Eventually it reaches the troposphere, higher than commercial flights. Radioactive particles then spew across everything below as fallout, raining back down on the Earth. A nuclear bomb produces ‘a witch’s brew of radioactive products, which are also entrained in the cloud’, the astrophysicist Carl Sagan warned decades ago. More than a million people are dead…
This story, of what the moments after a nuclear missile launch could look like, is based on facts from exclusive interviews with presidential advisers and declassified documents.
You can celebrate the Year of the Dragon this month at a handful of Lunar New Year celebrations across Arlington. In East and Central Asian cultures, the Lunar New Year heralds the arrival of spring and the beginning of a new year on the lunisolar calendar. This year, it falls on Saturday, Feb. 10. For