has a crystal ball to foresee every threat. That’s why practices have evolved a ton over the decades. Post-Cold War priorities shifted to focus more on potential “rogue state” and non-state actors versus nation-state risks that dominated before.
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Mar 7, 2024 · Decades after the first-ever U.S. nuclear weapons test in July 1945, the extent of the fallout in hundreds of communities is only now being understood, thanks to new data by researchers. Written by Marisa Demarco and Derek Kravitz. The Trinity explosion, nine seconds after detonation, on July 16, 1945. (Everett Collection)
Feb 28, 2024 · The widespread fires have forced authorities to issue several evacuation orders in towns across the region. Further Reading Texas Wildfires Scorch Nearly 250,000 Acres—Here’s Where Evacuations ...
Sep 13, 2022 · It involves digging up and removing 450 missiles and 45 command hubs in Wyoming, Nebraska, Colorado, Montana, and North Dakota; paying off as many as 9,800 landowners across 193,000 acres for the ...
Mar 6, 2024 · The fire, nicknamed the Windy Deuce, has burned 90,000 acres and is only 25 percent contained. The fire has spread ever-closer to Pantex, according to the Texas A&M Forest Service, and has reached ...
Jul 17, 2018 · Chancellor John Sharp talks to Texas Monthly about a recent $2.5 billion federal contract that makes A&M accountable for ensuring the nation’s nuclear weapons will work if they are ever needed.
