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The Animated History of Nuclear Weapons Tests (Hang with this one. It starts out slow, but by the 1950s, you’re going to freak out at all of the nuclear tests that were taking place — too many of which...
View ArticleThe Second Bomb
Question for the room… There’s been an ongoing debate for the last 55 years about whether or not we should have dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima. But on this day in 1945, we dropped a second bomb —...
View ArticleWhat Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Americans are smart! If the clash over rebuilding the nation’s nuclear arms complex has an epicenter, it lies in New Mexico on the flanks of an extinct volcano near an active geologic fault that has...
View ArticleWhy We Fight
Yesterday was the anniversary of President Eisenhower’s farewell address in which he warned against the influence of the military industrial complex. So here, presented in full, is the phenomenal...
View ArticleCrazy Quote of the Day
“I believe that the evidence is very clear that he was developing weapons of mass destruction.” Senator Joe Lieberman today on Morning Joe Uh. What?!
View ArticleWhat Could Go Wrong?
This should serve as a healthy portion of Humble Pie, but it probably won’t. Unfortunately. The United States could only account for 1,160 out of 17,500 kilograms of Highly-Enriched Uranium (HEU) —...
View ArticleSuper Stupid
Herman Cain is worried about China. “They’ve indicated that they’re trying to develop nuclear capability…” China has been nuclear since 1964. They’re responsible for the fourth largest nuclear...
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The Launch Codes
This is an actual poll conducted by Fox News yesterday. Michele Bachmann is two points ahead of Jon Huntsman? Really? She might nuke the wrong country. And Herman Cain? The guy who says attacking Iran...
View ArticlePrice Is Right Fail Horn
North Korea really tried to make the world piss itself in fear yesterday, but their stupid missile test was a phenomenal blunder. PYONGYANG, North Korea — North Korea’s much-anticipated rocket launch...
View ArticleU.S. Military Considered Blowing Up the Moon
I thought this was a joke, but it’s not. CBS News reports: During the height of the Cold War, U.S. officials debated whether to detonate nuclear bomb on the moon in order to send a message to the...
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