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Stories about: nuclear threat

Doomsday Clock Gets Update This Week The Doomsday Clock is a symbolic clock that was created in 1947 by a group of concerned physicists. Its main goal is to provide an alert of how close the world is to a nuclear disaster. Through it, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is trying to make people aware of the possible effects of a nuclear holocaust. It ... 12 January 2010 03:31 GMT Dirty Bombs Could Cause Serious Problems As nuclear terrorism threats on the United States multiply, doctors and nurses express their concern about whether hospitals are indeed prepared to handle large numbers of contaminated people being rushed in emergency rooms in large urban centers. Especially dangerous in this scenario are sticky bombs, which combine ... 17 October 2008 05:54 GMT