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Why the Soviet Union used a nuclear bomb to extinguish a fire

In 1963, a massive natural gas well in Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic suffered a catastrophic blowout, igniting an enormous ...

What happened during the Cuban Missile Crisis — the 13-day standoff that almost ended the world

In 1962, a feverish 13-day standoff took place between the United States and the Soviet Union.

American pilots were tracking Soviet weapons development. They saw something completely inexplicable.

A Cold War spy plane captured something inexplicable after a Soviet missile launch—a translucent wall of light that engulfed ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

An appreciation: How physicist Evgeny Velikhov helped end the US-Soviet nuclear arms race

Evgeny P. Velikhov died on December 5, 2024, at the age of 89. He was the most important technical contributor to Mikhail Gorbachev’s successful efforts to end the Soviet-US nuclear arms race and to ...
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From Kazakhstan to Aiken: Impact of first Soviet nuclear test still felt 75 years later

The Soviet Union successfully detonated its first nuclear weapon — RDS 1 — on Aug. 29, 1949 at a site in modern Kazakhstan and the impact of that explosion is still felt in Aiken County more than 75 ...