The Trump administration “has discussed whether to conduct the first U.S. nuclear test explosion since 1992,” reports the Washington Post, “in a move that would have far-reaching consequences for relations with other nuclear powers and reverse a decades-long moratorium on such actions, said a senior administration official and two former officials familiar with the deliberations.” The matter came up at a…
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Can Nuclear Fallout Make It Rain?
sciencehabit writes:
Radioactive fallout is rarely a good thing. But new research suggests charged particles emitted from Cold War-era nuclear tests may have boosted rainfall thousands of kilometers away from the testing sites, by triggering electrical charges in the air that caused water droplets to coalesce. The United States, Soviet Union, and other nations often tested nuclear weapons above ground in the…
‘Bomb Carbon’ from Cold War Nuclear Tests Found in the Ocean’s Deepest Trenches
Long-ago nuclear tests left their mark on deep-sea animals alive today. Source: https://www.livescience.com/65466-bomb-carbon-deepest-ocean-trenches.html