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2 days ago · One day, without warning, North Korea launches an intercontinental ballistic missile, armed with a nuclear warhead, at the East Coast of the United States. This sets in motion a terrifying march to apocalypse. The first ICBM will strike its target within 33 minutes. And as Jacobsen reminds us, “Once launched, an ICBM cannot be recalled.”.
1 day ago · Oppenheimer's nuclear fallout: How his atomic legacy destroyed the world of downwind communities. In 1990, the U.S. government passed the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) acknowledging ...
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5 days ago · Black Death, pandemic that ravaged Europe between 1347 and 1351, taking a proportionately greater toll of life than any other known epidemic or war up to that time. The Black Death is widely thought to have been the result of plague, caused by infection with the bacterium Yersinia pestis.
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- It is not known for certain how many people died during the Black Death. About 25 million people are estimated to have died in Europe from the plag...
- The Black Death is believed to have been the result of plague, an infectious fever caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. The disease was likely...
- The plague that caused the Black Death originated in China in the early to mid-1300s and spread along trade routes westward to the Mediterranean an...
- Yersinia causes three types of plague in humans: bubonic, pneumonic, and septicemic. Although there is DNA evidence that Yersinia was present in vi...
- The effects of the Black Death were many and varied. Trade suffered for a time, and wars were temporarily abandoned. Many labourers died, which dev...
- The Black Death has also been called the Great Mortality, a term derived from medieval chronicles’ use of magna mortalitas. This term, along with m...
5 days ago · Even including the deadly meltdowns at Chernobyl and Fukushima, nuclear power has most likely caused only a few hundred deaths, putting its safety record on par with wind turbines and solar...
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5 days ago · A Ukrainian drone strike on a Russian radar station that can track nuclear missiles has sparked alarm in the West. Kyiv hit the Armavir radar station in the Krasnodar border region on May 23,...
2 days ago · Fukushima accident, disaster that occurred in 2011 at the Fukushima Daiichi (‘Number One’) nuclear power plant on the Pacific coast of northern Japan, which was caused by a severe earthquake and powerful series of tsunami waves and was the second worst nuclear power accident in history.
6 days ago · Last month, Iran launched a massive drone and missile attack in its first ever direct assault on Israel, which in turn was reported to strike a radar system near a secretive nuclear strike.
