Daily MOS: Stanislav Petrov, The World’s Reluctant Hero
All Petrov had to do was follow orders and call up the chain of command that this was happening. Nuclear retaliation from the USSR would almost certainly ensue.
Cold War
Daily MOS: Tsar Bomba, the Nuke That Scraped Heaven
The world has not since seen a nuclear blast larger than the one Andrei Sakharov created, and went on to spend his last decades fighting.
Daily MOS: The SL-1 Reactor
All we know next is that, for no apparent reason, John Byrnes pulled that control rod up by about twenty inches.
Daily MOS: The Windscale Fire
They started to produce tritium at Windscale in a reactor ill-designed for it. It’s a bastard isotope with a bad attitude and two neutrons.
Daily MOS: Jack, Rockets, Sex, & Magic
The life story of Jack Parsons could only be true because not even the worst of fiction writers would have the fucking audacity.