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That Pretty Starship Explosion? A Lot of Pollution
The explosion of SpaceX's Starship didn't just cause damage to islands hit by falling debris. It also likely damaged the ...
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Detonating the most powerful nuclear bomb in space
That was Starfish Prime — the highest-altitude nuclear test ... a 1.4 megaton bomb from Johnston Island. And detonated it 400 km above the Pacific — about as high as where the International ...
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Here's what could happen if Putin launched a nuclear bomb in space
However, the damage from a nuclear bomb is not easy to contain ... but detonated around the same altitude, some 250 miles high. Russia is a vital part of the ISS programme, and last year agreed ...
What is Russia’s mysterious new space weapon?
WASHINGTON WAS abuzz on February 14th with news of a mysterious Russian space weapon. Mike Turner, chairman of the House ...
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Eight workers dead in Indian munitions factory explosion
An explosion at a munitions factory in India on 24 January killed at least eight people and injured seven others. The ...
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This nuclear explosion simulator shows where radioactive fallout would go using today's weather
Imagine that a 150-kiloton nuclear ... explosion and Tsar Bomba - the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated. The tool can even estimate fatalities and injuries for a given weapon yield ...