Hanford s Role in Creating the Most Cratered Landscape on Earth keyw.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from keyw.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Yucca Flat, Nevada is considered the most cratered landscape on Earth, not from ancient asteroids, but from nearly a thousand nuclear bomb tests by the United States during the Cold War.
In a world where trust in the nonproliferation regime is weakening and most bilateral arms control measures have been suspended, many experts fear that recriminations over very low-yield tests could spark a new escalation spiral to full-scale nuclear tests.
In 1954, Robert Oppenheimer was subjected to what was rightly called “an extraordinary American inquisition” under the name of a security hearing. But while extremely harmful professionally and personally, the hearings were not Oppenheimer’s greatest tragedy it was the success of his leadership in the creation of the weapon.
Nuns Against Nuclear Weapons: Plowshares Protesters have Fought for Disarmament for Over 40 years, Going to Prison for Peace counterpunch.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from counterpunch.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.