Chernobyl: Scientists solve mystery of why wild boars are more radioactive than other animals
It has to do with the pigs’ penchant for a certain truffle - and nuclear weapons tests that predate the accident.
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It has to do with the pigs’ penchant for a certain truffle - and nuclear weapons tests that predate the accident.
Cold War nuclear weapons tests scattered radioactive material across the globe. That material can still be found in trace amounts in the sea, the soil, and — according to a new study — the flesh of wild boars roaming the forests of southern Germany.
Russia today suspended its participation in a treaty aimed at keeping a lid on nuclear weapons expansion.
Russian President Vladimir Putin declared Tuesday that Moscow was suspending its participation in the New START treaty — the last remaining nuclear arms control pact with the United States — sharply upping the ante amid tensions with Washington over the fighting in Ukraine. Speaking in his state-of-the-nation address, Putin also said that Russia should stand ready to resume nuclear weapons tests if the U.S. does so, a move that would end a global ban on nuclear weapons tests in place since Cold War times. Explaining his decision to suspend Russia's obligations under New START, Putin...
Nuclear Weapon Test, Bikini Atoll, 1954 In 2020, Harvard University’s T. C. Chan School of Public Health began a five-year study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, that will examine the connection between early life exposure to toxic metals and later-life risk of neurological disease. A collaborator with Harvard, the Radiation and Public Health […]