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RENO, Nevada (AP) – The US will start shipping key components to Nevada’s desert next year to prepare for underground testing they call “tickling the dragon’s tail”, said scientists charged with ensuring the efficacy of ageing US stockpile of nuclear weapons. Experts at national defence laboratories haven’t been able to physically validate the effectiveness and […]
Christopher Nolan’s latest film joins a long line of movies, books, songs and other artworks that have tried to reckon with the bomb
In 1954, Robert Oppenheimer was subjected to what was rightly called “an extraordinary American inquisition” under the name of a security hearing. But while extremely harmful professionally and personally, the hearings were not Oppenheimer’s greatest tragedy—it was the success of his leadership in the creation of the weapon.
The Nevada Appeal, the Silver State's oldest continuously run newspaper, first published on May 16, 1865.
The president says the risk of a catastrophic nuclear showdown is at its highest level since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. Did he say too much?