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Little Boy and Fat Man. They are cute nicknames. But what Little Boy and Fat Man did nearly 78 years ago forever changed the course of the world.

Nicolas Cage is a bona fide Trekkie. So we have a few ideas on who he should play, should he choose to beam aboard the Star Trek franchise.

Binance wins bid for Voyager assets, Sam Bankman-Fried is released in the US on bail and Genesis creditors seek a solution for withdrawals.

Potential use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine underscores need for U.S. and other nations to disarm - or at least make such a disaster less likely to occur.

Even a small war would mean mass famine. Policy changes would reduce the risk of apocalypse.

A positive step would be for more countries, including the U.S., to adopt a “no first use” policy — a pledge never to use nuclear weapons except in retaliation for a nuclear strike.

Sixty years ago today (October 28) the U.S. and Russia stepped back from the brink of nuclear war by making a deal. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev would - Ray McGovern for Antiwar.com Original

While the world was nearly brought to the brink of destruction 60 years ago, the actions of Kennedy and Khrushchev look positively restrained when seen in the light of the present war.

The Doomsday Clock is ticking and 2022 isn’t 1962.

This 38-minute VR experience – chronicling the 38 minutes in 2018 between the residents of Hawaii receiving a government alert about an incoming ballistic missile, and those residents learning that it was a false alarm – is a remarkable achievement.