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Three prestigious authors, two great books, one important goal. The books that should be out by January next year address the uncomfortable matters of the atomic bomb – its spreading, the involved politics, nuclear proliferation and the like – and warn once again about the dangerous course the nuclear eff... |
10 December 2008
05:57 GMT |
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The Compton Gamma Ray Observatory was somewhat the equivalent of the Hubble Telescope almost a decade ago, in terms of searching for gamma-ray bursts, the most immense blasts ever detected in the vastness of space, from 1991 to 2000. Sadly, in June 2000, following a major glitch of the device, NASA decided to retire ... |
8 December 2008
07:39 GMT |
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Instead of relaxing, under the common threat of the global financial crisis and in the light of new treaties against arms proliferation, the centuries-old tensions between the US and Russia have become even higher. As a result, or perhaps as a cause – who knows anymore? – the Russian military officials ha... |
5 December 2008
17:31 GMT |
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American president-elect Barack Obama's views on the course and actions to be undertaken in relation to the international mass-effect weapon possession and usage seem to be somewhat worrying. This is mainly because he appears largely interested in preventing the use of nuclear weapons, but much less so in dealin... |
5 December 2008
06:27 GMT |
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For a long time during its early years, NR-1 was a classified mission vehicle, the smallest of the Navy's submarine fleet, and the only one that was able and destined to perform search and recovery missions, ocean exploration, as well as underwater installation and maintenance works up to a depth of more than ha... |
1 December 2008
11:19 GMT |
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The major concern of the Western countries related to the Iranian nuclear intentions were further fueled by today's launch of a "Kavosh 2" rocket, as reported by the national media. This is the latest in a series of evidence associated to the degree of advancement in their nuclear technology. Although the Irania... |
26 November 2008
09:43 GMT |
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With all the events going on, including Phoenix Mars Lander's recent demise and the discoveries provided by the two twin rovers, Opportunity and Spirit, as well as the uncertainty raised by the space shuttle retirement process and its replacement system, scientists still find the time to think about the future o... |
13 November 2008
11:27 GMT |
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The worst Russian submarine incident since the 2000 explosion of a torpedo killing 118 persons aboard took place this Saturday. Now, more details of the tragedy have been made public. It seems that the event that led to the death of 20 persons and injuring of another 21 was caused by a false alarm that triggered the ... |
11 November 2008
10:18 GMT |
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According to the Associated Press, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has recently warned against the oversights that occurred during the process of constructing facilities for the nuclear power generation. The warning has been based on findings, which date from earlier this year and are connected to the co... |
5 November 2008
07:42 GMT |
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Security forces from Iran have recently captured and arrested two dangerous pigeons that posed a huge threat to the Iranian national security by spying on one of the many nuclear facilities of the country. The pair of birds, which have just raised terrorist operations to an even higher level, were caught by the... |
3 November 2008
10:22 GMT |
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For 230 years, the Greenbrier Hotel in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, has been a summer residence for royalty, presidents and the rich. But little was known about the fact that, a bit more than half a century ago, the shelter it provided also came in a different version - the nuclear one. Unwittingl... |
30 October 2008
10:31 GMT |
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This Monday, the first meeting of the Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament took place at the Intercontinental Hotel in Sydney, Australia. Gareth Evans, the co-chair of the commission, former Australian foreign minister between 1988 and 1996, and President of the International Crisis Group at Brusse... |
22 October 2008
05:33 GMT |
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Three new spam campaigns have been circulating around the web in the recent few days. One claims to contain an adult video featuring the US presidential candidate, senator Barack Obama, another announces that a nuclear power station exploded near London and the authorities keep it secret and the third warns that user... |
12 September 2008
09:18 GMT |
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Hackers managed once again to terrify an entire nation after they shut down websites belonging to Russian nuclear power plants and spread information of a nuclear accident on the Internet. The worst thing is that people actually use the hacked websites to check radiations and radioactive emissions in a certain region... |
28 May 2008
05:22 GMT |
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Great power comes with great responsibility, a wise man once said. Indeed it does, and nuclear waste is only one of the problems that come along with this great power. Nuclear energy has great potential for electrical energy generation, as it uses relatively small amounts of fuel and converts it into a massive amount... |
4 March 2008
04:58 GMT |
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Bringing the Sun to Earth, that's what nuclear physicists dream of today. The imminent depletion of fossil fuels, the inefficiency of renewable power sources and dangers posed by the use of nuclear fissionable fuels point to only one future energy-production solution, nuclear fusion. More than two thirds of the ... |
3 March 2008
05:09 GMT |
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Only a few decades ago, several European countries decided to ban nuclear power forever, because of the fears regarding radiation emissions and possible nuclear accidents that could literally render a whole city uninhabitable for a few million years. Today, however, greenhouse gases and increased power demand seem to... |
14 January 2008
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It's not so hard to be a hacker these days. You don't have to be a geek to know a lot of script. Now, hackware has a nice interface and even comes with support! I guess that the hardest part is to get inside one of these communities because then you can simply buy the software and with so many sites and use... |
4 September 2007
09:26 GMT |
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American citizens are not very fond of nuclear powerplants, in fact, of anything that involves the word "nuclear." This is somewhat understandable considering that for half a century they lived with the constant threat of global nuclear war, caused by the arms race and constant showoffs from both the former Soviet U... |
24 July 2007
10:52 GMT |
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It's the cosmic equivalent to a suicide and black holes are responsible for it. When unfortunate stars come close to these highly energetic events, they are not only torn apart by the huge gravity black holes produce, they are also pushed to commit suicide.Like flies drawn by fly-paper, stars getting dangerousl... |
19 July 2007
08:20 GMT |
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The first explosion of a man-made nuclear weapon took place on July 16, 1945 in the desolate White Sands deserts of New Mexico. The world would soon realize the devastating effects of this type of weapon and would live with fear of global annihilation for half a century.What the world didn't know is that the US... |
17 July 2007
02:48 GMT |
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Towards the end of the E3 convention, Bethesda Softworks, publisher of Fallout 3, has released an impressive fact sheet for their much anticipated post-nuclear RPG launching towards the end of 2008 (fall) for Sony's PS3, Microsoft's Xbox 360 and of course, the PC.First things first: Vault 101 - Jewel of the... |
17 July 2007
02:44 GMT |
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Our universe is made of ordinary stuff: electrons, neutrons, protons. But these particles have some weird cousins that occasionally flash into existence for just moments. The neutrinos is an example of elementary particles, but it displays some unusual properties: it travels close to the speed of light, has no elect... |
12 July 2007
04:18 GMT |
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What's the connection between a nuclear explosion and a bird's feathers? Well, the brighter the bird, the more exposed it is to radiation, as found by a new research examining bird populations around the 1986 nuclear disaster zone at Chernobyl, Ukraine. The same compounds that many birds employ to give colo... |
12 July 2007
03:27 GMT |
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After the Cold War, the U.S. did not build any more nuclear weapons and even plans to retire many of these weapons as part of its nuclear arsenal reductions under the Moscow Treaty on Strategic Offensive Reductions.Instead, they concentrated on the only thing in the world that can stop an Intercontinental Ballistic ... |
6 July 2007
10:54 GMT |
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The downloadable mapping tool Google Earth discovered a nuclear ballistic missile for the Chinese submarines that seems to be located somewhere at the Xiaopingdao Submarine Base south of Dalian, approximately 193 miles north of Qingdao, as Hans M. Kristensen from the Federation of American Scientists said. According ... |
6 July 2007
05:09 GMT |
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The Cold War was a time when all kinds of dangerous weapons were built, just to prove that one country could do it before the other. The nuclear bomb recently discovered, it soon became the ultimate terror weapon and a constant threat that the entire planet was forced to live with for decades.It wasn't long aft... |
5 July 2007
10:52 GMT |
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Nuclear power plants contain most of the non-military radioactive material in the U.S. and with the latest support for the revival of nuclear energy, in order to reduce the dependence on foreign oil, the Department of Energy's Nuclear Energy Research Initiative wants new ways of making that energy source as saf... |
2 July 2007
04:21 GMT |
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It's called MOAB Massive Ordnance Air Blast, or GBU-43/B, but the most familiar description is Mother Of All Bombs. This is truly the most powerful non-nuclear weapon ever designed and is only delivered by a Lockheed C-130 Hercules, the main tactical carrier for many military forces worldwide. The result of a t... |
29 June 2007
11:22 GMT |
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An explosion is a sudden increase in volume and release of energy in a violent manner, usually with the generation of high temperatures and the release of gases. Well, that's nice to know, but what are the most effective explosives, besides the nuclear bomb?TNTTrinitrotoluene is best known as a useful explosive... |
23 June 2007
07:15 GMT |
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The Ztohoven "artistic group" is currently under investigation by the authorities for the members' involvement in the hacking of the Czech TV broadcast. Ztohoven interfered with the Panorama program, a show designed to offer viewers live access of different Czech locations via panoramic cameras and introduced th... |
21 June 2007
12:05 GMT |
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Among the arsenal of the most advanced military superpowers, one weapon is the most feared. It's not the atomic bomb, it's even more powerful, while being almost undetectable and can launch a devastating surprise attack on almost any country in the world.Operating underwater at pressures beyond the range o... |
19 June 2007
10:59 GMT |
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Among the arsenal of the most advanced military superpowers, one weapon is the most feared. It's not the atomic bomb, it's even more powerful, while being almost undetectable and can launch a devastating surprise attack on almost any country in the world.Operating underwater at pressures beyond the range o... |
5 June 2007
11:18 GMT |
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Russia performed a test fire of its newest Inter Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) this week and officials say it was a complete success. Capable of carrying multiple independent warheads, it's also able - according to government officials - to penetrate any defense system in the world.An intercontinental ba... |
30 May 2007
02:50 GMT |
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X-rays have many uses in some very sensitive areas of technology. They are primarily used for diagnostic radiography and crystallography, but also in astronomy, microscopic analysis and fluorescence.Digital color x-rays are an advancement of this technology and it's used in nuclear physics to search for element... |
24 May 2007
05:13 GMT |
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For the first time, scientists have been able to decipher the mysteries of the neutron stars. Using computer simulations to reproduce the conditions in space, they have been able to find out their chemical composition and to learn more about the behavior of the matter under extreme pressures and temperatures.Neutron... |
22 May 2007
16:06 GMT |
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An official from the Chinese Space Administration declared that the first step in Moon exploration will take off later this year. It's a Moon orbiter, part of an ambitious Chinese space exploration plan.The country's lunar ambitions are set out in the "Chang'e Project," named after the Chinese moon go... |
21 May 2007
15:31 GMT |
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A new radical approach to nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) uses a microscopic detector to severely decrease the amount of proteins required to measure molecular structures and could eventually produce a dramatic decrease in size of the existing devices.Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is a physical phenomenon based ... |
16 May 2007
16:06 GMT |
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Oxygen Games has finally announced their enigmatic title, King of Clubs, a highly anticipated mix of absorbing and addictive mini-games, featuring lots of brain tickling situations, never the same game twice, buy, hire or simply outsmart others to achieve your very own piece of property. This one's for gamers w... |
9 May 2007
04:37 GMT |
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The US Government has announced plans to create the first new nuclear warhead since the end of the Cold War. The official reason is that the military wants to replace the old W76 warheads, made since 1978, that are being stored in what is known as the Enduring Nuclear Stockpile or deployed on nuclear submarines.An ... |
2 May 2007
06:30 GMT |
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One step closer to a high-yield fusion reactor: a new, revolutionary electrical circuit should carry enough power to produce the long-sought goal of controlled high-yield nuclear fusion. But wait, there's more: it can do it every 10 seconds. Sandia National Laboratories' Z machine is already the largest pr... |
26 April 2007
05:12 GMT |
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A nuclear isomer is a metastable state of an atomic nucleus caused by the excitation of one or more of its protons or neutrons or both. It occupies a higher energy state than the corresponding non-excited nucleus, called the ground state. The nuclear isomer will sooner or later release the extra energy and decay int... |
6 April 2007
04:44 GMT |
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A white dwarf is what stars like our Sun become after they have exhausted their nuclear fuel. Near the end of its nuclear burning stage, such a star expels most of its outer material, creating a planetary nebula. Only the hot core of the star remains. This core becomes a very hot (T > 100,000K) young white dwarf, wh... |
28 March 2007
02:45 GMT |
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One of the most important questions in nuclear physics today is the structure of heavy atomic nuclei, and although experimental nuclear physics has known significant advances in the last decades, the task of a detailed probing of atomic nuclei still relies significantly on advanced nuclear theory.The problem is that... |
27 March 2007
04:40 GMT |
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