Newsletter Photo by Björn on Unsplash How Oppenheimer’s bombs compare to today's nukes Science Friday dives into how nuclear weapons technology has evolved since the Manhattan Project.
Impacts How the U.S. betrayed the Marshall Islands, kindling the next nuclear disaster During the Cold War, the United States detonated 67 nuclear bombs on, in and above the Marshall Islands. The U.S. also conducted a dozen biological weapons tests and dumped 130 tons of irradiated soil, now vulnerable to rising seas.
Newsletter www.theatlantic.com A grim vision of climate change, ocean oxygen, and geoengineering The worst extinction in Earth’s history offers chilling predictions for the planet’s future—and for humanity’s efforts to keep climate doom at bay.
