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.
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Daily MOS: British Nuclear Testing in Australia
I just had to go digging for a story of nuclear fuckery in Australia and hooboy, it’s a terrifying look into one of the deadliest animals in Australia: humans.
Daily MOS: Radioactive Lake Karachay
In 1951, they started dumping nuclear waste into Lake Karachay, and all was fine for a while. Really, why can’t you just dump a bunch of radioactive materials into a lake?
Daily MOS: The Demon Core
At the end of WWII, we had the unused heart of a nuclear bomb sitting around waiting to fuck shit up. Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory couldn’t be expected to just leave it alone. It was so shiny. So new. So full of untapped data.