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Three Simultaneous Nuke Launches in Fallout 76 Crashes Server
What Happens When You Detonate Three Nukes in Fallout 76? Several players found out exactly what would happen if you tried to detonate three nukes in Fallout 76. All at relatively the same time, in the same location. Six players found out almost immediately as soon as the bombs fell…
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Declassified Nuclear Test Footage Now on YouTube
Recently declassified footage of US nuclear detonation tests from the mid-twentieth century has been uploaded to YouTube. Between 1945 and 1962, the United States conducted 210 atmospheric tests of nuclear devices, of which thousands of films exist. While classified, the films of these tests have been deteriorating in storage, but…
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Russia Has Plans to Nuke Asteroids
We’ve seen the movies. I’m thinking about the one with Bruce Willis in, the asteroid hurtling towards earth and a timer that just won’t stop ticking. I am course referring to Armageddon, a film in which an asteroid could end all life on earth. We’ve heard the chances of asteroids…
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Elon Musk’s “Nuke Mars” Plan Aims to Create Artificial Suns
Last month, Elon Musk, founder of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, threatened to go full supervillain by revealing his Lex Luthor-esque plan to detonate a series of thermonuclear devices on the surface of Mars in an effort to, seemingly counterintuitively, make the planet habitable for human life. Musk has now elucidated…
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Elon Musk Wants to Nuke Mars
Billionaire philanthropist and CEO of both Tesla Motors and SpaceX Elon Musk is planning to graduate to the status of full supervillian with his audacious plan to nuke the planet Mars. Speaking to Stephen Colbert on the Late Show, Musk revealed that there are two ways to prepare Mars –…
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US to Simulate Nuke Tests Using Cray Supercomputers
Supercomputer manufacturer, Cray, is said to help the US guard its arsenal of nukes after winning a $174 million contract to provide a new supercomputer to the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). The current supercomputer, a Cray XE6 called “Cielo”, is said to have 107,152 cores and a theoretical peak…
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