单词 | nuclear |
例句 | “Here’s a fun fact,” Mr. Chang says, “if humans bomb the planet with their nuclear arsenal, the only life left on Earth will be cockroaches. Only they can survive the toxic fallout.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Lawrence’s campaign to add a nuclear reactor to Berkeley’s arsenal of atom-smashing technologies dated back to his wartime effort to wrest Enrico Fermi’s nuclear pile away from Arthur Compton and the University of Chicago. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Blast them with TNT or maybe nuclear warheads? A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Fissionable material could be stolen from nuclear reactors. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z What would it feel like, I wondered, when we finally got to go somewhere without the guy carrying the nuclear football? Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z As we discussed earlier, one would expect that at such high temperatures the strong and weak nuclear forces and the electromagnetic force would all be unified into a single force. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Mark closed his eyes, tried to tamp down the rage that was building inside him like a nuclear reaction. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z According to conventional nuclear physics, this was extraordinary, even bizarre: nuclei of different weights would be expected to emit disintegration products of widely variable energies, with the heavy elements producing the more energetic recoils. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z What would we feel on its seething self-luminous surface, or immersed in its heart of nuclear fire? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Last month, Iran abandoned preconditions for resuming international negotiations over its nuclear programs that the West had considered unacceptable. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z As one of his final acts, Gorbachev passed the Soviet nuclear codes—which could initiate a nuclear missile launch—to Boris Yeltsin, the president of the Russian Federation. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z And they are nuclear explosions billions of miles away. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z In part this new skepticism reflected the superior technical knowledge of his official overseers, who now included trained physicists with knowledge of nuclear physics that equaled or even exceeded his own. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The pollution entering our waterways comes from many sources: radioactive wastes from reactors, laboratories, and hospitals; fallout from nuclear explosions; domestic wastes from cities and towns; chemical wastes from factories. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He loved fantasy and sci-fi, and read books about what to do to survive a nuclear attack; he imagined he’d live in an underground house. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z What is often called the strategy of nuclear deterrence is remarkable for its reliance on the behavior of our nonhuman ancestors. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They pleaded for the global abolition of nuclear weapons. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The scientists urged the committee not to short-circuit testing that could make nuclear weapons more moral. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But the complexity of nuclear physics was rapidly outstripping the capabilities of the laboratory apparatus of small science. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The basic idea of GUTs is as follows: as was mentioned above, the strong nuclear force gets weaker at high energies. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Dunning’s paper, which declared nuclear testing to be “mandatory to the defense of our country,” was couched in the sober language of an academic treatise. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Within the privacy of the White House, there were even discussions if it would become necessary to use nuclear weapons. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z It was like pushing a button in me—the kind of big blinking red button you might find in some sort of nuclear facility surrounded by warning signs and evacuation maps. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Costly mistakes, like sexual confusion and nuclear weapons, which by the way are both legacies passed down from the greatest generation—the guys who whipped Hitler—are strongly related to extinction. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Many of the American and European emigre scientists who developed the first nuclear weapons were profoundly distressed about the demon they had let loose on the world. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The belief was that a nation could deter a "first strike," in the parlance of nuclear strategists, by making sure that the enemy understood that their strike would never succeed. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Even Holly’s beacon was a few shades below par, and that had a micro nuclear battery sending out the pulses. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Plagues of insects and consequent further agricultural disorders are a likely consequence of nuclear war. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Some thirty universities were performing nuclear physics research on navy contracts, which in some cases accounted for 90 percent of their research budgets. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He agreed that the US program should be ramped up to recover the American lead in nuclear weaponry, but he thought his visitors’ fancies had far outrun the practicality of the Super. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Still, the MTA’s failure marked only a temporary stumble in Lawrence’s influence over domestic nuclear policy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Using Penkovsky's data as a guide, CIA officials came to a shocking conclusion: The Soviet nuclear missiles on Cuba were close to being fully operational. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z If she was ever going to make it through high school, she’d probably need a nuclear explosion every night. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z While the Rad Lab quickly moved back into basic nuclear research, Ernest Lawrence maintained his personal interest in military projects. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Under the cloak of extreme secrecy, Soviet merchant ships began ferrying R-12 medium-range nuclear missile parts, launchers, and technicians to Cuba. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The subtext was the necessity of government funding for more nuclear reactors—including one, it was hoped, at Berkeley. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “What if there was a nuclear bomb, and only the people in this room survived?” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z It has some of the greatest Nobel Prize winners of this last century, nuclear physicists that almost cracked the atom—but kids around here don’t even know it’s there. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Given the claims emanating from Berkeley about the superiority of the cyclotron for all varieties of nuclear research, the oversight demanded a deeper explanation than simply a miswired switch. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z To explain what kept atoms together, other forces were needed, and in the 1930s two were discovered: the strong nuclear force and weak nuclear force. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Befote I could tell him no, he dove between me and the bull just as it unleashed a nuclear firestorm. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z The fleet was not, in fact, outfitted with nuclear weapons, but the message was clear. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z But whether the future of nuclear technology lay in war or peace, dispersing an effective team of experienced researchers and leaving them without financial support would be a foolhardy course for the government. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Lawrence’s brusque four-paragraph letter reported deuteron-induced radioactivity in fourteen light elements and speculated brashly that “in these nuclear reactions new radioactive isotopes of many of the elements might be formed.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z By the end of the twentieth century many nations had collected nuclear weapons. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Most felt that the development of a US heavy-water reactor was a perfectly sound idea, given its potential to advance nuclear knowledge. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z These demands arose from the growing awareness that researchers had become entirely too complacent about the potent electrical and nuclear forces with which they were working. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z When I emerge out of the nuclear mushroom of this thinking, burnt to a crisp, I’m at CSA. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Would we argue that ten thousand targeted nuclear warheads are likely to enhance the prospects for our survival? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z What do you do when the world has declared nuclear war on you? The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Stars will remain stable like this for a long time, with heat from the nuclear reactions balancing the gravitational attraction. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z John brought to their partnership the initiative to expand nuclear research into biology and physiology, and Ernest contributed the instrument that could make that happen. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He was huge, like a big, black, squawking, enraged and murderous turkey, and if he’d had a gun, or a knife, or access to a nuclear device, I would have been gone instantly. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Q: How is it possible that humans invented something as amazing as an airplane and something as awful as a nuclear bomb? Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z But there are tens of thousands of nuclear weapons. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As with the spy Penkovsky before him, the information Gordievsky passed to his handlers, experts believe, may well have defused a global crisis and averted nuclear war. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Even the nuclear realists, busy as their minds must be with calculations of acceptable levels of megadeath, would not want to overlook anything. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z If we are willing to contemplate nuclear war and the wholesale destruction of our emerging global society, should we not also be willing to contemplate a wholesale restructuring of our societies? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But a more massive star will spend its nuclear fuel faster, become a red giant sooner, and be first to enter the final white dwarf decline. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The neutrons, which contribute nuclear forces of attraction and no electrical forces of repulsion, provide a kind of glue that helps to hold the nucleus together. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z If not, people would have the birds of sadness nesting in their hair all the time, because of nuclear war and the greenhouse effect and bombs and stabbings and lunatics. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Luckily for us, stars don’t collapse because there is another force at work: nuclear fusion. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “It may be that the day of useful nuclear energy is not so far distant after all,” he wrote to his fellow cyclotron builder Alexander Allen. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The land was in the desert near where nuclear bomb tests had been held. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z “Superbug, nuclear war, man-made black hole, asteroid. I have a lot of theories.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Viewing Lomanitz as a dangerous leftist, they plotted to remove him from sensitive nuclear research via the simple expedient of drafting him into the army. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Southwest have promoted the use of their reservations as repositories for nuclear waste. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The problem with the relativists is that they explain bad science and good science, phrenology and nuclear physics, in exactly the same way—advocates of ‘the strong programme’ explicitly insist on this equivalence. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Rutherford had drawn a road map for the future of nuclear physics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z This activity, curiously, remained nestled close to the uranium target, unlike other fission products, which typically were driven some distance away by the energy of nuclear fragmentation. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z A star tens of times more massive than the Sun can stably convert hydrogen to helium for only a few million years before moving briefly on to more exotic nuclear reactions. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t as though he was running on some nuclear reactor; unless he took something in soon, he’d wind down and stop. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z By the end of 1939, the Radiation Laboratory was leading the world in its discoveries of nuclear transformations. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Indeed, the event was something like a musical equivalent of nuclear fusion. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The old guard’s natural radiation sources, the thimblefuls of radium and clumps of radium-beryllium they used to make the discoveries that transformed physics—nuclear disintegration, the neutron, and artificial radioactivity—had had their day. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The weight of the outer layers of the star is now supported by the high temperatures and pressures generated in the interior nuclear reactions. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Most important for the people of 13, it was the center of the Capitol’s nuclear weapons development program. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z How is it that we now have intercontinental missiles with nuclear warheads, whereas 30,000 years ago we had only sticks with flint spearheads? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z To chair the panel devoted to the crucial issues of international inspection and control of nuclear materials, he named Ernest Lawrence. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In 1947, she warned of the dangers of atomic warfare and campaigned for global efforts to ban nuclear weapons. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Orion was designed to utilize explosions of hydrogen bombs, nuclear weapons, against an inertial plate, each explosion providing a kind of “putt-putt,” a vast nuclear motorboat in space. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Orion was under serious development in the United States until the signing of the international treaty that forbids the detonation of nuclear weapons in space. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z What if they ask me about nuclear weapons in the Soviet Union or something like that? Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Consequently, it would no longer be possible to compel “all those interested in nuclear physics and penetrating radiations to come to Berkeley.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The fourth category is the strong nuclear force, which holds the quarks together in the proton and neutron, and holds the protons and neutrons together in the nucleus of an atom. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Three girls spilled out of the photo booth after the fourth nuclear flash. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z But not the kind used in nuclear bombs. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Even before Strauss’s appointment was made public, he began moving against Oppenheimer, impelled by the physicist’s increasingly outspoken campaign for a public debate on nuclear policy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In defeat, Adlai Stevenson had succeeded in placing nuclear testing policy solidly on the public agenda. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “We cannot take the same attitude now because the success which we have achieved in the development of nuclear power is fraught with infinitely greater dangers than were all the inventions of the past.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The yanquis, rumors go, have ringed the island with nuclear poison, hoping to starve the people and incite a counterrevolution. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He was poised for battle against the chess establishment, the Union Bank of Switzerland, the Jews, the United States, Japan, Icelanders in general, the media, processed foods, Coca-Cola, noise, pollution, nuclear energy, and circumcision. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Each side continually explores the limits of the other’s tolerance, as in flights of nuclear bombers over the Arctic wastes; the Vietnam and Afghanistan wars—a few entries from a long and dolorous list. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon after taking office as AEC chairman in 1953, Strauss expanded Project Sherwood, an Atoms for Peace program aimed at developing electric power reactors based on nuclear fusion. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The office phone’s red like a nuclear hotline and it’s got buttons you push, not the dial you get on normal phones. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Soviet forces in Eastern Europe, including nuclear missile crews, moved into high alert. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Dad explained how they had sonar detectors kind of like the ones in nuclear submarines. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z At normal energies, the strong nuclear force is indeed strong, and it binds the quarks tightly together. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The Capitol had another nuclear arsenal out west, but it couldn’t attack 13 without certain retaliation. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The number of black holes, however, is almost certainly very much higher; in the long history of the universe, many stars must have burned all their nuclear fuel and have had to collapse. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z For this, he needed equipment to manage intense radioactivities and, as a capstone, a nuclear reactor—the one nuclear technology that had eluded Lawrence’s grasp. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z We, the nuclear hostages—all the peoples of the Earth—must educate ourselves about conventional and nuclear warfare. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Similarly, nearly forty years later, researchers discovered that the Soviets had moved short-range nuclear cruise missiles into striking distance of the US military base in Guantanamo Bay. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z But with the real possibility of nuclear conflict with the USSR—and the failure of the CIA to send its own agents behind the Iron Curtain—the time had come to make it happen. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Some way had to be found to impart greater energies to the projectiles: man’s cunning had to augment nature’s gifts to create a new kind of nuclear probe. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z And it seems that some Chinese chickens will soon come home to roost, with China’s recent successful nuclear tests. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z If such an impact occurred today it might be mistaken, especially in the panic of the moment, for a nuclear explosion. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The Met Lab scientists therefore had the time and leisure to ponder the greater implications of nuclear weaponry and its control. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z For some non-Jews, such as Erwin Schrödinger and nuclear chemist Max Delbrück, the situation was morally untenable. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The MAD principle argued that a first strike against the enemy would almost certainly fail to destroy its entire nuclear arsenal and would lead to an immediate cycle of retaliation. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The trench, the CIA learned, contained special communications cables to carry the latest intelligence about the Soviets' nuclear weapons program. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Lilienthal had been brooding all day over a pending decision by President Truman about expanding the nation’s nuclear arsenal, a $319 million proposition pushed assiduously by the Pentagon. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Everyone assumes we would send up a nuclear warhead and blast it to smithereens. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z On that day, US reconnaissance aircraft flying from bases in Japan and outfitted with special detection equipment picked up signs of nuclear debris in the atmosphere. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z As Lawrence became more interested in the military applications of nuclear research, he grew more dismayed at the lack of progress under the dead hand of the Uranium Committee. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z And let me tell you, that old, old, old, decrepit geometry book hit my heart with the force of a nuclear bomb. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z “Asteroid impact, gamma radiation from a nearby supernova, nuclear holocaust.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z His idea was to offer the Russians a two-year moratorium on nuclear testing, with compliance to be verified by eight to twelve monitoring stations on each country’s territory. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shining because of distant nuclear fusion. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The neutron and deuterium were both discoveries from that miraculous year of 1932, when nuclear physics gave up some of its greatest secrets. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Within the decade, Oppenheimer’s theoretical teachings and Ernest Lawrence’s cyclotron would transform Berkeley into very much Caltech’s superior—no longer a desert but the preeminent center of nuclear physics in the world. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He was holding the wad of paper towel in his outstretched hand like it was nuclear waste. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Arm replied, “We all come from the village of Hwange, near the nuclear power plant.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z From now on, wherever he went, he’d be closely trailed by a military aide carrying a forty-five-pound briefcase containing launch authentication codes and sophisticated communications devices, often referred to as the nuclear football. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z A couple of days later, in Lawrence’s office, York was startled when Ernest asked him bluntly: “Does the United States need a second nuclear weapons laboratory?” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Now, for the first time since 1945, the man-made thunder and lightning at nuclear test ranges around the world ceased. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z So at first there was not one Scientific Revolution but two, one exemplified by Newton’s classical physics, the other by Rutherford’s nuclear physics. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Several news publications looked into the predictions of powerful yet clean nuclear weapons made by Lawrence, Teller, and the president and determined they were talking fantasy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Strauss’s words created alarm over the prospect of nuclear holocaust without laying to rest the public’s anxiety about fallout. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Eventually, however, the star will run out of its hydrogen and other nuclear fuels. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But they don’t never explain more than just sayin, Yeah, your mother was on the moon, she been in nuclear bombs and made that polio vaccine. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z At that time—and in many ways it is still true—the public was given at best a very limited and horribly skewed idea of what nuclear war would be like. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z And the best way to send this message was by massive and ongoing buildups of their stockpiles of nuclear weapons. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Ernest Rutherford was as quick as Lawrence and Lewis to divine the virtues of the deuton as a nuclear projectile. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z This is accomplished by the process of mitosis, or nuclear division. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z There is little indication that the motivations and propensities for warfare have diminished since, and both conventional and nuclear weaponry has become far more deadly. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z For example, I was terrified of car accidents, death, cancer, brain tumors, nuclear war, pregnant women, loud noises, strict teachers, elevators, and scads of other things. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z We have heard the rationales offered by the nuclear superpowers. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Meitner responded immediately, agreeing that the news was amazing, but adding: “We have experienced so many surprises in nuclear physics that one cannot say without hesitation about anything: ‘it’s impossible.’ Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z To Oppenheimer, Truman’s refusal to even try to forge a genuine partnership with the Soviet Union for the control of nuclear weapons was a tragic lost opportunity. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In violation of United Nations resolutions, North Koreans have also sold rockets and nuclear weapons technology to countries including Iran and Syria, according to U.N. officials. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z After receiving a standing ovation for a speech at Washington University in St. Louis advocating a test ban, Pauling launched a petition drive among scientists calling for an immediate international halt to all nuclear testing. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He saw Mars sitting at his grandmother’s bedside, looking at Frank with those nuclear explosion eyes: You’re Juno’s secret weapon. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The world's first nuclear attack stunned the Soviet leader, but not out of pity for the Japanese victims. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z These were warheads loaded with eight to fourteen nuclear payloads, each one up to twenty-five times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z What began as a tense standoff between the two superpowers now threatened to spiral into an actual nuclear conflict. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z In the event of a nuclear war, do not fear: There will be anchovies on Ritz crackers for El Capitano and his loved ones. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z As part of the vanguard of European cyclotron construction, the university soon would rival the Cavendish as the hub of nuclear science in Britain. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z According to the equations of quantum mechanics, more power than is stored in all the coal mines, oil fields, and nuclear weapons in the world is sitting in the space inside your toaster. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Well, no, no, no. I’d rather use the nuclear bomb. Have you got that, Henry?” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Her eyes were blue like Jason’s, but they gleamed with fractured light, like she’d just come out of a bunker after a nuclear war - hungrily searching for familiar details in a changed world. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Lewis Strauss’s monopoly on the scientific information reaching Dwight Eisenhower was about to end, taking with it Ernest Lawrence’s influence over nuclear policy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z This is merely another way of saying what we have known for decades: the development of nuclear weapons and their delivery systems will, sooner or later, lead to global disaster. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She got arrested five times for protesting against nuclear power. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z This is nothing, he thinks, reminding himself of the nuclear power plant that melted down in Fukushima, Japan, after an earthquake, and the tsunami that followed. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Johnson didn’t want nuclear weapons on the table, or calling up the Army Reserves. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The refugee Hungarian physicist had placed the very notion of atomic weaponry on the federal government’s radar in 1939, when he prompted Albert Einstein to alert Franklin Roosevelt to the military potential of nuclear fission. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The Orion starship is the best use of nuclear weapons I can think of. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It exposed them to lethal levels of radiation, but reduced Japan’s nuclear contamination tenfold. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I make it through the first two weeks of school without a nuclear meltdown. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z As the Cold War escalated, some scientists exposed Henrietta’s cells to massive doses of radiation to study how nuclear bombs destroyed cells and find ways to reverse that damage. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z What made their partnership extraordinary was that during this nascent period of nuclear physics, theorists and experimentalists customarily regarded each other with mutual condescension and suspicion. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Americans and Russians now lived with the real possibility that nuclear war might happen at any time, and with almost no warning. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Truly effective nuclear bluffing, however, includes occasional postures of irrationality, a distancing from the horrors of nuclear war. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As it happened, not everyone in the nuclear research and development community thought a test moratorium would be a bad thing. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z If we bring it close to the uranium ore, which is emitting helium nuclei in a spontaneous nuclear decay, the count rate, the number of clicks per minute, increases dramatically. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z However, there is another property of the strong nuclear force, called asymptotic freedom, that makes the concept of quarks and gluons well defined. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Both countries deployed new fleets of submarines packed with nuclear missiles. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Khrushchev stormed out of the Paris nuclear summit only a day after it began. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Still, the idea of attempting to release nuclear energy in the middle of a city of three million made Groves very nervous. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z As the search proceeded, it became more obvious that solving the mystery of nuclear structure required probes of higher energies than nature provides. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Government spending on nuclear weapons research was running about $ 150 million a year, Bradbury estimated, about three times its rate prior to the establishment of Livermore. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Lawrence’s results bore important implications for nuclear physics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Could a rare but natural event, the impact of a sizable cometary fragment, trigger a nuclear war? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In nuclear physics, it’s the time it takes for unstable atoms to lose energy by emitting radiation. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z In K-capture, the nucleus absorbs one of the two electrons from its innermost electron “shell”— the “K” shell—thereby transforming a nuclear proton into a neutron. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The sheer power of nuclear weapons themselves, any one of which could destroy an entire city, established a new principle for military conflict, dubbed "mutual assured destruction," or "MAD." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z J. Robert Oppenheimer made many enemies with his persistent critique of US nuclear policy and the rush to the Super, but none as implacable as Lewis L. Strauss. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Comparable economies of expression can be obtained by comparing the high safety index associated with nuclear power with the relatively low safety index for burning coal. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z That year, its research in lightweight thermonuclear bombs came together with the navy’s urgent desire for a nuclear ballistic missile that could be launched from a forthcoming class of submarines with unprecedented range. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z You could no more imagine a season of Ebola flu than you could imagine a nuclear war. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A new kind of competition between Russia and the United States took shape that fall, a nuclear arms race that quickly raised the stakes of the Cold War to unforeseen and terrifying heights. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “It is possible to say unequivocally,” he stated, “that nuclear weapons tests carried out at the present time do not constitute a health hazard to the human population.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z As explained above, scholars cannot even agree on the basics, such as the existence of private property, nuclear families and monogamous relationships. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s a nuclear bunker under Marks & Spencer that’s only open to shareholders. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Lloyd: How long do you think a nuclear bomb would last? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Feynman would have to go there, inspect the factory, and help them prevent a catastrophic nuclear accident. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Several times during the missile crisis, accidents or misunderstandings threatened to trigger a sudden nuclear incident. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z As these contracted, and the atoms within them collided with one another, the temperature of the gas would increase, until eventually it became hot enough to start nuclear fusion reactions. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The news of the Soviet nuclear test set off a panic inside the American government. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z If Prescott is right, in an age of nuclear weapons and effective contraceptives, child abuse and severe sexual repression are crimes against humanity. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The president himself did not need the Bravo results to make him sensitive to the international drive for a test ban and nuclear disarmament. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z While students and teachers hoped their desks and basements would stand up to the power of a nuclear blast, the country’s leaders also prepared for a possible attack—in high style. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z He'd helped to broker the Paris Agreement on climate change, brought tens of thousands of troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan, and led the effort to effectively shut down Iran's nuclear program. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The study concluded that the effect on Americans of radioactive emissions from nuclear tests was vastly outweighed by their exposure to diagnostic X-rays and other common sources. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z If so, then the culprits were still at large—and still able to steal American nuclear secrets and pass them on to the Russians. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z After another ludicrously brief interval it was joined by electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces–the stuff of physics. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Since such stars with higher temperatures and pressures run rapidly through their store of nuclear fuel, their lifetimes are much shorter than the Sun’s. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z At some point earlier, Barack had received the authorization codes that would allow him to access the country’s nuclear arsenal and a briefing on the protocols for using them. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “We might have. If it was that, surrender, or start a nuclear war,” says Gale. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Teller’s viewpoint was shared by Lewis Strauss, who was struggling at the White House to hold the line against Stassen’s lobbying for an international agreement on nuclear weapons. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z What they discovered were new examples of nuclear isomerism, in which isotopes of identical mass numbers and changes show dramatically different radioactive characteristics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But Dad’s main interest was energy: thermal energy, nuclear energy, solar energy, electrical energy, and energy from the wind. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The government’s enormous role in research, especially in nuclear physics, made many scientists uneasy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Marie Curie and the Joliots proposed a neutron even heavier than Chadwick’s, at a value that solved numerous riddles of nuclear activity in one stroke. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Then he rummaged through the cabinets and took out enough chemicals to create a small nuclear bomb. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z It was what I’d always pictured being fried in a nuclear blast would be like. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z B-52 bombers were detected moving out of hangars, carrying nuclear weapons. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Eager to jump into what was now the hottest line of research in nuclear physics, Brady checked out a lump of lithium from the Chemistry Department storeroom. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z From Mayes with the linebackers, filling up an entire blackboard with defenses and read responsibilities that looked like an equation for nuclear fusion. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z On the contrary, there is an extremely wide range of experience—with nuclear accelerators and atomic clocks, for example—in precise quantitative agreement with special relativity. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In a full nuclear exchange, in the paroxysm of thermonuclear war, the equivalent of a million Hiroshima bombs would be dropped all over the world. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The strong nuclear force has a curious property called confinement: it always binds particles together into combinations that have no color. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Far from giving up on the “humanitarian” H-bomb, Strauss redoubled his efforts on its behalf in his role of Eisenhower administration spokesman on the technicalities of nuclear policy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The purpose of these bases can be none other than to provide a nuclear strike capability against the Western Hemisphere. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z For example, some evolutionary psychologists argue that ancient foraging bands were not composed of nuclear families centred on monogamous couples. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I heard new vocabulary: nuclear bomb, radioactive fallout, bomb shelter. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “I remember driving up from Palo Alto to San Francisco with L. W. Alvarez and Dr. Vannevar Bush when we discussed Oppenheimer’s activities in the nuclear weapons program,” he stated. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I say, “Meaning if you were in the room with The Button, you know, the end of the world nuclear bomb button, just you and it, man and button, you’d press it? Just like that.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z The Physical Review soon acceded to a system by which it would accept articles on nuclear reactions but keep them in a vault, to be published after the conclusion of the war. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Eventually the time will come when the solar interior is all carbon and oxygen, when at the prevailing temperatures and pressures no further nuclear reactions can occur. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But their pleas went unheeded; the prospect of a national strategic advantage galvanized both the U.S.S.R. and the United States, and the nuclear arms race began. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z America's nuclear gambit had kept Stalin in check, but the crisis in Berlin underscored the need to anticipate the USSR's next move. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The cyclotron was about to secure an international reputation as an indispensable tool of nuclear science. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Most radar transmissions are for military purposes; they scan the skies in constant fear of a massive launch of missiles with nuclear warheads, an augury fifteen minutes early of the end of human civilization. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The Soviets' first nuclear test presented a vexing question for Agent Robert Lamphere. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z For Livermore, this was the worst of all possible worlds, for it gave new life to a campaign to end nuclear testing. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It put me in mind of those nuclear power plants where blase technicians had grown so weary of false alarms that they’d begun to miss the real ones, with profound consequences. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “You could double the number of troops and that would keep things quieter—until they left. You could use nuclear weapons and kill all the people. I wouldn’t call that a win.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z On September 23, 1949, a news flash turned up the political heat in the debate over nuclear policy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Do you think that history professors chat about the reasons for World War One when they meet for lunch, or that nuclear physicists spend their coffee breaks at scientific conferences talking about quarks? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z And could the United States glean enough intelligence from its $20 million device to head off its Soviet adversary and avert a nuclear war? Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Discussions about the control of nuclear arms and use of the bomb on Japan had been going on since 1943. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Russia responds by launching a nuclear missile at Universal Studios Florida, proclaiming that if they can’t visit the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, no one can. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The energy released was equivalent to that of a 4-megaton nuclear explosion. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I shut my eyes and felt a force like a nuclear explosion blister my skin and crack my lips. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Instead, Voyager relies on a small nuclear power plant, drawing hundreds of watts from the radioactive decay of a pellet of plutonium. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z His theme was the need for “candor” from political leaders about the dangers of nuclear proliferation and the necessity of international disarmament. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z For instance, the enormous investments made in nuclear weapons during World War II and in airplanes and trucks during World War I launched whole new fields of technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The whole environment was about as healthy as a nuclear blast zone. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z But his efforts would link his name forever with the issue of nuclear proliferation and cast a shadow over his scientific legacy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z We can’t restrain him when he’s angry—and he has his hand on the nuclear button’—and Ho Chi Minh himself will be in Paris in two days begging for peace.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Staggering from the examination room, Livingston sought out Lawrence to warn that he almost certainly would be refused his doctorate, due to his failure to demonstrate a grasp of basic nuclear physics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Heck, Percy kind of liked the coach’s idea of using it as a missile and sending Gaea up in a godly nuclear mushroom cloud. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z But with both superpowers now holding nuclear weapons, the stakes had gotten much higher and the battlefield even larger. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Those were the moments when I imagined an accidental nuclear test bomb landing right smack-dab on Lily, Arkansas. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Every thinking person fears nuclear war, and every technological state plans for it. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah. I couldn’t come up with anything good for it....Thought ‘nuclear’ would be too much...” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Germany had dominated science in the early twentieth century: it had been the crucible of atomic physics, quantum mechanics, nuclear chemistry, physiology, and biochemistry. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The idea he put forth was that a testing moratorium would halt research into making H-bombs safer, thereby leaving the United States with an obsolete “dirty” nuclear arsenal. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The United States and Britain could not hope to keep a monopoly on nuclear technology for more than a few years, they warned. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “I didn’t have a cell phone, I’d never texted. He might as well have been talking about nuclear physics.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The Capitol, like 13 during the Dark Days, finds itself completely cut off from outside help as it holds the threat of nuclear attack over its enemies. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “Insolence, ignorance, ignoble, Chernobyl. Don’t go nuclear, sir—the crew can’t survive the radiation.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Generators flooded and shut down, and the reactors overheated, resulting in total nuclear meltdown. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z One of his first jobs out of college was to study explosion rings at the Yucca Flats nuclear test site in Nevada. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The roots of the meeting had been planted more than two years earlier by the discovery of nuclear fission. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I mean she was very negative about the whole thing, shaking her head from side to side; she did not approve of the use of nuclear tactical weapons at all. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Did they have monogamous relationships and nuclear families? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Intelligent beings can solve problems better, live longer and leave more offspring; until the invention of nuclear weapons, intelligence powerfully aided survival. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The talks went on for three or four weekends with me discussing various nuclear yields and how the bombs worked and frankly how insane it all was, and she was so kind to me. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Fie continued to provide Segre with metal scraps and even acceded to Segre’s request to irradiate a quantity of uranium oxide mailed from Italy so that he could continue searching for nuclear reactions. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The potential enemy is assured that if the limit is transgressed, nuclear war will follow. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When the milk in Oregon is tainted by the radiation eruption of a Soviet nuclear reactor, we are forced to see our interdependence. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z However, the discovery of the neutron and of nuclear forces knocked that one on the head too. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Its protection meant pursuing the most advanced nuclear technology that could be exploited for the purpose. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Where his eyes should’ve been, there was only fire, empty sockets glowing with miniature nuclear explosions. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z It assumes the existence of a nuclear fusion reactor— something much safer as well as more efficient than existing fission power plants. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The commission’s most important bequest from the Pentagon’s nuclear energy apparatus was the Manhattan District’s network of atomic labs, which Groves had kept intact after the war. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Where his eyes should’ve been, miniature spheres of fire boiled like nuclear explosions. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z While American officials knew that Soviet troops had already landed on Cuba to help Castro's government, they had no idea that Khrushchev was quietly assembling a nuclear arsenal on the Caribbean island. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z So we mixed up a batch of what Brian called nuclear fuel, pouring different liquids into a can. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z For the first time since the days of the Cuban Missile Crisis, it seemed to Kremlin officials that America had revived the threat of actual nuclear war. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “Fly, like, in an airplane, which you were warned never to do lest Zeus strike you out of the sky, and carrying a weapon that has more destructive power than a nuclear bomb?” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z He would be the lone American in attendance this time, rubbing shoulders and debating the fine points of nuclear physics with the most glittering stars of European science. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Lawrence countered that Chicago’s experience with large-scale nuclear research was meager compared with that of the Rad Lab, which had support facilities to spare. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The United States had installed Jupiter medium-range missiles, topped with nuclear warheads, along the Turkish-Russian border, putting them within easy range of Moscow. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z One fragment, known as Nucleus G, struck with the force of about six million megatons–seventy-five times more than all the nuclear weaponry in existence. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The women arrived in a small room and climbed into a small tube, called a nuclear counter, that provided little room to move. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z His angry roar rolled across the plains like a nuclear blast. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Such a cutting or fission of atomic nuclei occurs in nuclear weapons and conventional nuclear power plants, although it is not carbon that is split. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps the Cambridge band was communal while the one at Oxford was based on nuclear families. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Famine, war, nuclear winter, black holes, or coronal mass ejections. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z They had some of their military resources situated on the outskirts of the Capitol itself—nuclear missiles, aircraft, troops — but a significant chunk of their power was now under an enemy’s control. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z He worked, after graduating from college, for Westinghouse, building nuclear submarines. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Like nuclear fusion, it’s not easy to explain but it had an enormous effect. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The helium nuclei will be jammed together still more tightly, so much so that they begin to stick together, the hooks of their short-range nuclear forces becoming engaged despite the mutual electrical repulsion. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The cometary impact and fireball would simulate all effects of a one- megaton nuclear burst, including the mushroom cloud, with two exceptions: there would be no gamma radiation or radioactive fallout. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The harvest of this upside-down approach to nuclear research now lay before them. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The government was always testing nuclear bombs in the desert near the ranch, Mom said. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z At the time that Alpher, Bethe, and Gamow wrote their paper, not much was known about the nuclear reactions of protons and neutrons. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Murray also advocated development of a “clean bomb”—a device that could somehow deliver the destructive force of a nuclear blast minus the fallout. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The voice emanating from the aluminum speaker grid was as serious as a nuclear winter. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z For the first time since Eisenhower took office, the views of Strauss, Lawrence, and Teller were balanced by learned voices on the opposite side of the nuclear debate. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z At the agency’s inception, scientists had hoped it would serve as a civilian bulwark against military monopolization of nuclear research. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z US officials had known that the Soviets would eventually be able to build a nuclear weapon, but the nation's top intelligence experts estimated that the Soviets' nuclear capability was still four years away. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z To balance the electrical repulsion, pieces of nuclear matter would have to be brought very dose together so that the short- range nuclear forces are engaged. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z However, the radiation produced in a nuclear war, among its many other effects, debilitates the body’s immunological system, causing a deterioration of our ability to resist disease. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z For example, four Russian submarines prowled the waters near Cuba, each one carrying a torpedo loaded with a nuclear weapon. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He washes his own equipment and uniforms after every practice and game, though, and he takes showers that seem like the kind that workers get after there’s a chemical leak at a nuclear power plant. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z From those nuclear areas, hunter-gatherers of some neighboring areas learned food production, and peoples of other neighboring areas were replaced by invading food producers from the nuclear areas—again at widely differing times. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The bond between Ernest Lawrence and Robert Oppenheimer would influence the development of nuclear physics itself, allied strategy in World War II, and civilian and military nuclear policy through the postwar years. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z They focus on the North’s chronic food shortages, human rights violations, military provocations, nuclear program, and dependence on China. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z It’s nowhere near as cool as our real bug-out, though—a hidden safe house our family built deep in the woods in the event of a nuclear attack, or EMP, or any other end-of-the-world scenario. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z She looks like she’s holding in a dictionary of bad words or a nuclear war. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z That was about three tons of monkey meat—a biological nuclear reactor having a core meltdown. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This involved bombarding samples with neutrons in a small nuclear reactor and carefully counting the gamma rays that were emitted; it was extremely finicky work. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z China, taking advantage of the chaos, launches its full arsenal of nuclear weapons at key US targets, initiating a full-blown thermonuclear war that ultimately renders the planet a desolate wasteland incapable of supporting life. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z He held a wooden club about the size of a nuclear warhead, with six-inch spikes bristling at the business end. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z We have reached the point where proliferation of nuclear arms and resistance to nuclear disarmament threaten every person on the planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The rather chimerical notion of a nuclear bomb without radioactive side effects had emerged in late 1954 and had been embraced by Livermore, where it fit nicely with the lab’s brief to explore new ideas. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The dust put into the air in a full nuclear exchange would reflect sunlight and cool the Earth a little. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “This image reminds me of the human costs of war and why no one has ever used nuclear weapons again. We’re done.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z “Any undergraduate could see that nuclear physics using artificial beams of high-energy protons and helium ions was such a field, and ... he should stake out a territory there to work and grow in.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The nation’s entire nuclear arsenal was dependent on only two sources: a single rapidly depleting mine in the Belgian Congo and another in Canada, near the Arctic Circle. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Oppie spoke in abstract terms because, as he acknowledged, the government’s demand for nuclear secrecy required him to gloss over the horrific details. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Now we are wondering whether nuclear weapons will proliferate around the world by the same often-violent process, from the eight countries that presently possess them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Kennedy held out until March 2, 1962, when he announced in a televised address that the United States would resume nuclear tests in the atmosphere. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In the close quarters of an American nuclear family, their mother's prodigious energy was becoming a real drain on their self-determination. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z She didn’t give up on me, even though I knew as much about being Jewish as I know about building a nuclear power station out of Popsicle sticks. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z As the sensitivity of the neutrino telescope improves, it may become possible to probe nuclear fusion in the deep interiors of the nearby stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z North Korea had just conducted a nuclear test, and Barack was soon to leave for Egypt to deliver a major address meant to extend an open hand to Muslims around the world. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Women like me, with a husband, a child, have been referred to with some scorn as nukes, for nuclear family. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z And he likely had access to the intelligence the United States desired most: information about the USSR's nuclear missile program. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z A new race to build nuclear weapons pushed America and the Soviet Union toward a standoff that threatened not just the two superpowers but the entire world. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Would they be any protection against a nuclear attack? Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z As Lawrence had pointed out to Alvarez, outstanding results in nuclear physics were now emerging steadily from the Rad Lab. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The advocates of nuclear disarmament seem to believe that, if they could achieve their aim, war would become tolerable and decent. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z James Fisk, who supervised the American side of the talks with a diplomatic skill unexpected of a scientific appointee, brought home an agreement designating the detection of nuclear bomb tests as “technically feasible.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z This place feels like the eerie, abandoned suburban neighborhoods that surround nuclear power plant leaks. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “What if German scientists succeed in making a nuclear bomb before we even investigate possibilities?” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Fearing a first-strike nuclear attack by the United States, the Soviet Union resolved not to let its guard down. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Many scholars vehemently reject this theory, insisting that both monogamy and the forming of nuclear families are core human behaviours. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It had taken Joseph Stalin’s physicists just four years to reach nuclear parity with the United States—about the time frame predicted by Robert Oppenheimer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z June was hard at work on her project for the Resilient Helenwood art show, her excitement at nearly nuclear levels. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The trips were disguised as visits to the Alacrans’ nuclear power plant or the opium processing plant—a stinking, clanking horror even an eejit would find unbearable. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He later described it as “a nuclear bit of e-mail,” given the chain of events it subsequently triggered. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Percy was an ardent opponent of the Vietnam War, a supporter of international nuclear non-proliferation, a backer of federal consumer protection efforts and tougher enforcement of laws against drug abuse. Former U.S. Sen. Charles Percy dies 2011-09-17T12:43:00Z North Korea is believed to be readying a third nuclear test, based on intelligence satellite images and a past pattern of rocket launches followed by tests. Secure despite rocket fiasco, N.Korea's Kim lauds military 2012-04-15T08:57:00Z That monumental discovery sparked decades of epic debates about the vastness and origins of the universe, and they involved a clash of titans, the Russian-American nuclear physicist George Gamow and the British astrophysicist Fred Hoyle. When the Big Bang Was Just a Theory 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z If the pall cast over previous generations was the pervasive fear of nuclear war, today’s all-consuming global anxiety is the threat of deadly weather. ‘The Ash Family’ Is a Debut Novel for Our Climate-Anxious Age 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z The task of pulling the world back from nuclear war and annihilation falls to the lubricious Walter, who is irresponsible but cunning and determined. Review: ‘The Brink’ Stars Tim Robbins as a Sex-Crazed Secretary of State 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z The themes that run through both the plays we have chosen and the ones that we didn't are: immigration, the threat of nuclear war, loneliness and class. Lost short plays by Harold Pinter and John Mortimer to be revived 2013-05-11T23:06:33Z But he is not someone who does anything in small doses: “Nought to nuclear” is more his style. Elton John Puts Down in Words How Wonderful (and Weird) Life Has Been 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z It features images of Trump amid scenes of nuclear war, drug use and riots. Trump and ‘Morning Joe’: How a long and ugly feud just got even uglier 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z Another screen will host a revival of “The Atomic Cafe,” an assemblage examining the United States’ history as a nuclear power through a surreal combination of news clips, educational films and commercials. 4 Film Series to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z So there was perhaps some renewed interest in the excesses of the doomsday preppers, each of whom is expecting a different type of calamity: economic collapse, nuclear war, biological attack. ArtsBeat: Channel Surfing: 'Doomsday Preppers,' After the Hurricane 2012-11-14T04:00:36Z The District of Columbia took the lead, explains David Krugler, whose book, “This Is Only a Test,” tells the story of nuclear preparation in the nation’s capital. This nuclear fallout shelter was untouched for 55 years. It might come in handy now. 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z On his first deployment to Iraq, in February 2003, he served in the Marine nuclear, biological and chemical unit, looking for weapons of mass destruction. Life and death in the US Marines 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z Development of the British atomic bomb took place here, but it was still a shock to see an obsolete nuclear bomb on the floor of the information center. Footsteps: Rambling With W. G. Sebald in East Anglia 2011-04-22T18:55:00Z Those horrific events in August 1945 were — and remain — the world’s only episode of nuclear warfare. Yayoi Kusama at the Broad: Lots of mirrors, not so much artistic reflection 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z Recently, Warner Bros., perhaps inspired by the underlying message of "Barbie," apologized for tweets that made light of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, just days before the anniversary of these events. "Barbie" vs. "Oppenheimer": U.S. foreign policy has a lot to learn from this summer’s blockbusters 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z The brilliantly twisted thing about “Charolais” is that what Siobhan wants, ultimately, is a snug little nuclear family, and what could be more proper than that? Review: In ‘Charolais,’ Competing With His Mother and His Cow 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z “Our two leaders have decided to significantly strengthen extended deterrence of our two countries against North Korea’s nuclear and missile threats,” Yoon said at the joint news conference Wednesday. At the state dinner for South Korea, two nations toast an anniversary 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z Russia and Ukraine scattered sunflower seeds in a field at the Pervomaysk missile base in southern Ukraine to mark the country's complete nuclear disarmament. How sunflowers became a symbol of resistance across Ukraine and its allies 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z Some analysts say Iran, which denies accusations that it seeking nuclear weapons, could be in a position to make them next year. EU bans Iranian oil, Tehran responds with threats 2012-01-23T12:51:00Z If you grew up during the Cold War, the words “This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System” were a reminder that nuclear apocalypse was the real-life monster in the closet. 5 Truly Terrifying TV Moments 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z Terrible things happen in and around the margins of his songs — nuclear bombs; fentanyl overdoses; bottomless longing — but never without the possibility of renewal and carrying on. Alex G and the Art of Interesting Choices 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z Next door was the sleek showcase of the Russian Federation, whose president didn’t bother to attend but whose nuclear energy company served cappuccinos. What was COP26? A slog, a spectacle — and, for one youthful delegation, an opportunity. 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z The core will compress and heat up further, but there isn’t enough mass to trigger any more nuclear reactions. When the universe began 2012-07-22T12:00:00Z Not even a year after the devastating tsunami in Japan that caused a meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant, three films about the aftermath were screened here. Film: At Berlinale, Something for Everyone 2012-02-17T17:13:20Z A Bright, it seems is someone who uses magic, a wand like a nuclear weapon that grants wishes. Will Smith Is a Cop in a World of Orcs and Elves in the 'Bright' Trailer 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z “Russian assassins have developed toxic materials truly worthy of a nuclear superpower, cooking up new radioactive poisons that cause massive organ failure,” Herman writes, with something like awe. Hunting Down the Best True-Crime Tales 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z While on a peacetime mission to test new cloaking technology, the U.S. nuclear submarine Colorado receives an order to fire nukes against Pakistan. TV Tonight: Last Resort 2012-09-27T12:00:08Z A little groundhog peeking out of a bomb crater to see if there’s six more weeks of nuclear winter or if, perhaps, something can grow in this hole. Just Tune In. Please. He?ll Do Anything. 2010-09-24T23:26:00Z Collages, sculptures and prints commemorate Pripyat, the Ukrainian city that was built to house the workers at the ill-fated Chernobyl nuclear plant, while a new commission documents the inoperative nuclear plant in San Onofre. Datebook: Artist comedy, a Chinatown bar rebuilt and everything Nagel 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z He admitted that he was scared about the possibility of nuclear war. In Ukraine, a radioactive nuclear ghost town near Chernobyl is a hot destination 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z Some predict that the number of stepfamilies will eventually exceed nuclear families. Navigating the tricky waters of being a stepdad 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z He came upon a news article about the continued cleanup efforts at the Chernobyl nuclear reactor that was the site of the 1986 disaster. ‘The Last of Us’ Continues Craig Mazin’s Hollywood Ascent 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z The Doctor’s other gadget is the sonic screwdriver. A Dalek is an alien creature that, having survived a nuclear apocalypse, must live inside a robot; they are bad. Doctor…Who?: A Beginner’s Guide to Doctor Who 2013-11-22T19:07:05Z Millions of evangelical Christians seem ready to endure the terrors of the destruction of the planet, in a nuclear fashion or otherwise, because it’s the promised gateway to an infinitely better world. America’s psychic numbing: Why we’re so obsessed with “apocalypse” 2014-02-26T13:30:00Z The days of the nuclear family as ideal consumption unit are over. Ewan Morrison: what I'm thinking about ... why capitalism wants us to stay single 2012-08-11T12:01:34Z For example, he’s considering a lesson on Godzilla where they watch the 1950s version and the 2014 adaptation and pivot the lesson around that - talking about the effects but also the themes of nuclear holocaust. NC dad takes pop culture teaching to next level 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z That in turn led to a blockage at California's San Onofre nuclear energy plant, a second major source of power to the San Diego area, San Diego Gas and Electric said. Huge blackout hits Southern California, Mexican border 2011-09-09T05:27:00Z Having a nuclear capability multiplies your enemies, as Tehran is learning currently. Letters: Tory plans for a culture of cuts 2010-10-01T18:13:00Z Sherwin, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, has comprehensively analyzed the impact of nuclear weapons from the end of World War II to the Cuban missile crisis. New in Paperback: ‘How Beautiful We Were’ and ‘No One Is Talking About This’ 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z I was trying to understand how things worked–how things were put together, everything from airplane engines to rockets and nuclear power plants. Inside Microsoft Mogul Paul Allen's Multi-Million Dollar WWII Airplane Collection 2013-06-04T14:00:33Z David Palmer has overcome attempts on his life, a disastrous marriage, a duplicitous cabinet and a nuclear attack. Vote your cast: who is the greatest fictional US president? 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z But we listen to nuclear pop for different reasons. Perspective | Can a pop song prepare us for the end of the world? 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z Days later, a senior North Korean nuclear envoy traveled to the U.S. to attend a university forum while the U.S. and North Korea held more talks in Beijing to finalize the food aid. Photo show offers rare glimpse of life in N. Korea 2012-03-16T01:57:08Z "They are developing a new type of nuclear reactor that uses nuclear waste," said Noer. Gabby Douglas, Adele among brightest young stars -Forbes magazine 2012-12-17T17:11:10Z My book, "Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years," focuses on the brothers' heroic struggle with the national security state to ease America away from the nuclear brink and end the Cold War. The coverup continues: The Kennedys in Hollywood 2011-04-01T14:01:00Z He believes "Voices of Chernobyl" was "an exception because it's about nuclear power, so not a specifically Russian problem." 7 reasons why the winner of the Nobel Prize in literature is a Belarusian you don't know 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Equally, the scientists were right to foresee that the US could never hold the "nuclear secret" and that nuclear weapons would usher in a new age of mutually assured destruction. Inside the Centre: The Life of J Robert Oppenheimer by Ray Monk – review 2012-12-16T00:05:05Z As America’s influence recedes, China is stepping in, though officials will doubtless keep a wary eye on Pakistan’s nuclear weapons. Geopolitical friends 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Whether it is opposing South African apartheid or protesting the nuclear arms race, Pastor Tim said, Paige is always “challenging, questioning, yelling!” 'The Americans' recap: Fight over Paige's future intensifies 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Some sources of injustice endure but there's not much call right now for songs about apartheid, the Troubles or the threat of nuclear war. Why pop stars won't be attacking the monarchy this jubilee 2012-06-01T12:01:08Z A September 2007 strike by Israel that destroyed a nuclear reactor being built in the Syrian desert was accompanied by an ingenious cyberattack that blinded the country’s air defenses. Obama Sees Limited Options for Cyberwar in Syria 2014-02-24T22:03:46Z “With the nuclear accident,” he notes, “everything changed.” Critic?s Notebook: Music From Japan at Merkin Concert Hall 2012-02-17T00:37:24Z The pressure is so strong in conservative circles to “protect” traditional family structures that any issue at all can be turned into concern over the nuclear family. Gay couples have happier kids 2012-09-04T01:00:00Z He notes that what he calls the “nuclear priesthood” in Israel answers only to itself. Books of The Times: Vague, Opaque and Ambiguous: Israel?s Hush-Hush Nuclear Policy 2010-10-13T23:25:00Z The Keystone State was also the scene of the country’s biggest nuclear scare. ‘Heat & Light’ is the best fracking novel ever 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z For a 1964 project, “Shelter Plan,” Hi Red Center personnel measured people for one-person nuclear bomb shelters, referring to realities that the government wanted to forget. Art Review: ‘Tokyo 1955-1970: A New Avant-Garde’ at MoMA 2012-11-15T22:48:46Z Since the October 1962 near miss of a holocaust, most global leaders have prioritized arms control to reduce the likelihood of nuclear war. Coming Close to Nuclear Holocaust 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z Caravaggio says it as he attempts to explain why Kip has found the nuclear bomb so upsetting. Booker club: The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje 2011-03-04T11:00:46Z But in its zeal to check nuclear proliferation, America—along with Israel—opened up yet another theatre of war: cyberspace. Turning worm 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z These writers interrogate the false security of nuclear households and suburban communities, exploring the cultural conditions that lead people into difficult situations. Beyond "girl gone mad melodrama" — reframing female anger in psychological thrillers 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z Snowstorm, financial crash, nuclear war – would you be ready? Worst case scenario: the ‘preppers’ gearing up for cataclysm | Alex Moshakis 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z And in Washington state, the toxic legacy of the Hanford nuclear reservation is the chief reminder of that threat. In deft, distressing ‘Apocalypse Factory,’ Seattle author details Hanford’s role in the dawn of the nuclear age 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z And the whole clocktower sequence at the end wasn't there: it was going to be the radiation from an explosion at a nuclear testing site that would power the time machine back to 1985. How we made Back to the Future 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z Obama wantsIsrael to hold off on attacking Iran's nuclear sites, insisting there is still time for sanctions and diplomacy to work. Obama, Netanyahu face struggle over Iran 'red lines' 2012-03-05T13:09:00Z “If the president had his way,” Henry Kissinger told aides, “there would be a nuclear war each week!” On the Lam With Timothy Leary 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z Wilson had investigated Saddam's alleged pursuit of enriched uranium, and Plame had been tracking aluminium tubes that were supposedly bought by Iraq as part of its nuclear weapons programme. Fair Game: Free agents 2011-03-06T22:30:01Z Sunshine lights up the foyers with a refulgence that is almost nuclear. Harpa concert hall 2011-08-27T23:05:00Z Steve Bug, a celebrated D.J. from Berlin, was supposed to play a 2 a.m. set in the sleek, dark gray club located in a former nuclear fallout shelter. Next Stop: Belgrade Music Scene: Pop, Folk, Electronica and Politics 2010-06-10T18:37:00Z She accused Paul of espousing a "dangerous" position on restraining Iran's nuclear program, noting the Iranian president's threat to "wipe our ally Israel off the face of the map." Gingrich, Romney set sights on Obama 2011-12-16T06:10:00Z The longstanding hostility between India and Pakistan could erupt into a nuclear war that would end life on Earth as we know it. They really want a theocracy: The GOP candidates who want to make you bow to their lord 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z To hazards like icecap cracks, nuclear leaks and rising seas, add another environmental threat: language fallout. Raymond Pettibon, Wielding an Art Mightier Than the Sword 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Mr. Kaufmann is scheduled to take the title role here as — in Des McAnuff’s production, shared with the English National Opera — an aging nuclear physicist in the aftermath of Hiroshima. The New Season: Tchaikovsky, Dress Codes, And 3-D Opera 2011-09-16T19:50:18Z Security Council adopted new sanctions against North Korea on Saturday, a measure aimed at pressuring the country to stop its nuclear program and recent missile tests. ‘We’re All Going to Die.’ Stephen Colbert Talks Trump’s Threats Against North Korea 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z He concludes that “the real lesson of the Cuban missile crisis … is that nuclear armaments create the perils they are deployed to prevent, but are of little use in resolving them.” Coming Close to Nuclear Holocaust 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z Facing down bitter criticism from the American right – including several Fox-type talking heads who are still active – Reagan pressed on in pursuit of limitations on, and eventual reductions in, the US’s nuclear arsenal. You're hired! How TV carried Reagan and Trump to the White House 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z Nonfiction writers have made riveting narrative from sprawling, difficult material: The Irish Troubles, the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, the history of the Lakota tribe. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Causes range from nuclear war or spoiling the ecosystem to voraciously unstoppable man-made black holes or ravenous nano-plagues. How will the world end? 2012-06-17T19:00:00Z Over the course of his 11 years as a correspondent with ABC News, Mr. Muir has covered a number of big stories, including the Fukushima nuclear disaster and the Arab Spring. ABC’s Bet on David Muir of ‘World News Tonight’ 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z Homer might be Republican, but then again Homer is a man so stupid that he once caused a nuclear meltdown in a van that contained no nuclear material whatsoever. Ted Cruz is right: Homer Simpson is a Republican. Sadly, he's also an idiot 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z The movie, produced by Time Warner Inc's Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures, is a remake of the classic 1954 Japanese film about a giant lizard created when U.S. nuclear weapons testing goes awry. 'Godzilla' tramples rivals with summer season's first monster hit 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z Now, some of the former hostages wonder whether their cause might come up in the ongoing talks over curbing Iran’s nuclear ambitions, whether compensating them could be part of an ultimate diplomatic deal. The endless siege: The Tehran hostages are still seeking compensation and closure 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z The Dalek was revealed to be not a machine but a protective shell in which a mutant creature – the result of the genetically disastrous consequences of nuclear war – was housed. Raymond Cusick 2013-02-24T18:19:55Z The book goes on to explore the fates of both countries through their acquisition of nuclear weapons, border clashes and Bollywood. Divide and rue 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z D'Souza argues that the president has emasculated NASA, refused to take a "meaningful step" against Iran's nuclear ambitions and is willing to let Argentina reclaim the Falkland Islands. '2016: Obama's America': Strident film looks at president's roots 2012-08-23T20:54:04Z New car plants, schools and universities, new nuclear power stations, Trident jets and blue Pullman trains. A British fleet with no aircraft carrier. Unthinkable! 2010-10-23T06:00:00Z And high-level talks have led the reclusive North to pledge to reopen investigations into the fate of all missing Japanese in return for Tokyo easing sanctions imposed over Pyongyang's nuclear and missile program. Japanese woman clings to hope that identical twin alive in North Korea 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z It began in the immediate aftermath of the atomic bomb blasts, when U.S. officials advised Americans to "leave all problems surrounding the bomb to political, scientific, and military leaders — the nuclear priesthood." Susan Southard's 'Nagasaki' faces nuclear horror as the 70th anniversary of the bombing approaches 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z Backer wants Republicans to put together a platform including research — both public and private — into clean energy solutions like carbon capture technology and nuclear power. Meet the conservatives who want to fight climate change — their way 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z “He has his own career, his own life and a stable nuclear family with universal, middle-class aspirations,” he said. Film: Buddies Cracking Jokes and Heads 2010-02-19T23:52:00Z It’s got a cocky, star-spangled, wide-angle feel, as if a subversive young novelist had decided to rewrite a Tom Clancy thriller after first piloting some nuclear submarines as a gonzo practice drill. Books of The Times: What?s a Submarine Officer Doing in the Desert? 2010-09-21T21:23:00Z What if you took a dip in a nuclear reactor’s storage pool, where discarded fuel is kept for years until it’s not so radioactive anymore? XKCD: When Physics Is Funny 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z The bomb looms large for these children of the atomic age: one brags about his nuclear button, the other consecrates the Trinity test as the original sin of the twentieth century. Donald Trump’s America and the Visions of David Lynch 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z In 1988, he made To Shoot Without Shooting, a co-production with Shanghai Animation Film Studio, in which an ambitious Chinese archer's quest for perfection presents an allegory for the nuclear arms race. Kihachiro Kawamoto obituary 2010-09-05T16:44:00Z Advertisement Advertisement So, are these food start-ups good for the home, or yet another setback for the traditional nuclear family? Meal-Delivery Start-Ups Take Aim at Your Dinner 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z But energy-rich Iran denies this, saying it needs nuclear technology to generate electricity. Iran says oil ban will not halt nuclear work 2012-02-04T13:45:12Z Ms. Havinga said the team realized the importance of documenting the event — the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl in 1986 — and selected work from up-and-coming photographers and well-known artists. A Boston Photo Exhibition Focuses on a Disaster in Japan 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z “At this point, they’ve found documents in so many places, it’s like we’re playing Clue. It’s like, ‘North Korea’s nuclear codes in the garage with the Corvette!’” Late Night Chides Biden Over Birthday Gaffe 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z Officials in Iran, which rejects Western allegations it is seeking nuclear weapons, did not respond to requests for comment. The Review Show's move to BBC4: a typical piece of BBC cowardice 2013-02-26T15:41:12Z Iran denies that it is trying to develop nuclear weapons. Netanyahu condemns killing of Saudi journalist but keeps focus on Iran 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z It should be a violation of rights to design or procure, let alone use, a nuclear weapon. Ian McEwan: By the Book 2012-12-06T15:54:37Z They referred to the time of Superman, James Bond and tight nuclear families like the Cleavers, which were all part of the pastiche. At Shanghai Disney Resort, Mulan, Mickey and Dumplings 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z The investigations began in the early 1980s, Doughton recounts, with environmental concerns over the plan to build several nuclear plants under the authority of the Washington Public Power Supply System. ‘Full Rip 9.0’: major Pacific Northwest quake, major shocker 2013-06-13T22:51:16Z This may be a departure from your normal open-door policy, but it will reduce the odds of your Monopoly game going nuclear and cut down on brawling in the breakfast nook. Social Q’s: An Odd Case of Sibling Rivalry – Social Q’s 2012-08-09T20:12:15Z This is the cyber equivalent of a nuclear strike; when electricity stops, then pretty soon everything else does too. John Naughton on the internet of things 2011-03-20T00:05:15Z The 80s turned out to be both the climax and the anticlimax of the cold war – a political conclusion that miraculously sidestepped nuclear war. Acceptable in the 80s 2010-07-29T21:00:00Z “The preservation of the Wendover Air Field and the Enola Gay hangar as emblematic of nuclear warfare seemed to us a historical imperative,” Mr. Fox writes in “Half-Life.” Photographs of Wendover Air Base and Chernobyl 2012-03-10T05:03:24Z Trump won the 2016 election, Nichols writes, because “he connected with a particular kind of voter who believes that knowing about things like America’s nuclear deterrent is just so much pointy-headed claptrap.” ‘The Death of Expertise’ Explores How Ignorance Became a Virtue 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z Drachman, the co-creator of the game, For All Mankind, explains that the nuclear option is supposed to be … well, the nuclear option. Trial and error: Seattle’s board game designers and players work out bugs together with playtests 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z Israel accuses Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons — a charge Iran denies. Israel urges citizens to avoid Gulf, cites Iran threat 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z Eisenhower's singular accomplishment, though, was in his delicate handling of nuclear weapons, whose prohibition was far from preordained at the beginning of his first term. 'Eisenhower: The White House Years': a most accomplished president 2011-11-09T23:04:08Z It’s a continuation of her project created in reaction to the nuclear disaster in Fukushima. What to Look Forward to in the Fall Dance Season 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z You could conceivably consider it a warning about nuclear power, but it’s really about the dangers of seeking adventure in a foreign country and trusting former Soviets. Movie Review: ‘Chernobyl Diaries,’ Co-Produced by Oren Peli 2012-05-25T21:37:16Z He started to go out and protest and he was protesting against nuclear proliferation, immigration issues and for the homeless. Emilio Estevez on making "The Public," a film about dignity, homelessness and libraries 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z The book is not nearly as topical as, say, The Butter Battle Book, a commentary on the nuclear arms race. Lou Dobbs Vs. Kids? Movies: Does Children?s Morality Have a Well-Known Liberal Bias? 2012-02-27T17:09:10Z The alphabet is written on the blackboard and Trump's first-day-at-school present is a special bag with the nuclear codes. Germans snap up Trump wigs for carnival 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z If everyone agrees that marriage benefits society at large, it’s no surprise that married nuclear families are the gold standard against which we are all judged, and against which so many fail. The case against “saving” marriage 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z President Barack Obama opposes a near-term military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Marvel Comics plans wedding for gay hero Northstar 2012-05-22T16:46:00Z On the other, pessimism diverts attention from the lack of cultural encouragement to imagine alternatives beyond the nuclear family household. What is "heteropessimism," and why do men and women suffer from it? 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z The strange thing is that I find it easier to think about nuclear war than climate change. Parenting the climate-change generation 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z But there was Amaryllis Fox, who spent much of her 20s trying to keep nuclear materials out of terrorists’ hands, talking about love and kindness. This C.I.A. Officer Wants to Give Peace a Chance 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z After all, one of his recent cartoons, titled How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Trident, depicted Nick Clegg riding a nuclear bomb, Stetson in hand, declaring: "Feel the power between my legs!" Wills'n'Kate: the comic book 2011-01-16T22:00:00Z And that's true even in "Golden Days" where I used some of the worst images of nuclear war that I could find. Carolyn See's California, as told to Barbara Isenberg 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z Even more unsettling is “Family Romance,” a four-mannequin sculpture of the classic nuclear family — mother, father, sister, brother. Charles Ray: Radical Conservative 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z Suddenly, screens begin showing nuclear explosions, and the giant, troubled face of J Robert Oppenheimer – the physicist who worked on the atomic bomb, then agonised over what he had created. Linkin Park: 'We're famous, but we're not celebrities' 2011-07-07T22:30:00Z Rebecca Zlotowski's picture works best when it's at its most stark and unadorned, when it focuses on the dirty nuts and bolts near the nuclear core. Cannes 2013: Grand Central - first look review 2013-05-19T08:55:28Z It is close to completing a nuclear submarine that will increase its ability to launch a counter strike if it were attacked. India tests nuclear-capable missile that can reach China 2012-04-19T09:16:00Z Additionally, and more worrying to U.S. officials, two different groups of hijackers, one in 1971 and another in 1972, threatened to crash planes into nuclear power plants. D.B. Cooper, the changing nature of hijackings and the foundation for today’s airport security 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z But her appearance here with "Countdown to Zero" and her decision to raise her public profile around the nuclear issue, Wilson said, was purely coincidental: "What are the odds of that happening?" she quipped. Valerie Plame on Naomi Watts and nuclear doom 2010-05-17T19:45:00Z "Maybe if this was a movie nobody liked, they'd have gotten rid of it, because who wants to be the studio that caused a nuclear war?" Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg like that Kim Jong Un doesn't get the joke Is a despot fussing that a nuclear warhead is round at the tip when he wanted it to be pointy funny? 'The Dictator' uses its power for laughs 2012-05-14T22:41:03Z Also screening, but just Friday through Sunday, will be Rogosin's 1966 film "Good Times, Wonderful Times," a collection of footage from around the world inspired by the filmmaker's sense of the dangers of nuclear annihilation. Hughes festival ending; transgender fest begins 2011-05-05T23:58:04Z Relations between Iran and France have grown fraught of late, rattled by the uncertain future of the Iran nuclear accord and French concerns over Tehran’s ballistic missile tests and military activities in the Middle East. In Iran, France blends hard talks with soft power at Louvre exhibit 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z There are good reasons why we don't want everyone to learn nuclear physics, medicine or how financial markets work. Evgeny Morozov: 'We are abandoning all the checks and balances' 2013-03-09T19:20:02Z In some ways, our La Pasionaria of the nether regions is a sweet little girl with a yearning to restore the nuclear family. REVIEW: Wetlands: A Schmutzy Comedy With an Adorable New Star 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z Amid all those horrifying images from Japan of death and destruction and the ominous threat of a nuclear reactor meltdown, viewers hunger for a glimpse of hope and miraculous rescue. The TV Watch: Pillar of Relief Coverage: Americans Reconnected With Anxious Families 2011-03-16T00:33:31Z No matter what nuclear holocaust or plague may occur, this character’s going to wind up scurrying out into the sunlight after everybody else is gone. Q&A: Vince Gilligan on Reviving Saul Goodman in Better Call Saul 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z “Dawn,” the first of her Lilith’s Brood series, is set hundreds of years after a nuclear war made Earth uninhabitable. Review | The weirdly specific mixtape Vol. 2: Close encounters of the tentacled kind 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z It’s a ridiculous sea of cables and dials and switches and a board that looks capable of running a nuclear power plant. Steve Miller cracked the code of 1970s radio. But he’s still raging against the music industry. 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z Now the city, an hour-and-a-half drive from Kiev, is a nuclear ghost town. In Ukraine, a radioactive nuclear ghost town near Chernobyl is a hot destination 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z “Imagine that you stockpile all of the nuclear weapons in one place,” explains Patterson. Espionage Insiders: The Existential Threat 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z The Blacklist The murder of a nuclear scientist from Iran sparks a revenge plot that puts an American in danger in this new episode. Monday's TV Highlights: '15 Songs That Changed Country Music' 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z It does contain some pointed allusions — protesters chanting about a wall, reference to the last leader to use the nuclear arsenal: “Truma-n, or was it Roosevelt?” A new opera about a dictator may or may not be about Trump. It depends whom you ask. 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z Awareness has certainly grown among film and TV executives in recent years: Not everyone in their audience is part of the proverbial ideal 2.5-child nuclear family. Films Like ‘The Boss Baby’ Can Be Painful for Adoptees and Foster Kids 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z It was an opportunity to bring us up to date on whether nuclear weapons should still be in our Top 5 Things to Worry About, but the program is virtually all history lesson. ‘The Bomb’ Helps Return Nukes to the TV Spotlight 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z Some of these villains personified dread of nuclear horror. The top 17 most badass and bizarre Russian villains in pop culture 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z “When Twitter was invented, I bet even they didn’t imagine that it would lead to the brink of nuclear armageddon,” the comedian said Sunday night. John Oliver: Trump and North Korea are “Goading each other toward armageddon” 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z In either case, the caller was told, “There has been a nuclear explosion in Santa Barbara, and all the telephone lines are out.” From “phreaks” to Apple: Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak’s “eureka!” moment 2013-02-16T14:00:00Z As a way to protect him, they in return go nuclear. The Chris Brown problem that never goes away: How he continues to maintain his relevancy and fans 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z I learned this after climbing into a nuclear rocket command silo, 12 floors below ground, and sitting in the same green chair at the same yellow, metal console at which former Soviet officers once presided. In Ukraine, a radioactive nuclear ghost town near Chernobyl is a hot destination 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z That’s the funny thing about nuclear winter: Life goes on, but probably not yours. Perspective | Can a pop song prepare us for the end of the world? 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z It’s just one of many obfuscations, deceptions and outright fabrications recounted by Serhii Plokhy in “Atoms and Ashes,” his frightening new history of nuclear disasters across the world. ‘Atoms and Ashes,’ a Frightening Tour of Six Nuclear Accidents 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z The archetypal example is the nuclear command control codes. Richard Ledgett, NSA deputy chief, thinks he knows Snowden’s true motivations 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z Partly this is out of conviction — Joan was raised by socialist parents and believes that peace will result from Soviet and American nuclear arms balancing each other. Crime fiction: Richard Jury’s return; an unsuspected spy 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z Officials are investigating the events surrounding a power failure at the Byron nuclear reactor, where steam was vented to reduce pressure after it shut down. Byron nuclear plant glitch under investigation 2012-01-31T12:02:00Z But the task force issued recommendations primarily based on keeping nuclear families intact so that children would be safe in their homes, with both of their parents, away from strangers. What '80s kids also remember: On stranger danger, Satanic panic and generations of trickle-down fear 2023-10-21T04:00:00Z By an 8-1 ratio, those surveyed said they believe Tehran is trying to develop nuclear weapons. Poll: Global policy a hit at home 2012-05-18T06:05:00Z In response to postwar nuclear fears, they were copied onto microfilm, which was placed in a bunker below the Black Forest, where it remains, alongside other culturally significant work. Latin Dictionary’s Journey: A to Zythum in 125 Years (and Counting) 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z Now, I don’t expect The Road on network TV–and a power outage is not the same as nuclear winter. A Second Look At: Revolution 2012-10-03T12:00:04Z However, it’s worth noting that the one of the MUTOs immediately attacks a nuclear power plant, while the other, later, attacks a repository of nuclear waste. MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Godzilla’ is an anti-global-warming alarmism blockbuster 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z THE ERA The nuclear fears of the 1950s had paved the way for Godzilla, and those concerns are in evidence here. The Five Ages of King Kong 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z “The greatest danger of nuclear war are these so-called smaller, tactical weapons on ambiguous delivery vehicles,” Weber says. Meet the nuke the U.S. keeps in Europe, waiting to not be used 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z With its breezy high spirits and all-around professionalism, it recaptured the tarnished dream of millions of a happy nuclear family gathered around the electronic hearth in simpler times. Music Review: ‘Jim Caruso’s Cast Party Goes to the Movies!’ in Songbook Series 2014-03-09T21:04:08Z Which would upset Donald Trump, because he wants to be the first to use the nuclear option. Trevor Noah: There Are Worse Things to Be on Twitter Than an Egg 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z The other was Colonel Rudolf Abel, a Soviet secret agent based in the US for 11 years, whose brief was to infiltrate the American nuclear weapons programme. Audiobook roundup - reviews 2012-02-10T22:55:03Z When nuclear paranoia spiked in the early ’60s, Bob Dylan wrote “Masters of War.” Perspective | Can protest rock still make noise in Trump’s America? 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z The Klitschko brothers, the cut-up Vitali and the bashful Wladimir, are endearing and articulate, and the film includes eerie footage of the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, which their father helped to clean up. Critic's Notebook: Changing Lives, One Game at a Time 2011-04-19T16:53:41Z The world is in a nuclear winter, though that phrase is never used. Review: ‘The Road,’ by Cormac McCarthy 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z But, Stone and Kuznick argue, because the US used atomic bombs first and was dishonest about why it did so, that international agreement didn't happen: instead, Stone grew up under that threat of nuclear Armageddon. Oliver Stone: how America went wrong 2013-04-15T17:07:33Z If and when the Democrats gain control, they will undoubtedly use the “nuclear solution” to ram a big-government liberal agenda through the Senate. How Supreme Court Nominations Became So Partisan 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z King’s epic The Stand ends with God’s Hand coming down from heaven and setting off a nuclear weapon, killing all the bad guys. In support of Stephen King 2012-07-18T14:16:00Z "The new prime minister seems to think that nuclear power plants are necessary for Japan's economy, and how to resume their operation is one of his key political agendas," Oe said. Nobel winner urges Japan to abandon nuclear power 2011-09-06T11:14:08Z A finite number of nuclear warheads exist on this planet and they could be dismantled one by one in a relatively short period of time if policymakers chose to do so. Parenting the climate-change generation 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z The production updates the action to the nuclear age. Angela Gheorghiu cancels Met Opera's new `Faust' 2011-03-07T18:08:18Z Hollywood’s cultural avatars going up against a president with the nuclear codes and a Republican Congress. Trump v Hollywood? Don't expect to see the culture war play out on screen 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z With no build up, the series jump-cut to, I am told, the face of a woman raddled by nuclear radiation. From the archive, 31 August 1976: Who loves you Doctor? 2010-08-31T09:01:00Z A few options for such a doomsday scenario already have been sketched out, including exploding a nuclear weapon near the rock to alter its course. 1,300-foot asteroid to pass near Earth 2011-11-08T07:06:00Z Milley went over the process for nuclear strikes and other acts of war with his colleagues, to make sure nothing was instigated without his awareness. Bob Woodward Extends His Trump Chronicles With the Chaotic Transfer of Power 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z It also ignited a campaign by bomb apologists to establish the narrative that the bombs saved a million American lives and that nuclear weapons would keep America safe. Susan Southard's 'Nagasaki' faces nuclear horror as the 70th anniversary of the bombing approaches 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z North Korea, one of the world's last Cold War outposts, remains mostly isolated from the rest of the world, a country more famous for its nuclear defiance than its potential for romantic comedies. Romantic comedy gets twist from NKorean acrobats 2012-09-07T12:01:04Z One picture shows the plain, bricklike underbelly of the space shuttle Endeavor; another is a glimpse into the serpentine insides of a nuclear fusion reactor being built in Greifswald, Germany. The Week Ahead: May 2 ? 8 2010-04-30T18:18:00Z For that matter, Mr. Brzezinski suggests, a weakened America would increase the dangers of nuclear proliferation around the world. Books of The Times: ?Strategic Vision,? by Zbigniew Brzezinski 2012-01-29T19:49:59Z The growing recklessness in Kremlin decision-making, and swaggering talk about nuclear weapons, adds an alarming new element to the picture. Blind alley 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z It’s not like they captured a nuclear weapon or something. At most, they captured one of those Keurig cup things. Trevor Noah cheers Bundy standoff: When militants “voluntarily exile themselves at a frozen campsite in the middle of nowhere,” it’s a win-win 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Pakistan’s army became a nuclear proliferator, supplying technology to North Korea, Iran and Libya. Nosebags 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Fischl took up a kind of psychologically charged realism indebted to Manet, in paintings depicting tales and traumas of childhood, adolescence and the nuclear family. Searching for Light in the Darkness of the ’80s 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z America’s old paranoia about nuclear war with the Soviet Union anticipated our unending War on Terror, an existential threat sufficient to justify any abuse of civil rights, any level of surveillance, any mechanism of exclusion. Review | Joyce Carol Oates has seen hell, and it’s 1950s Wisconsin 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z The nuclear family is very clearly not what I want. In ‘The Baby,’ Killing With Cuteness 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z His latest television drama, ABC’s “Last Resort,” in which he played the righteous captain of a rogue nuclear submarine, was about to sink in the middle of its first season. Andre Braugher in ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ 2014-01-31T15:00:02Z It was like one of those movies where there’s a nuclear catastrophe in the first five minutes and the rest is just humanity turning on itself. “What color is this dress?”: The Internet’s (curiously) civil war between perception and fact 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Most recently it is the question of Iran's nuclear programme which preoccupies decision-makers and policy analysts. Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic by Michael Axworthy – review 2013-03-25T10:00:01Z The tactical nuclear program in Europe “remains the single most unifying element in NATO,” Gen. David A. Burchinal, then-deputy head of U.S. Meet the nuke the U.S. keeps in Europe, waiting to not be used 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z An attempt to consolidate Islamic government with a nuclear weapon has alarmed Israel and the world powers. Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic by Michael Axworthy – review 2013-03-01T17:30:02Z The two countries are bitter enemies and tensions are high over Iran's nuclear program. Israeli premier hopes his country wins first Oscar 2012-02-26T16:36:08Z Saddam had chemical weapons, biological weapons, maybe a nuclear arms program, all kinds of bad stuff. Rob Reiner on Donald Trump’s “classic fascist” ways: “He’s a con man and a criminal” 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z The history of the Atomic Age pulses in these books, which arrive in the shadow of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster in Japan a year ago. Photographs of Wendover Air Base and Chernobyl 2012-03-10T05:03:24Z When the Cold War ended in 1991, nuclear weapons vanished from the minds of most Americans. Is Nuclear War Inevitable? 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z International human-rights treaties don’t explicitly prohibit abortion or nuclear power, as they do execution and torture. Prison Architecture and the Question of Ethics 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z “Kubrick later decided that it was too glib a finale for a story about nuclear annihilation, and he rewrote and reshot the ending.” Weegee the Famous: The Master of Down-and-Dirty Street Photography 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Last August, their feud moved from nasty to nuclear. Trump and ‘Morning Joe’: How a long and ugly feud just got even uglier 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z While a New Dawn is breaking over the security of our nuclear material, the royal protection squad is considering putting the prince in a less glassy car. Is a catchy title really the best means of safeguarding nuclear security? 2010-12-19T00:06:14Z As her brother’s fame grew, she struggled with her status as the least famous member of her nuclear family. Martha Wainwright Tells a Few Stories She Might Regret 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z Mr. Rosenbaum doesn’t engage at length with the body of literature of nuclear peril, but attaches this subject to his own obsessions, notably Hitler. Books of The Times: Thinking the Unthinkable Again in a New Nuclear Age 2011-03-01T16:45:09Z Their faces are unseen and their limbs are covered in what appears to be ash, as if from a nuclear blast, that is then washed away. Emmanuelle Riva, Star of ‘Hiroshima Mon Amour,’ Dies at 89 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z Krugler tells us all of this, then says that we are not the only ones to have recently called him asking about nuclear warfare. This nuclear fallout shelter was untouched for 55 years. It might come in handy now. 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z The beauty of literature reveals itself to you gradually, like the sun peeking out from behind a cloud, as opposed to a nuclear warhead blasting the sky into sudden fluorescence. Tonight I'm a rock'n'roll scribe: My stint in Sonic Youth, and other fun-packed fabrications 2010-04-08T14:10:00Z "Chernobyl Diaries": This creepy looking new horror film follows six young tourists as they explore a city near the site of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. Weekend Preview: Folklife Fest, 'Stay-Cation,' Children's Day 2012-05-23T20:27:06Z Then when Kennedy began his term with the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion, it emboldened Nikita Khrushchev to introduce nuclear missiles into Cuba to protect the lone Communist outpost in the West. Coming Close to Nuclear Holocaust 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z He received training as a nuclear weapons specialist and served for nearly four years in Colorado and New Mexico. Don Lewis, Unsung Pioneer of Electronic Music, Dies at 81 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z I look at imminent nuclear Armageddon and the subsequent hopeless war with unfeeling, self-replicating machines who possess murderous capabilities that might as well be necromantic magic. Comfort Viewing: 3 Reasons I Love ‘Terminator 2: Judgment Day’ 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z Her closest moments with her husband came during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, when the United States and the Soviet Union seemed on the verge of nuclear war. New book shows another side to Jackie Kennedy 2011-09-12T03:51:08Z Los Alamos remains the home of a national laboratory that still works on the nation’s nuclear weapons. Bringing ‘Doctor Atomic’ to the Birthplace of the Bomb 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z This includes developing “mods,” which can be inserted into “Minecraft,” introducing everything from werewolves to nuclear power. Lara Croft battles male jerks 2012-06-14T16:15:00Z Should intelligence agencies gather credible reports of the ultimate nightmare, a nuclear weapon being moved to attack an American city, the border would be shut. Books of The Times: ?Counterstrike,? by Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker ? Review 2011-09-04T22:27:46Z Since then the discipline has thrived, often dominating political science, economics and biology departments with densely mathematical analyses of phenomena as diverse as nuclear brinkmanship, the fate of protest movements, stock trading and predator behavior. Michael Chwe, Author, Sees Jane Austen as Game Theorist 2013-04-22T22:06:09Z One technology he never went into, although popular myth suggests otherwise, is nuclear fission. Peter Forbes: rereading Einstein's collected papers 2013-06-21T09:00:02Z Iran has repeatedly denied it seeks nuclear arms and says its reactors are only for power and medical research. Marvel Comics plans wedding for gay hero Northstar 2012-05-22T16:46:00Z The movie is the latest Hollywood remake of the 1954 Japanese film about a mutant monster created when U.S. nuclear weapons testing goes awry. 'Godzilla' tramples rivals with monster $93 million debut 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z Warshawski, always ready to wage war against injustice, tracks a missing mother and son whose compelling story reaches back to pre-WWII Austria and encompasses nuclear secrets past and present. Adam Woog’s 10 best mysteries of 2013 2013-12-04T22:02:39Z Some episodes sparked heated debates about the effectiveness of torture, and others touched on issues of press freedom and nuclear arms. Jack Bauer turns fugitive on final "24" 2010-05-25T04:20:00Z The short answer was that if there was a nuclear attack in the capital of the United States of America, people would by flying by the seats of their pants. This nuclear fallout shelter was untouched for 55 years. It might come in handy now. 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z The Montana governor’s most memorable moment onstage might have been when he got turned around talking about America’s nuclear arsenal. ‘Why do you look so familiar?’: In Detroit, presidential wannabes try to make themselves worth recognizing 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z These are temperamental, often eccentric films, including Michael Mann’s safecracker drama “Thief,” Ridley Scott’s lush fantasy “Legend,” and “Miracle Mile,” a darkly absurd, romantic tale of nuclear holocaust. Tangerine Dream’s Music in BAMcinématek Series 2012-06-02T23:03:01Z On the heels of those triumphs, Heisenberg struggled to balance his abiding German patriotism with the realities of Nazism — a regime that tapped him to lead the still-controversial German nuclear effort. David Kaiser's top 10 books about quantum theory 2012-09-26T12:02:55Z Her hometown, Buchanan, N.Y., is also the site of the Indian Point nuclear power plant. Women Write of Home, and a Woman’s Place in It 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z “We are showing one of her amazing large-scale videos made in the nuclear zone, which works visually very well in our show,” Ms. Havinga said. A Boston Photo Exhibition Focuses on a Disaster in Japan 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z The naysaying went nuclear after a photo emerged from the set last year. Jason Segel Makes a Career U-Turn as David Foster Wallace in ‘The End of the Tour’ 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z You gotta love a lyric that rhymes "tractor" with "nuclear reactor." Review: 'Iron Curtain' turns Cold War into a splashy romp 2011-04-07T19:24:04Z It was never any more likely to happen than when Reagan and Gorbachev yammered on about their supposed goal of eventually eliminating nuclear weapons altogether. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Has transparency killed the anonymous source? Nope. 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z “Copenhagen,” a cerebral drama about a pair of physicists on opposite sides of the race to develop nuclear weapons during World War II, is hardly the stuff of lighthearted fun. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z It is scheduled to occur at around the same time its foes in the South hold a parliamentary election, and just over three weeks after a global nuclear security summit in Seoul. North Korea's plan for rocket launch stirs regional concern 2012-03-16T12:05:06Z The nuclear threat that is the opera’s theme has been in the headlines more than usual lately. Bringing ‘Doctor Atomic’ to the Birthplace of the Bomb 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z Just this past June, the deadliest violence in decades between China and India, both nuclear armed, broke out along a barren stretch of their Himalayan border, which has never been formally marked. Climbing the Himalaya With Soldiers, Spies, Lamas and Mountaineers 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z As deputy national security adviser for strategic communications, Rhodes was intimately involved in every consequential decision of that era, from the Iran nuclear deal to the restoration of the Cuba-America relationship. Ben Rhodes: ‘Obama has a serenity that I don't. I get more exercised’ 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z His idea: the “Inconvenient Truth” of nuclear threat. Film: Two New Films About the Nuclear Threat 2010-07-18T01:33:00Z It’s more sophisticated than that ... the best way to resolve the dispute is not to jump to the nuclear option. Is civilization good? Author Jared Diamond investigates 2012-12-29T03:08:49Z Consider the IMF Treaty, limiting intermediate-range nuclear weapons, which he signed with the Soviets in the last year of his presidency. Rick Perlstein's 'The Invisible Bridge' spans Nixon-Reagan transition 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z And the ultimate cure for our energy woes would be nuclear fusion, the same process that makes stars shine. The Miracle Cure for All Our Energy Woes? 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z Division want his stockpile of weapons-grade nuclear material. Tonight's TV highlights: Giant Squid: Inside Nature's Giants Special 2010-10-13T23:05:00Z The nuclear disaster in Ms. Kirkwood’s drama, now playing on Broadway, only affects a small swathe of England’s countryside and coastline. 10 More Plays Where the Future Forecast Is Grim 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z We don’t really have to prep for a huge natural disaster – and there’s very little you could do to prepare for a nuclear event even if you wanted to – so we prep more pragmatically. Worst case scenario: the ‘preppers’ gearing up for cataclysm | Alex Moshakis 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z The show goes on to examine a number of nuclear plants Mr. Parent designed in the late 1970s, when France was developing its image as a technological leader. Architecture Review: A Paris Tribute to an Almost-Sideways View of the World 2010-03-09T23:26:00Z Perhaps it will be like the plans for nuclear plants or clean coal: lots of talk and government spending, and then things stall, and then they say they are restudying it. The Follies of Fuel Efficiency 2010-05-06T15:00:00Z But N. David Charkes is wrong about who discovered nuclear fission. Letters to the Editor 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z A ready-to-launch nuclear warhead would get across the real danger here more effectively than a little salt shaker. Welcome to flavor country: why New York City's salt warning is a good thing 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z These guys build nuclear reactors in their back yards. U-Md. professor hooks students on this particle accelerator — by building one 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z Lloyd Pack was a committed socialist who campaigned for nuclear disarmament. In pictures: The career of Roger Lloyd Pack 2014-01-16T13:54:55Z The worldwide launching of nuclear missiles sends the wealthy scrambling to their private jets, leaving those of more modest means, or none at all, to fry in a radioactive blaze. Bring on the witching hours: “AHS: Apocalypse” and the sisterhood that will save us 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Trump’s posturing hasn’t helped – the threat of nuclear war can send even the most rational thinkers running to the tinned-food aisle. Worst case scenario: the ‘preppers’ gearing up for cataclysm | Alex Moshakis 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z In 2012, the National Security Agency acknowledged that the computer systems that control America’s nuclear weapons are “under constant attack” from hackers. A movie revisits the night a nuclear warhead nearly destroyed Arkansas 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z Fears of Communism and loose talk of nuclear weapons may have had something to do with something. ‘The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes’ Review: Gossip Girl 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z One episode literally ended with a nuclear bomb going off, and the only sensible way to react to it was to shrug. Has Netflix killed off the cliffhanger? 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z Four explosions have occurred at the Fukishima Daiichi nuclear facility north of Tokyo since Friday, raising radiation levels in the area and fears of a nuclear meltdown from uranium rods that cannot be adequately cooled. Bad timing for NBC's 'The Event' nuclear-themed episode 2011-03-15T04:44:00Z Still, the worst-case scenario is not simply a reduction of energy, but a nuclear plant meltdown. Five strange, terrifying consequences of global warming 2012-08-27T13:24:00Z The pals are seen mixing work with Rodeo Drive shopping sprees and club-hopping, not somber discussions about whether Iran is developing nuclear weapons. Iranian-Americans get the reality TV treatment 2012-03-10T18:31:05Z In the second half, a single set depicted a snowy forest with a ruined shack and looked like a vision of nuclear winter, appropriate to the dire denouement. Review:"Williams Tell" celebrates all things Swiss 2010-12-10T12:08:00Z The latter sections, concerning the innovations and obstacles to future applications of nuclear power, veer somewhat into the weeds. ‘Nuclear Now’ Review: Oliver Stone Makes the Case for Power Plants 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Walter Cronkite is on TV with the latest news about the Three Mile Island nuclear accident that is threatening the nation. Super 8 ? review 2011-08-06T23:05:42Z The show itself stayed alive long enough for Colonel Austin to rescue innumerable victims from natural disasters, defeat terrorists, recapture stolen secret plans, protect classified weapons systems, prevent nuclear holocausts and even return to space. On DVD, Better ... Stronger ... Faster 2010-12-10T20:18:00Z Since then, many residents have moved back to nuclear zones without confirmation from local officials whether it’s safe to be there. Back to Fukushima: “It was all very apocalyptic” 2013-05-28T17:18:00Z China, Iran's biggest trade partner, is one of six major powers involved in nuclear talks with Tehran. Iran to announce nuclear progress: Ahmadinejad 2012-02-11T11:45:00Z Give the right set of circumstances, those actions include a nuclear strike—even one that results in huge loss of life. America has stopped worrying, loves the bomb 2013-03-19T18:50:00Z He interviewed blast survivors about what it had been like to be on the receiving end of nuclear attack. Long After the Bomb, Its Story Finds a New Audience 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z Hard-done-by Frank Grimes gets a job at the nuclear power plant, realises Homer is a dangerous lazy idiot, and sets about trying to unmask him for the fool he is. The Simpsons: the five greatest episodes in the iconic show's history 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z They performed together in the 1970s to support George McGovern's presidential campaign and protest nuclear energy before reuniting permanently in 1981. Peter, Paul and more than memories 2011-08-25T18:09:03Z For my own part, I was maddened by Simms's complete hostility to nuclear power. Cancel the Apocalypse by Andrew Simms – review 2013-02-28T11:00:01Z “We created the nuclear family because of industrial progress and urbanization, and we live within those small boxes,” he said. Tension-inducing Swedish comedy ‘Force Majeure’ lays bare a man’s cowardice The accident also decimated international confidence in nuclear power, and a number of countries halted their own programs — for a time, that is. An Enthralling and Terrifying History of the Nuclear Meltdown at Chernobyl 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z In both, nuclear weapons explode with an unsettling degree of ease. Nervous about nukes again? Here’s what you need to know about The Button. (There is no button.) 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z The time is 1972, superpowers are gridlocked and the only reasonable end to the Cold War appears to be a nuclear one. Cold-War thriller 'The Game' at the top of its spy game 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z General Assembly resolution 70 years ago calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons "instantly create a universal message of peace." Actor Michael Douglas says the winning posters in a global competition to commemorate the first UN General Assembly resolution 70 years ago calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons "instantly create a universal message of peace." 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z This year, the best short story award went to Ian Sales for "Adrift on the Sea of Rains", which sees a group of astronauts stranded on the moon when nuclear war breaks out on Earth. Adam Roberts wins BSFA prize for SF crime novel Jack Glass 2013-04-02T14:44:55Z Tensions between the U.S. and North Korea have been on the rise as North Korea flexes its newfound nuclear capabilities and President Donald Trump promises to rain down “fire and fury.” John Oliver Gets Weird Al Yankovic to Serenade North Korea 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Ahmadinejad’s plans for a nuclear arsenal are a threat to the security of the United States, whereas Ms. Hunter’s ambitions serve mostly as a cautionary parable for aspiring American presidents. TV Watch: One Woman?s ?Truth?: Rielle Hunter Talks to Oprah 2010-04-29T22:45:00Z The subject of nuclear war is too important not to fascinate, and though we have avoided it for 75 years, the possibility now looms closer than before. The Reporter Who Told the World About the Bomb 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z But, peering out from under his bushy white eyebrows, Rooney also analyzed presidents, critiqued the Iraq war and considered North Korea's nuclear threat. Former CBS News commentator Andy Rooney dies 2011-11-06T09:19:51Z “We’re going sailing on one of the flagships in the nuclear arsenal,” Mr. Lemley said in a telephone interview on Monday. ‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’ Courts the Military 2012-05-23T13:45:25Z By 1960, he had put an enduring stamp on the atomic age through the Single Integrated Operational Plan, or SIOP, SAC’s list of all the nuclear weapons in the American arsenal and their intended targets. Nuclear Nightmares 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z The related tsunami and nuclear meltdown not only devastated parts of the country, but also caused tens of thousands of casualties. Dance Listings for May 2-8 2014-05-01T22:10:06Z Joan Stanley is a young, naive physicist who is part of Britain’s race to build a nuclear bomb. Crime fiction: Richard Jury’s return; an unsuspected spy 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z Under President George W. Bush, Washington and New Delhi even signed a landmark agreement on civilian nuclear cooperation, overcoming strong resistance in Congress. India and the United States: Two Countries That Can’t Live With Each Other or Without Each Other 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z Bill Clinton and Gabriel García Márquez argued at the Styrons’ table while a Marine with the nuclear football ate fried chicken nearby. Books of The Times: William Styron, in a Daughter?s Words 2011-04-19T18:14:34Z In the early 1980s, she lived at the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp in Berkshire, England, which was formed as a protest against nuclear weapons. Mom, and Maybe the Supreme Court, Said It Was Time to Get Married 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z I’m wondering if other crises have had an effect like that—if you feel that events like the 2011 tsunami in Japan and the Fukushima nuclear disaster have changed your fiction. The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z Unlike nuclear fission — which splits big nuclei into smaller ones and is used in today’s nuclear power plants — fusion occurs when two small nuclei merge to become one larger one, releasing energy. The Miracle Cure for All Our Energy Woes? 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z He wrote the screenplay for the film version of “Rent,” but is best known as the show runner on “Jericho,” a short-lived CBS series set in the aftermath of a nuclear attack. Arts & Leisure: Emma Watson?s Personal Journey to the Suburbs From Hogwarts 2011-10-05T12:00:00Z And then we have our nuclear weapon, which is the movie “Big Money Rustlas.” Spoofing Insane Clown Posse on the Internet 2010-04-29T21:43:00Z The advance would be another step in achieving proficiency in the entire nuclear fuel cycle. Marvel Comics plans wedding for gay hero Northstar 2012-05-22T16:46:00Z Yet why do I hesitate to name that other land in which for years—although kept secret— a growing nuclear power has existed beyond supervision or verification, subject to no inspection of any kind? Make kids memorize poetry 2012-06-13T02:00:00Z Gerard and Kelly do not treat the house as the historical monument dryly described on the bronze plaque at the gate, built for a nuclear family, but as a trampoline for an alternative household. What Josephine Baker and a Maharajah Teach Us About Design 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z In March, 14 airmen at a Wyoming base that manages nuclear missiles were suspended for illegal drug activity. Nervous about nukes again? Here’s what you need to know about The Button. (There is no button.) 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z “We initially set up the study assuming there would be a strong aversion to using nuclear weapons,” he said in an interview. America has stopped worrying, loves the bomb 2013-03-19T18:50:00Z The timing couldn’t have been better: Between the Israeli election, a looming nuclear deal with Iran and the 2016 campaign kicking off, the group had no trouble being heard. Jeremy Ben-Ami, winning a place at the table for J Street 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z Christmas always magnifies the "joys of the nuclear family", to such an extent that anyone who lives in less than a picture-perfect set-up is likely to feel inadequate, even if only fleetingly. Can a Christmas pudding ever be worth ?250? 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z “The news organizations are actually telling people what to do in case of a nuclear attack. They say people should immediately stay inside and keep watching Netflix.” Seth Meyers Thinks ‘Fire and Fury’ Has Something to Do With the Opioid Crisis 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z Humanity is even worse off in Benjamin Percy’s forthcoming novel, “The Dead Lands,” a retelling of the Lewis and Clark story set in a futuristic America that’s been destroyed by a super-flu and nuclear fallout. ‘Station Eleven’ Joins Fall’s Crop of Dystopian Novels 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z As paranoia about Communism and nuclear destruction grew in lockstep with expanding American might, the country again dreamed up a yesterday, this one peopled by God-fearing pioneers. My Hero, Emily Dickinson, Outlaw of Amherst 2010-05-13T14:38:00Z Variety called him the “darling of the eggheads,” and Bob Hope once teased him as “the favorite comedian of nuclear physicists everywhere.” There’s No Dave Chappelle or Hannah Gadsby Without Mort Sahl 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z The Orthodox, meanwhile, have chided him for endorsing President Barack Obama’s 2015 Iran nuclear agreement. Do Jewish New Yorkers care about identity politics? Jerry Nadler hopes so. 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z The step is likely tied to heightening economic woes in Iran because of government mismanagement and Western sanctions over Iran's nuclear development program. Musicians: Iran's national orchestra disbanded 2012-10-29T13:34:07Z With the demand for cheap energy growing exponentially and the fossil-fuel era nearing its end, nuclear power will be a major part of the mix for at least the next several decades. "Into Eternity": The quest to make us forget nuclear waste 2011-02-04T19:45:00Z The city of Pripyat was once a secret Soviet city, closed to anyone but workers of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor and their families. In Ukraine, a radioactive nuclear ghost town near Chernobyl is a hot destination 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z Psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton coined a name for this condition: "nuclear alienation." Susan Southard's 'Nagasaki' faces nuclear horror as the 70th anniversary of the bombing approaches 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z If we were in a nuclear war would we be as cool as the family in “The Road?” Paul Scheer: The First Time I Got In a Bar Fight 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z Otake has been illuminating the environmental damage caused by nuclear accidents. Bill T. Jones and Eiko Otake: Opposites Guided by ‘Too-Much-Ness’ 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z In response to yet another one of Berg’s frightening prophecies of soon-coming nuclear holocaust and antichrist world takeover, we moved to “safer” third-world countries. My life in the cult: How “serving God” unraveled into sex abuse, child neglect and a waking nightmare 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z He sorts through the close calls during what he calls “the first nuclear era.” Books of The Times: Thinking the Unthinkable Again in a New Nuclear Age 2011-03-01T16:45:09Z She contrasts her depiction of nuclear anxiety with what she called the media’s interest in “the spectacular visual experience” of modern weaponry. Anna Lim’s Vision of Nuclear Anxiety in South Korea 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z Specifically, radioactive metals that were deposited into the sea near the coastal city of Fukushima, Japan, after the nuclear accident that took place there two years ago this week. The nuclear waste in that tuna roll 2013-03-17T18:00:00Z But the basic logic remained in place, and radical changes to nuclear doctrine have remained elusive. Nuclear Nightmares 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z A credit card dispute is a nuclear option. Credit card dispute filed after a canceled flight complicates matters for would-be traveler | Travel Troubleshooter 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z The comparison is inescapable to the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that took close to 18,500 lives while setting off a nuclear meltdown at a power plant in Fukushima. The Anime Master of Missed Connections Makes Strong Contact in Japan 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z Japan, in the wake of the nuclear power catastrophe at Fukushima in March 2011, lost the power from those six reactors, plus they also suspended operations at another particularly vulnerable facility. Climate change can be stopped 2012-12-09T17:00:00Z He berated his own country for complicity by selling the Israelis “yet another submarine equipped to transport nuclear warheads.” Make kids memorize poetry 2012-06-13T02:00:00Z By then, India’s 1998 nuclear weapons tests — foreshadowed by its 1974 “peaceful” nuclear test — had been forgiven and American economic sanctions lifted. India and the United States: Two Countries That Can’t Live With Each Other or Without Each Other 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z Americans’ fears of nuclear annihilation well up every few decades. Review: ‘The Dark Side of the Sun,’ and, by the Way, We’re Doomed 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z The fifth installment of the “X-Men” franchise jumps back to the 1960s, when the United States was on the brink of nuclear war and turtlenecks were all the rage. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Nathan for You’ and ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z I wanted peace, jobs for all, nuclear disarmament. 'Hope has started to grow': Maxine Peake on Corbyn, people power and Peterloo’s radical legacy 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z The latest statements are certain to fuel tensions with the U.S. and its allies, which are trying to turn up pressure on Iran with new sanctions to punish it over its disputed nuclear program. Report: Iran begins uranium enrichment at new site as Guard threatens key strait closure 2012-01-08T12:44:00Z That’s why I was completely out of control when the Russians attacked a nuclear plant in Ukraine and set a fire. Bill T. Jones and Eiko Otake: Opposites Guided by ‘Too-Much-Ness’ 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z In the future, will there be mobile nuclear waste mountains? The best architecture and design for spring 2013 2013-04-01T06:00:35Z Mr. Vouillamoz, an engineer in nuclear physics and a microfluids specialist, wanted to create a new application of that ancient concept by replicating a clepsydra in a wristwatch. When Liquids and Mechanics Work Together 2013-04-24T15:32:10Z According to the documentary, just about everything we’ve been told about nuclear power for the past 30 years is wrong. ‘Pandora’s Promise’: Opening up pro-nuclear dialogue 2013-06-13T21:14:51Z When nuclear terror reigned England has a long tradition of dystopian prophecy in literature and cinema. When nuclear terror reigned 2012-05-25T00:00:00Z When two extraordinarily powerful men are pitted against each other, the doctrine of “mutual assured destruction” is supposed to act as a deterrent, preventing them from considering the nuclear option. ‘Billions’ shows why some of us root for the rich and scandalous 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z The rise of global terrorism, the expanding nuclear club, the increased availability of fissile material on the black market: all point to a higher likelihood of nuclear attack than ever before. Film: Two New Films About the Nuclear Threat 2010-07-18T01:33:00Z Reacting to Jeb Bush’s comment that Americans would not want “such a hothead with the nuclear codes,” Mr. Trump is seen rolling his eyes, raising his eyebrows, mocking surprise, feigning laughter and otherwise exuding smugness. Political GIFs Are the New Sound Bites This Campaign Season 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z The two modes, horror and disaster, began dovetailing in the 1950s in pictures that played on fear of nuclear weapons and nuclear power, generally; radiation mutated "normal" beasts and turned them into voracious, gigantic super-predators. Why we're fascinated by animal attacks 2010-08-18T11:01:00Z I’d like to develop nuclear plant safety systems so that the Chernobyl disaster never happens again. This is 18 Around the World — Through Girls’ Eyes 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z For many Americans, Iran brings to mind only glowering mullahs, state-sponsored terrorism, American hostages and nuclear ambitions. Review | Can art help us understand Iran? A new LACMA exhibit misses the mark. 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z So wrote a member of the Manhattan Project’s Medical Group on July 16, 1945, after watching the world’s first detonation of a nuclear weapon, in the New Mexican desert, known as the Trinity Test. The Antiquarian Book Fair: From Sondheim’s Letters to a Brontë Discovery 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z There was bacon, occasionally, though the disposal of the resultant grease inspired a level of panic others reserve for nuclear spills. I Hopped a Plane Just for a Barbecue Sandwich. I’d Do It Again. 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z The Bernoulli project, as the Organization calls it, is set in motion after a post-Soviet Union nuclear warhead in Kazakhstan goes missing and Israeli intelligence concludes that Iran has a bead on it. Review | ‘Last Instructions’ echoes ‘The Manchurian Candidate’ — with a modern twist 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z Its history is one of cotton and railroads, industry and antebellum houses, civil war looting and nuclear accidents. Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll 2011-08-18T21:30:00Z His signature initiatives include breaking up telephone monopolies, nuclear arms control, Medicare-for-all, finding a cure for Alzheimer’s and the Green New Deal. The Markey-Kennedy Senate primary battle is one Democrats wish wasn’t happening 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z In spite of a comically hellish childhood, Frank Grimes managed to obtain a degree in nuclear physics. From ER to The Sopranos: what were the most shocking TV deaths? 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z Katanga is vastly wealthy in metals — cobalt, copper, gold, manganese, uranium, zinc — used in everything from electric wires to cellphones and nuclear bombs. On the Frontier, the Lubumbashi Biennial Makes Art From Obstacles 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z While nuclear anxieties have certainly achieved a new hold on world consciousness these days, "The Physicists" lacks much sense of contemporary urgency. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Seeing Patterns in a Nuclear Cloud 2012-06-19T17:57:24Z Barack Obama has spelled out the circumstances under which the United States would be prepared to use nuclear weapons. Guardian Daily podcast: Parties begin hard-fought campaign, and Obama unveils nuclear strategy 2010-04-06T23:01:00Z Early-warning systems in Moscow incorrectly interpreted innocuous aircraft as incoming nuclear missiles from America. The best films for spring 2011 2011-04-05T19:00:01Z Biscuits, tongue depressors, latrine covers, thermometers and salt tablets, all meant for a nuclear war that never came. This nuclear fallout shelter was untouched for 55 years. It might come in handy now. 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z It’s about Finland burying its nuclear waste in a deep, deep cavern, with two diggers silently burrowing into the bedrock. 50 documentaries you need to see 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z I was like... 'who else is playing?' and they were like, 'we can't tell you, you've got to sign a confidentiality agreement' - it's like it's the Iran nuclear programme or something. Gallagher turned down Olympic gig 2012-08-16T09:26:34Z He narrowed Olympic Games, the program against the Iranian nuclear enrichment program, to make sure that it did not cripple civilian facilities like hospitals. Obama Sees Limited Options for Cyberwar in Syria 2014-02-24T22:03:46Z In Washington, the State Department distanced itself from Rodman, and reiterated U.S. concern about human rights in North Korea and its nuclear program. Rodman in NKorea to prep for game on leader's Bday 2013-12-19T21:54:00Z The story concerns a hacker who causes a meltdown at a nuclear reactor in China and then manipulates soy futures at the Chicago commodities exchange. The Odd Shadow Over Michael Mann’s “Blackhat” 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z His books abound with talk of quasars and quarks, and ponderings on the nature of the strong nuclear force. "Foundation": An introduction to five major themes in the work of sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z “We behave a lot like a nuclear family,” Ms. Linder said. Unmarried Spouses Have a Way With Words 2013-01-04T21:50:17Z Rarely does a single accord return one of the world’s great civilizations to center stage, but the recent nuclear agreement with the UN Security Council may well accomplish that for Iran. These Are the Best Places to Travel in 2016 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z They emerge from years of hibernation in search of nuclear power, their food source. Summer movies ofter action and adventure options for kids It ends with Paige going to Pennsylvania, with her church youth group, to protest the use of nuclear weapons at a military base. “The Americans” recap: Echoes of the past 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z The 100-photo exhibition is divided between work that focuses on the tsunami-earthquake damage and that which concentrates on the nuclear disaster and its implications. A Boston Photo Exhibition Focuses on a Disaster in Japan 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z It will abolish the new Infrastructure Planning Commission, a Soviet-style quango with powers to send nuclear plants, power lines and pylons to your neck of the woods whether you want them or not. What have Labour done for architecture? 2010-04-21T20:30:00Z Q: It's said that only two things will survive a nuclear holocaust — Tupperware and cockroaches. 'Wicked Bugs': Amy Stewart's take on the planet's most diabolical insects 2011-06-22T21:30:06Z Putin is now threatening nuclear war as his forces face defeat in Ukraine. Ti West on anyone walking out of his slasher film "X": "What did you think you were signing up for?" 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z By the end of the decade, he’d opened a wildly successful real estate development business in Venezuela and returned to Harvard for a master’s degree focused on nuclear engineering. Inside France's $100 Million Palace Pompadour, A Royal Chateau Restored By A Press-Shy Philanthropist 2013-03-28T11:00:00Z By doubling renewables while cutting nuclear, “it just substituted one carbon-free source for another, and CO2 emissions did not really decrease at all.” A Sensible Climate Change Solution, Borrowed From Sweden 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z In a quirk of timing, Everybody Knows premiered on the same day that Donald Trump announced that the US would withdraw from the international nuclear agreement with Iran. Cannes 2018: Asghar Farhadi demands Iran lift travel ban on Jafar Panahi 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z The threat in the “Watchmen” comics mirrors the overriding fear hanging over the Reagan era, which is that of nuclear annihilation. “Watchmen” is a brutally provocative reckoning of alternate history 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z Following the success of her novel, she went on to write the nuclear power drama Silkwood, starring Streep again and Cher, which earned both actresses Oscar nominations. The words and stories of Nora Ephron 2012-06-27T11:03:31Z Not the rubber masks or the exploding gum sticks or the nuclear countdown clocks that always stop with one second till death. How did Mission: Impossible become Hollywood's most reliable franchise? 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z During that time, the Trump administration has already made the picture more complicated for many issues that Mr. Oliver has addressed in his long-form segments, like net neutrality, voter fraud, torture and nuclear weapons. John Oliver Returns: ‘I’m Not a Complete Nihilist’ 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z He also received bigger parts in blockbuster Hollywood movies, playing a deranged Swedish-born Russian nuclear strategist in the 2011 movie “Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol.” Michael Nyqvist, Swedish Actor Who Played Villain in ‘John Wick,’ Dies at 56 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z But I am in a nuclear family with a bunch of people who can't even help themselves. Perspective | Miss Manners: If I’m everybody’s emergency contact, then who’s mine? 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z Similarly, viewers will have known what to expect from the five brilliant episodes of Chernobyl, which expertly reconstructs the world’s worst nuclear disaster and its aftermath. Feel-bad TV: why are we obsessed with small-screen tragedy? 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z She was featured this summer alongside a bevy of world leaders in “Countdown to Zero,” a documentary about nuclear proliferation, a topic she knew well as a C.I.A. officer tracking weapons of mass destruction. Red Carpet Spy 2010-09-24T19:40:00Z Initially, our wonderment was at Victory’s immense strength, a product of twin nuclear reactors driving engines that generate an almost-unfathomable 75,000 horsepower. How global warming has changed what it’s like to travel to the North Pole 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z That position may seem at odds with Kaplan’s insistence that only by “immersing themselves” in nuclear logic can presidents and their advisers find a way out of the rabbit hole. Nuclear Nightmares 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z These include the accidental smashing — into well-mapped rocks — of a nuclear submarine the author is aboard, the Hartford, an event that ended seven naval careers. Books of The Times: What?s a Submarine Officer Doing in the Desert? 2010-09-21T21:23:00Z Central to both is her voice, which functions as a kind of nuclear deterrent – we were fully aware that if she unleashed its full power, the venue would crumble into a heap of bricks. Charlotte Church – review 2012-09-25T17:03:43Z The historically accurate red chosen for the fabric looked practically nuclear on camera. This Museum Has a Lived-In Look 2011-03-15T10:00:00Z The book’s second flaw is the unnecessary claim that Hersey’s work altered the course of history, changed attitudes toward the arms race, and has helped the world avoid nuclear war ever since. The Reporter Who Told the World About the Bomb 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z She’s celebrated the holiday with the same three women since the ’90s, when she was 14 and kidnapped by an Indiana cult leader who claimed to be saving them from a nuclear apocalypse. Review: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Is Must-Stream Comedy 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z The best scene in Wednesday night’s episode of “The Americans” on FX was a moving evocation of late-stage Cold War insecurity, as both Americans and Soviets soberly contemplated the reality of an all-out nuclear exchange. ‘The Americans’ Season 4, Episode 9: Cold War Insecurity Meets TV’s Golden Age 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z When World War II — itself now sometimes called an apocalypse – ushered in the nuclear age, it brought a radical transformation to the idea. America’s psychic numbing: Why we’re so obsessed with “apocalypse” 2014-02-26T13:30:00Z So it’s easy to buy the platitude that Iran must never get a nuclear weapon or it’s curtains. America’s psychic numbing: Why we’re so obsessed with “apocalypse” 2014-02-26T13:30:00Z Whether in its original German language or in English, the happy-pop New Wave jam is easily the most danceable song about a nuclear holocaust caused by balloons. 25 famous songs with misunderstood meanings 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z It’s about a young woman of thrice-scrubbed innocence, Candy Christian, who possesses nuclear pheromonal impact and a “heart too big” to deprive men. A Parody of Smut — and of Voltaire — Turns 60 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z A nuclear Iran is especially terrifying, he writes, because of the West’s lack of direct “communication with Tehran, which could increase the likelihood of an ‘accidental’ nuclear confrontation.” Books of The Times: ?The Quest? by Daniel Yergin - Review 2011-09-20T12:00:00Z He keeps surpassing predictions related to his nuclear arsenal — in September, he tested a weapon with seven times the yield of those dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This nuclear fallout shelter was untouched for 55 years. It might come in handy now. 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z The Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada was supposed to be that site, but the project has stalled. John Oliver Targets Nuclear Waste on Last Week Tonight 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z For Pyongyang, tourism is one of the few sources of the foreign currency it relies on to overcome U.S. sanctions related to its nuclear and missile programs. Isolated North Korea a visitor draw, but sometimes literally a tourist trap 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z He said he assured her that while the president is the sole nuclear launch authority, “he doesn’t launch them alone.” Milley defends call to Chinese at end of Trump presidency 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z The surrogate is an appendage of the nuclear family, relegated to the fringe. Can Surrogacy Remake the World? 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z The formation of the Palestine Liberation Organization that May received little media coverage, nor were most Americans greatly concerned when China detonated its first nuclear bomb in mid-October. Everything you know about the 1960s is wrong 2012-11-24T14:00:00Z “Countdown to Zero” has offered her a chance to put her C.I.A. expertise to use in the public sphere — and to befriend Meg Ryan and Queen Noor of Jordan, fellow advocates of eliminating nuclear weapons. Red Carpet Spy 2010-09-24T19:40:00Z For example, look at The Hunt for Red October – a nail-biting thriller about a commanding officer who takes an undetectable, state-of-the-art nuclear submarine rogue, with potentially catastrophic global consequences. How WikiLeaks killed the conspiracy thriller 2010-12-02T22:30:00Z Mr. Camarena, the son of a nuclear plant technician and a cooking teacher, was a wedding singer in his native Mexico, making a specialty of Billy Joel’s “Just the Way You Are.” Critic’s Notebook: Opera Stars and the Revival of Bel Canto 2014-05-04T21:52:06Z Like Ms. Heikin, Mr. Brugger wanted to depict North Korea as a real place with real problems, not an abstract nuclear threat. Film: Filmmakers on North Korea: Restricted, but Not Deterred 2010-03-27T01:07:00Z The balls, which represent five-megaton nuclear warheads, are aimed at objects labeled as military targets — power plants, missile installations — while a lone child oversees the game from a nearby computer terminal. Video Is Born From a Favorite Book and Band 2011-08-22T14:22:54Z After closing and bolting the door, Louis starts narrating a nuclear attack as his friends outside the shelter crank an air raid siren. Brett Kavanaugh goes to the movies 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z He describes nuclear submarines themselves as outdated and brutally expensive relics of a bygone era, almost useless in post-cold-war situations. Books of The Times: What?s a Submarine Officer Doing in the Desert? 2010-09-21T21:23:00Z All in all, Schwartz’s biography adds importantly to the literature of the utterly remarkable men and women who opened up nuclear physics to the world. A Remarkable Man Among Remarkable Men and Women 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z A nuclear disaster, evil scientists and a malevolent monster with psychedelic eyeballs that wreaks havoc on a bucolic town. Q&A: Takashi Murakami talks monsters, movies and Fukushima 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z Unlike most critics of Israel’s nuclear policy Mr. Cohen supports its decision to build and maintain the bomb. Books of The Times: Vague, Opaque and Ambiguous: Israel?s Hush-Hush Nuclear Policy 2010-10-13T23:25:00Z In the ’60s the cold war inspired shows that tapped into, then blunted, people’s worst fears about nuclear annihilation. 2010-01-15T04:09:00Z As the nuclear deadline nears, it looks as if the world may be blown to smithereens because this one college student can’t be found to tell Kennedy what to do next. Review: ‘Back Channel,’ by Stephen L. Carter German products were considered so unpatriotic, Mr. Watts said, “the Daughters of the American Revolution just went nuclear.” Antiques: Furniture Sleuthing on Long Island 2010-06-10T21:47:00Z Douglas spoke at U.N. headquarters alongside a new exhibit of petitions containing the signatures of more than 1 million people calling on the world's leaders for the abolition of nuclear weapons. UN peace messenger Douglas remembers Japan 2011-03-24T16:34:12Z Boy meet girl, boy loses girl, boy despairs and jumps into a vat of nuclear waste. ‘Ruthless!’ sings but ‘Zombie Prom’ is D.O.A. 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z Israeli officials say the next year may be crucial in seeing whether Iran will curb its nuclear plans in the face of international condemnation and Western sanctions. Netanyahu surprise gives Israel grand coalition 2012-05-08T12:15:11Z The website was started by a man who first gained infamy as “The A-Bomb Kid” after creating a how-to guide for building a nuclear weapon while in college. This site bet big on political gambling. Regulators want it shut down. 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z In October, the White House denied a Post story that Trump would decertify the Iran nuclear agreement as not in the national interest. Scoop. Denial. Scoop confirmed. That’s business as usual for writers covering the Trump White House. 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z “Ri Chun Hi is a clear example of such people as she’s strongly propagated his nuclear and missile tests and served as a sort of bugler for him.” Kim gives North Korea’s most famous newscaster a luxury home 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z In these circumstances, with nuclear warfare looming, no reaction can be described as normal, but fixation on the powers of fruit is a hard one to share. The City of Devi by Manil Suri – review 2013-04-08T08:00:02Z My parents are rounding the bend on 61 years of marriage, but I well remember the nuclear effect that divorce had on my best friend’s life. Motherlode Blog: Can You Have a Good Divorce? 2011-10-31T16:21:15Z The answer was about children and nuclear weapons. "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps": Gekko's back! 2010-05-14T15:15:00Z Beyond Mega-City One's massive walls is the Cursed Earth where mutants scratch out a living on the radioactive wasteland left in the aftermath of a nuclear war. Comic lawman Dredd's Scots roots 2012-08-14T05:37:40Z Bucolic Vermont is suddenly the site of a Fukushima-style nuclear meltdown that will leave 19 people dead, Emily’s parents among them, and tens of thousands homeless as a radioactive plume blossoms above the Green Mountains. Review: ‘Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands,’ by Chris Bohjalian “The taproot of violence in our society today,” he wrote, “is our intent to use nuclear weapons. Once we have agreed to that, all other evil is minor in comparison.” Nervous about nukes again? Here’s what you need to know about The Button. (There is no button.) 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z Both, however, are increasing nuclear power production at home in order to sell their fossil fuels abroad, with little net gain against global warming. A Sensible Climate Change Solution, Borrowed From Sweden 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z Louis Menand examines the history of global nuclear crises and considers the hazards of military bellicosity. Sunday Reading: On the Precipice 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z A controversial figure known as the father of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z The documentary begins with the true story of a cyberattack against a nuclear power plant in Iran and a secret program, Stuxnet, that ended up infiltrating computers around the globe. What’s on TV Saturday: Benedict Cumberbatch Hosts ‘Saturday Night Live’ 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z Mr. Cohen delves deeply into the Israeli psyche as he analyzes — and debates — the reign of nuclear ambiguity. Books of The Times: Vague, Opaque and Ambiguous: Israel?s Hush-Hush Nuclear Policy 2010-10-13T23:25:00Z He emphasizes that the personal chemistry between the two new presidents, Obama and Dmitri A. Medvedev, drove forward a range of policies, from nuclear disarmament to efforts to deny Iran the bomb, with tangible success. Does Vladimir Putin Speak for the Russian People? 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z Set in a post-apocalyptic nuclear winter, a nameless man and his young son wander through the cold, dark, and bleak world where everyone has turned into their basest selves. 35 Books Everyone Should Read in Their Lifetime 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z Episodes that weave in actual culture and pop culture tend to be especially resonant, and this week’s episode, “The Day After” — a reference to the TV movie about nuclear war — is particularly so. What You Should Watch This Week: Spring Finales, ‘Peaky Blinders’ and ‘The Americans’ 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z There she was cast in a variety of bleak productions including “The Children’s Hour” and a play called “Sarcophagus,” about victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. When the playwright becomes the star: How one writer is jumping from her script onto the stage 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z I assume there are ongoing intelligence efforts that the film can't explore or explain, aimed at stopping or intercepting the transfer of nuclear technology. "Countdown to Zero": Valerie Plame Wilson's new anti-nuke crusade 2010-07-23T01:02:00Z Some experts proposed changing the protocol that allows the president to launch nuclear weapons without even consulting anyone else. Nuclear Nightmares 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z Then the nuclear reactor shuts down when the tidal wave reaches its seaside dome. Review: In ‘The Children,’ the Waters Rise and a Reckoning Comes Due 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z Surely they would have warned about the dangers of putting nuclear weapons in the hands of artificial intelligence? Search and destroy: can James Cameron revive the Terminator by killing its past? 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z A strange narrative sleight of hand associates Godzilla with nuclear calamity but muddies the actual causal relationship. Godzilla review – big, scary monsters but no bite in satire-stripped remake 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Thus, even the monster-eradication movies often hide a plea for "peace"/deliverance from incompetent military defenders and their nuclear disasters, whose byproducts are sci-fi's ubiquitous radioactive creatures. Creating a spectacle of slaughter at the movies: Ambush at Kamikaze Pass 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z The Allies engaged in terror bombing of Japanese and German cities in World War II. Look at the incendiary raids on Dresden and Tokyo and the nuclear holocausts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Essay: Should We Have War Crime Trials? 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Some of the current sites in the U.S. that contain the nuclear waste are woefully unsafe. John Oliver explores America’s frightening nuclear waste problem 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z Though the results had awkward aspects, that opera maintained a strong narrative impetus: Its plot was driven by a countdown to the first detonation of a nuclear bomb. Review: John Adams Mines Gold Rush History for His New Opera 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Esther wasn’t pleased by the state of affairs, nor was she always gracious to the women and children who threatened the carefully constructed appearance of a solid marriage and happy nuclear family. Louis Kahn: Extraordinary architect, complex family man 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z As they bide their time, some evacuees speak nostalgically about better days when the nuclear plant brought money into the town, creating jobs and helping businesses prosper. Fukushima film shows reality sinking in for 'nuclear refugees' 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z That same editorial subtlety enriches a section called “Too Much Information,” which takes us inside an online news organization in Denver that’s investigating the careless storage of nuclear weapons. With ‘Purity,’ Jonathan Franzen tackles the Web, mothers, the truth 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z If that’s not graphic enough, he also did one of Obama lighting the Constitution on fire, and another of Obama enjoying a round of golf as a nuclear bomb detonates in the background. Bask in the absurdity of this 2018 #MAGA gift guide 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z I noted that the press seats were at the back, near the officer carrying the "football", the nuclear trigger that accompanies a president everywhere. All the presidents' libraries 2010-10-26T10:00:00Z However, exiting a moving nuclear aircraft carrier is no walk in the park. Inside the mind of one “American Shooter” 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z Yet, when facing the possibility of climate change catastrophe, A.I. apocalypse and nuclear incineration, what is more relatable than multidimensional permacrisis? Apocalypse Anxiety, the Musical 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z “Everyone was worried about nuclear war and the arms race and the Cold War and that movie ‘The Day After’ about a nuclear holocaust. Critic?s Notebook: Heads Bowed in Grateful Memory 2011-03-16T22:13:38Z Countdown to Zero documents what would happen if a nuclear weapon was detonated over a major city, detailing how many would die in the initial five-mile radius. Nuclear threat 2011-06-23T07:43:08Z Marcus takes his vessel and its crew rogue, eventually seeking refuge on a remote tropical island and holding out their nuclear arsenal as a threat. Television Review: Andre Braugher Commands a Renegade Vessel in ‘Last Resort’ 2012-09-26T22:06:40Z These include the rifts between industrial and ceremonial time; Christian theology and shamanic religion; the nuclear family and tribal kinship structures. Louise Erdrich’s ‘The Sentence’ Considers the (Literally) Haunting Power of Books 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z Arguably, the invention of nuclear weapons has leveled the strategic playing field among states that possess them in much the way that the invention of firearms made hand-to-hand combat less important tactically. ‘On Grand Strategy’ Review: The War Against Decline and Fall 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z For instance, you seemed to predict the United States-Iran nuclear agreement that came to pass. How to Write TV in the Age of Trump: Showrunners Reveal All 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z “What, in 2019, is the equivalent of the nuclear standoff between the Russians and the United States?” HBO's "Watchmen" takes on white supremacy — Damon Lindelof promises to "troll the white savior" 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z “Along with the possibility of the extinction of mankind by nuclear war, a central problem of our age is the contamination of man’s total environment with substances of incredible potential for harm.” Sunday Reading: The Power of The New Yorker’s Investigative Reporting 2019-08-25T04:00:00Z They display a sheet detailing above ground nuclear tests in Nevada. Hollywood and the downwinders still grapple with nuclear fallout 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z Chernobyl, HBO and Sky Television’s brutal, critically acclaimed limited series on the 1986 nuclear disaster, won for best outstanding writing, best directing and limited series. Fleabag and Game of Thrones win big at Brit-dominated Emmys 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z Nuclear terrorism, nuclear war in the Middle East or South Asia, or grotesque accident — all are unfortunately plausible. "Countdown to Zero": Valerie Plame Wilson's new anti-nuke crusade 2010-07-23T01:02:00Z Iran said in January that it had produced the first nuclear fuel rod, and that it had to find a way to make them because Western sanctions prohibit their purchase from foreign markets. Marvel Comics plans wedding for gay hero Northstar 2012-05-22T16:46:00Z Begun in the deep freeze of the Cold War, as the world suffered its worst case of the nuclear nerves, the Bond films lifted grim reality airborne into wish-fulfillment. The James Bond Films at 50: A Golden Franchise for the Ages 2012-10-05T12:00:58Z From immigration and health care concerns to white supremacy — and let’s not forget the threat of nuclear war — there is plenty to be anxious about today. Anxious in the Trump era? You’re not alone 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z The catastrophe of World War II had taught them that art’s place in the world was modest alongside the realities of war, genocide and nuclear destruction. Review | How the Vietnam War changed art forever 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z “Unless a world leader is calling for my head it’s no big deal. If you have nuclear weapons then I’m a little worried … a few angry nerds don’t bother me.” Preacher: 'It's bigger than Breaking Bad. It's a romp' 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Yet Dell’s reckless willingness to threaten nuclear holocaust makes him difficult to embrace as a hero. Burt Lancaster in ‘Twilight’s Last Gleaming’ 2012-10-20T23:03:01Z Maybe zombies sell these days because, not unlike the sort of nuclear apocalypse tales that resonated throughout the Cold War, they posit an outside threat, a menace beyond the control of regular people. Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z It is a humble snack, fuel for late-night stakeouts, comfort after a day toiling at the nuclear power plant. Doughnuts in New York City from Carpe Donut NYC to Pies 'N' Thighs 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z ABC’s The Day After, about a nuclear war and its nightmarish repercussions, spurred a national debate. TV Goes to the Ends of the World 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z "If people are honestly concerned about nuclear power and the effects," said Peli. Horror film "Chernobyl Diaries" draws some protests 2012-05-25T18:35:44Z The company sought an architect who could assuage public fears about nuclear power’s impact on the environment with designs that integrated plants into the landscape. Claude Parent, Visionary Architect of the Oblique, Dies at 93 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z The two things that define our sovereignty – the royal family and our nuclear technology – are under attack. Is a catchy title really the best means of safeguarding nuclear security? 2010-12-19T00:06:14Z The suggestion, he said, was that the country was building a nuclear weapon and the film was clearly an attempt to go about "fanning the flames" of war. Julian Assange attacks new WikiLeaks movie 2013-01-24T11:20:29Z Mindel will backlight a face framed in gaudy red flora, and supersaturates the desert landscapes with a sickly glow that make them seem like nuclear testing grounds after the big boom. Oliver Stone's Savages: It's the Dope 2012-07-05T12:00:32Z Iranian officials brush off the impact of sanctions, while also proclaiming that Iranians will endure any hardship in support of their country's right to nuclear technology. Iran to announce nuclear progress: Ahmadinejad 2012-02-11T11:45:00Z The nuclear explosion sank 10 decommissioned ships and vaporized two others, scattering radioactive seawater all over the remaining vessels and island. A boatload of ideas are packed into Simon Winchester's literary cruise across Pacific Rim's recent history 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z The real-time nuclear stand-off no doubt contributed at least a little to the film's paranoid appeal. A new era of secrets and spies in Hollywood 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z Many victims are still alive, and there are people still suffering from the effects of the nuclear bombs. Japan is right to be angry at QI atom bomb joke 2011-02-08T15:30:00Z These included a set of four at Chernobyl, about 100 miles north of Kiev, intended to be “the greatest nuclear power station on earth.” Looking Again at the Chernobyl Disaster 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z He also supplied crucial insights into characters for “The Simpsons,” whose central focus became Homer, a fat, dumb and lazy safety inspector at a nuclear power plant. Sam Simon, co-creator of ‘The Simpsons,’ dies at 59 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z As far the undue influence of advocacy groups is concerned, the nuclear power industry has long been supported by climate change advocacy organizations such as NASA. Review: ‘Merchants of Doubt,’ Separating Science From Spin 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z As Madsen puts it, this is essentially asking people to remember that there's something they must forget, but perhaps that captures the worldwide cognitive dissonance around the issue of nuclear waste disposal. "Into Eternity": The quest to make us forget nuclear waste 2011-02-04T19:45:00Z It fell 70 feet, took a bounce and pierced the fuel tank of the missile, which was armed with a nuclear warhead three times more powerful than the bombs that leveled Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A movie revisits the night a nuclear warhead nearly destroyed Arkansas 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z He became a leader of a Harvard group opposing nuclear weapons and helped organize a demonstration in Washington in 1962. Todd Gitlin, prominent activist and thinker, dead at 79 2022-02-05T05:00:00Z As the nuclear deal between Iran and the West was falling into place, Italy’s then foreign minister, Paolo Gentiloni, visited Tehran. Sending its fabulous collection of Western modernism abroad 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z The AfD likes to popularise an idealised vision of the nuclear family, with father at work and mother raising children. From Le Pen to Alice Weidel: how the European far-right set its sights on women 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z “We urge Iran to take this opportunity to resolve all outstanding concerns about the nature of its nuclear program,” Wood said in a statement. Marvel Comics plans wedding for gay hero Northstar 2012-05-22T16:46:00Z Negotiations and sanctions over Iran’s nuclear program figured into whether they would be released. ‘A Sliver of Light:’ three Americans imprisoned in Iran 2014-03-19T18:53:32Z In his acceptance speech that year, Farhadi referred to tensions at the time between Iran and the United States over Tehran's nuclear program, and said the Iranian people "despise hostility and resentment." U.S. State Department tweets, then deletes congratulations for Iran Oscar win 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z But he also bought dolls’ houses, sarcophagi, historic record players, an apartment-size model circus, letters, photographs and the mahogany desk on which President John F. Kennedy signed a partial ban on nuclear testing in 1963. Is Nazi Loot Amid His 6,000 Oils, Some Grenades and Napoleon’s Toothbrush? 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z The 1986 Chernobyl meltdown has been deemed the worst nuclear disaster in history. Film festival showcases the soaring power of drone cinematography 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z Now it is building two sizeable civilian nuclear reactors that should help ease the country’s chronic energy shortfall. Geopolitical friends 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z But the bigger problem is that the anomaly feeds off energy, which a nuclear explosion would provide in abundance. Review | Michael Crichton’s classic thriller ‘The Andromeda Strain’ gets a deadly sequel 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z The West suspects that Iran may be heading toward production of nuclear weapons, imposing the sanctions to persuade Iran to drop its uranium enrichment project. Musicians: Iran's national orchestra disbanded 2012-10-29T13:34:07Z Needing help, Lenora finds Martin at an orphanage in communist Angola, where he’s been exiled after disobeying orders, at the end of “Deutschland 83,” in order to stave off a nuclear war. Review: ‘Deutschland 86,’ an East-West Thriller, Looks South 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z So when do you reach for those nuclear launch codes? Perspective | How to file a credit card dispute for your canceled vacation — and win 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z Sim also visited the Pacific Northwest, where mountain runoff used to cool a nearby contaminated nuclear reactor during the years of the Manhattan Project. Review | Should museums mount exhibitions with a moral agenda? Absolutely. If they do it well. 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z When India, its adjacent enemy, went nuclear, a Pakistani leader said, "We will make the bomb, even if we have to eat grass." Countdown to Zero: Valerie Plame at the End of the World 2010-08-02T16:30:00Z The team of volunteers manning the post were required to pass psychological profiling deeming they had the mental makeup for long periods underground in the event of a nuclear war, Mr. Combes said. Across Britain, Silent Relics of the Cold War 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z Obama, in his first speech abroad as president in 2009, said humanity should seek “the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons.” Nervous about nukes again? Here’s what you need to know about The Button. (There is no button.) 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z By any standard, this is a contest of no consequence in a remote place involving sweaty kids in ill-fitting clothes spouting off about social programs and nuclear war. Review | Ben Lerner’s brilliant new novel, ‘The Topeka School,’ captures America’s brutal divisions 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Shot in Leeds, “1974” and its follow-ups delve into the notoriety of “the North” against a backdrop of block houses, humble sitting rooms, nuclear power plants, offices and pubs. 2010-01-30T16:59:00Z On those occasions when his mother cooked, everything was “scorched as black as a witch’s heart,” except the sprouts, which had a “nuclear green glow.” Books of The Times: ?Gypsy Boy,? a Memoir by Mikey Walsh 2012-02-16T15:29:02Z He also wants to help President Clinton avoid a forecasted nuclear Armageddon originating with a terrorist group in the Middle East. Review | An ‘app whisperer’ teams up with time travelers in William Gibson’s ‘Agency’ 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z The traditional nuclear family—straight, married, and with biological children gotten the old-fashioned way—is becoming a thing of the past. Gay couples have happier kids 2012-09-04T01:00:00Z Each one of his Dendroids is made from standard industrial piping — the kind typically used by the pharmaceutical industry and nuclear power plants — that Mr. Paine bends, welds, grinds and polishes into seamless organic forms. Man of Steel?s Industrial Web, Mirroring Nature 2010-10-15T16:58:00Z This season is based in New York, where an assassination plot against the moderate president of an Iran-like Islamic nation could disrupt a nuclear disarmament agreement about to be signed at the United Nations. 2010-01-15T04:09:00Z O-levels form much of the anxiety that drives the protagonist in Sue Townsend's The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole, along with the constant threat of nuclear war. Culture Flash: exam results 2011-08-17T21:08:00Z The most impactful and useful news we heard this week was that the incoming transport had turned off their anti-matter drive and was now using standard nuclear propulsion. Outcasts: series one, episode seven 2011-03-06T23:27:01Z It was subversive, countercultural and punky, and used near-future and science-fiction stories as blackly humorous satires of contemporary events: in particular Thatcher’s Britain, the Cold War and the very real prospect of nuclear holocaust. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: 21 Great Buildings Throughout History 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z At a time when much of the world’s focus is on North Korea’s mercurial leadership and nuclear capabilities, this studio’s work is quietly making its way beyond the borders of that hermit kingdom. Cambodia’s New Angkor Museum, Created by a North Korean Art Factory 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z Edith and her friends see nuclear fallout as the start of a better world to come. Carolyn See, award-winning Southern California writer, dies at 82 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Sluizer set the film in Native American territory contaminated by nuclear tests and all but abandoned. River Phoenix rises again as final movie finished 2013-02-14T16:13:49Z He said Pelosi “called me to inquire about the president’s ability to launch nuclear weapons. I sought to assure her that nuclear launch is governed by a very specific and deliberate process.” Milley defends calls to Chinese at end of Trump presidency 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z A tour guide drives the group into the city of Pripyat, the former home to workers at the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, a place that was evacuated after the disaster. ArtsBeat: What Scares Oren Peli? 2012-05-25T19:16:26Z Her only real misstep was in not making it clear that, in instances such as the one that went nuclear, she was expressing only her own opinions and not speaking for ESPN. Perspective | The fight over Jemele Hill’s tweets won’t go away. It’s about truth and race in the Trump era. 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z Now, Americans are meeting a son that eagerly plays surrogate to a father who has long made a habit of treating his nuclear family as a group of character witnesses. The most scrutinized father-son relationship in American history 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z The human rights criticism that ensued from the Obama administration did not sit well with the Saudis, especially after Washington’s nuclear deal with Tehran left them feeling unsure about their longstanding American security guarantees. ‘MBS’ Chronicles the Shockingly Young, Powerful and Ruthless Saudi Crown Prince 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z I had to write two sequels because the people who were responsible for those horrors and remember they were created by nuclear weapons had to be wiped out themselves.' James Herbert interview: from the archive, 14 February 1993 2013-03-21T10:48:00Z Doubtless there are those who will object that climate change, nuclear war, gamma ray bursts and pandemics aren’t subjects to joke about. That’s All, Folks: A Serious Joke Book About Climate Change 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z It was in April 1986 that probably the world’s worst nuclear accident happened, just over the border in northern Ukraine – a dramatisation of the disaster is currently showing on Sky Atlantic. Chernobyl: the wildlife haven created when people left 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z The ship was forced back and the test was eventually held, but the action drew global attention; months later, nuclear testing in the Aleutians was ended. Review: ‘How to Change the World’ Traces the Roots of Greenpeace 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z It documents the Manhattan Project and the nuclear tests that took place there in a chillingly matter-of-fact way. Artists turn L.A. gallery into a museum of nuclear dystopia 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z Now, the officials said, "it seems Iran is focusing squarely on influential elite audiences in Delhi, with a view to shaping the debate of India's International Atomic Energy Agency policy and the nuclear deal". WikiLeaks cables show warming relationship between India and US 2010-12-16T21:30:23Z But going from being a museum that was free to all to a museum with a mandatory admission for nearly a third of its visitors is the nuclear option for raising revenue. Perspective | The Metropolitan Museum’s new admission policy sticks it to tourists 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z Outside the world of crime, the stakes are just as high — or even higher, in the case of “The Bomb,” Fred Kaplan’s engaging new history of nuclear strategy and warfare. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z Lyrically, the album takes aim at imperialist governments, phoney cultural constructs and families both royal and nuclear. The Knife: 'Music history is written by privileged white men' 2013-03-23T06:00:00Z I myself laughed helplessly when Corbyn first proposed his concept of nuclear submarines minus their missiles, but I am not prime minister of Great Britain. Clive James: ‘Coogan and Brydon are the funniest couple since Laurel and Hardy’ 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z Yes, Indeed Your auto insurance policy probably has clauses specifying whether you are covered for damage from missiles, falling objects, riots, civil war, earthquakes, hail, radioactive contamination, discharge of a nuclear weapon. Movie Review: ‘Fast & Furious 6,’ With Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson 2013-05-23T23:07:53Z He observed people “making errors – sometimes serious ones – with mechanical devices… computer operating systems… even airplanes and nuclear power plants.” Do guns or people kill people? 2013-03-06T13:12:00Z Israel, widely believed to be the Middle East's only nuclear power, and the West fear Iran's enrichment of uranium is aimed at developing atomic weapons. New dad Nick Lachey to release a lullaby album 2013-02-26T17:01:05Z The report presented a trove of intelligence pointing to research activities in Iran of logical use in developing the means and technologies needed to assemble nuclear weapons, should it decide to do so. Iran to let U.N. nuclear sleuths visit military site 2012-03-06T13:19:00Z This nuclear thriller from Matthew Reilly — the Australian author of numerous adventure novels — is clunky and barely coherent anytime there’s not a fight scene. ‘Interceptor’ Review: Failure to Launch 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z He did tell a child their parents would be obliterated in a nuclear disaster. How we made The Inbetweeners 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z I was on Aldermaston marches from the age of 10, I was very, very aware of the nuclear threat and I grew up in a leftwing, outsider, academic milieu. Sally Potter: 'I dreamed about the nuclear threat most nights' 2012-10-04T19:30:02Z Niv Sultan stars as Tamar Rabinyan, a Mossad agent who was born in Iran but raised in Israel, sent on a high-risk mission to sneak into Iran and disable a nuclear reactor. Perspective | Expecting little, our TV critic found 25 shows worth watching this fall. (Yes, really!) 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z How do you think nuclear proliferation should be managed, something which seems particularly relevant considering North Korea's announcement today? Glenn Greenwald's reader Q&A: the highlights 2013-01-24T23:07:00Z Netanyahu was speaking against the emerging nuclear deal President Obama is pursuing with Iran. Watch Jon Stewart Comapre Republicans' Welcome of Israeli Leader to a Sex Act 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z The warning included words like “nuclear power plant,” which obviously got people riled up. This terrifying emergency warning popped up during primetime TV 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z In 2011, with the dual crises of the Arab Spring and the Japanese nuclear meltdown, even my sainted husband's patience wore thin. Motherlode Blog: Working Parents: Be Patient. And Relentless. 2012-07-02T16:50:55Z “I would not necessarily oppose this city’s destruction by nuclear fireball, even if I am in it at the time,” he wrote in his Date Lab profile. Date Lab: He is a proud Trump supporter. She was not turned off. 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z In his poem, Grass called for "unhindered and permanent control of Israel's nuclear capability and Iran's atomic facilities through an international body." Grass dismisses Israeli travel ban 2012-04-11T18:36:07Z When I wrote, “You’ve got your nuclear boots / and your drip-dry glove,” I envisioned the boots and gloves as a cool ’50s fashion statement. The Story Behind the Cars’ ‘My Best Friend’s Girl’ 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z It’s a pointed rebuke to the Trump administration’s nuclear threats and promise to build another wall. An American artist's provocative tribute to a 1970s German radical 2017-11-11T05:00:00Z His overall concept, showing Faust as a physicist disgusted by the nuclear destruction of Hiroshima, and returning to his own youth at the time of the first world war, works well enough. Faust 2010-09-20T21:00:00Z Here are issues – civil rights nuclear disarmament, radical feminism, the dystopian imagination, secularisation – with which we are still grappling. October 1962: the month that modern culture was born 2012-09-29T22:12:23Z Postwar American science fiction is overflowing with thinly disguised freak-outs about Communism and nuclear Armageddon. A Science-Fiction Classic Still Smolders 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z In his final years he won acclaim from the sorts of protesters he once despised for railing, sensibly, against nuclear overkill. Books of The Times: ?George F. Kennan? by John Lewis Gaddis - Review 2011-11-23T00:16:55Z If climate change, nuclear standoffs, Russian trolls, terrorist threats and Donald Trump in the White House don’t cause you feelings of impending doom, you might think about artificial intelligence. What if the Government Gave Everyone a Paycheck? 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z A nun and Catholic peace activist who spent two years in federal prison while in her 80s after breaking into a government security complex to protest nuclear weapons. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Your mother and father exercised theirs in their day, obviously, since they’re now the “expected” hosts of your nuclear family. Carolyn Hax: Demands won’t bring brother back into the holiday fold 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z But too soon we are thrust into King’s symbolic, supernatural tussle between good and evil, involving a few too many characters and subplots, up to and including the heist of a nuclear bomb. Review | A new TV version of ‘The Stand’ pits good against evil after a deadly pandemic. Been there, done that. 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z He infuriated Washington by challenging claims that Saddam Hussein had a secret nuclear program. Nobel Peace Prize winner ElBaradei writing memoir 2010-03-16T17:50:00Z It takes money, raw materials and large facilities to develop nuclear weapons. Turning worm 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z The 1967 Outer Space Treaty, signed by the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., was really a disarmament agreement, in which both nations agreed not to put nuclear weapons in space. A New Space Race, for Lawyers 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z I imagined that the mechanics of the nuclear war would be dominant, rather than the fateful decisions leading up to it, but in fact it was the opposite way around. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Imagining the Unimaginable in a Nuclear-War Novel 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z The ground there is a pockmarked, almost lunar landscape after 928 nuclear tests above and below ground between its opening and the final test in 1992. Top 10 things to do in Las Vegas 2011-02-21T19:24:04Z Radioactive fallout plumed over the area but the public was never warned, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a publication founded in 1945 by nuclear physicists concerned about the dangers of atomic weapons. The Day the Sun Rose Twice: A Tour of Atomic New Mexico 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z It targeted a specific brand and model of electronic controller called a PLC, in effect overriding the unit’s safety features and causing nuclear centrifuges to spin out of control until they broke apart or exploded. “Science fiction cyber-war is here”: Alex Gibney on “Zero Days” and Stuxnet, the secret weapon that got away 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z In Iranian terms, that means offering some possible accommodations — such as opening to greater U.N. inspections — but sticking to its right to enrich uranium as a signatory of U.N. nuclear treaties. Marvel Comics plans wedding for gay hero Northstar 2012-05-22T16:46:00Z She tries to bring about nuclear war in “The Fate of the Furious,” holding Dom’s baby son hostage and killing the baby’s mother in the process. Wait, Who’s Fast, Who’s Furious? 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z Her equation of big dams and nuclear bombs—couldn’t she have been more nuanced about that? The Prescient Anger of Arundhati Roy 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z Say what you will about the Trumps, they’ve always been a real nuclear family – albeit in a Three Mile Island kind of way. Move over Sean Hannity, meet Lara Trump – the president keeps the propaganda in the family 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z One reason: The detonation of 100 nuclear warheads — there are about 15,000 on the planet right now — could kill 2 billion people, according to International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. Nervous about nukes again? Here’s what you need to know about The Button. (There is no button.) 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z And their 13-year-old friend, Iris, has brought them to a difficult question: What happens when a player decides to go nuclear just a few moves into the game? Trial and error: Seattle’s board game designers and players work out bugs together with playtests 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z The summit, which focused largely on nuclear disarmament, saw talks collapse at the last minute. Michael Douglas in talks to play Ronald Reagan 2012-08-30T16:11:04Z In the last section of his book, about the idea of reducing the world’s nuclear warheads to zero, he declares, “I think a discovery I made in the nuclear vault might play a role.” Books of The Times: Thinking the Unthinkable Again in a New Nuclear Age 2011-03-01T16:45:09Z Because of its proximity to Eastern Europe — a Soviet missile would have taken only four minutes from detection to reaching its target — many in Britain felt the Cold War nuclear threat with a visceral immediacy. Across Britain, Silent Relics of the Cold War 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z If the prospect of nuclear war chills your bones, you may want to skip this dark Cold War satire. What’s on TV Monday: ‘King in the Wilderness’ and ‘The Good Karma Hospital’ 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z They were flanked by backup dancers wearing gas masks, and images of nuclear warning signs flashed on screens behind them. Undaunted by Air Raids, a Ukrainian Duo Gets Ready for Eurovision 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z ‘I find nuclear war quite comforting,” says David Mitchell when we meet. David Mitchell: ‘I see myself as a coward’ 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Rao said the GOI was "refining" its legislation on civil nuclear liability and was committed to implementing the Civil Nuclear Cooperation Agreement. US embassy cables: Americans reassure India over Afghanistan 2010-12-16T21:30:36Z After the nuclear accident, many villages in Ukraine and Belarus, with a combined 180,000 residents, were abandoned. Heads Up: Near Chernobyl, Touring a Disaster 2012-05-25T20:11:47Z But this latest round of sanctions, intended to seize or freeze their assets in the West, is hitting them like “a nuclear bomb,” Browder says. Yacht justice: A new front in the war drags Russia’s oligarchs into the spotlight 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z The threat of nuclear catastrophe might have receded, but environmental disaster presses closer than ever. Club rules: how London dressed up for the 80s 2013-06-22T07:00:12Z Many of Slayer's songs addressed serious subjects – serial killers, nuclear war, the uprising in Tiananmen Square, Nazi death camps, psychopaths, the Apocalypse. Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman dead at 49 2013-05-02T23:22:00Z Overall, as presently imagined, the Trump budget would hike the Pentagon’s cut of the pie, and related spending on veterans’ affairs, homeland security, and nuclear weapons to an astounding 68% of federal discretionary spending. The American way of war is a budget-breaker 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z "People don't want to think about the nuclear issue." Japanese film "Homeland" tiptoes into Fukushima nuclear debate 2014-03-05T02:22:56Z Khan, who gave Pakistan its first nuclear bomb, sold nuclear secrets to North Korea and is a patron of domestic cricket. Balls of fury 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Passersby might take the sounds for the warning alert for an overheated nuclear reactor. Lollapalooza Day 3: Rain, more rain, and a Foo Fighters finale 2011-08-08T05:32:00Z She’s kidding, but in fact the area around the forsaken Chernobyl nuclear plant in Russia has become a sort of animal refuge. In the galleries: Where the wild things are 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z The writer is the author of “Nuclear Cover-Up: Censorship in the U.S.A.?” and other articles on nuclear energy. Letters to the Editor 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z These picks cover the devastation of tsunamis, earthquakes and wildfires; the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918; mass extinctions; the potential for nuclear annihilation. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z Suddenly, nuclear war begins, and his friend, something of a mystic, offers him a metaphysical bargain to save the world—and it involves sex. “Interstellar” Is a Flowery Greeting Card 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z And — unless I missed something — it seems that he never actually told Saul for sure that Iran wasn’t breaking the nuclear arms deal. ‘Homeland,’ Season 6, Episode 8: The Never-Ending Trials of Quinn 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z In the dark, I would conjure thoughts of death — my loved ones dying, nuclear war, biblical plagues, my own demise. My Klonopin fog 2012-07-28T22:00:00Z The stop-motion saga stars his mock rock duo, Tenacious D, as they deal with the aftermath of a nuclear catastrophe. Jack Black really wants you to see his new movie. He paid for it himself. 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z But the two young leads had almost nuclear chemistry, and young women identified with Bella’s determination to choose her own fate – as well as her realistic Seattle-grunge clothing choices. Ten years of Twilight: the extraordinary feminist legacy of the panned vampire saga 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z Those big problems would include nuclear risk, climate change, sustainable resource use and inequality around the world. Jared Diamond: Here are the four ways America is ruining itself right now 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z It also went after Fox News reporter James Rosen and named him as a “co-conspirator” in a leak about North Korea’s nuclear program. Perspective | Shocked by Trump aggression against reporters and sources? The blueprint was drawn by Obama. 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z The horizons on which nuclear holocaust or global warming are gathering are just distant enough to remain abstract, and they are at least theoretically under human control. Therapy under lockdown: 'I’m just as terrified as my patients are' 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z Not a nuclear explosion or a Martian invasion but a financial meltdown. REVIEW: The Rover Goes Weirdly Western Down Under 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z With catastrophic climate change bearing down on us, nuclear power has been promoted by some as an obvious solution, but this sobering history urges us to look hard at that bargain for what it is. ‘Atoms and Ashes,’ a Frightening Tour of Six Nuclear Accidents 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z A timely point, then, to release Countdown to Zero, a sobering look at how likely a nuclear incident is and what its effect would be. Nuclear threat 2011-06-23T07:43:08Z There, amid spookily forsaken homes and cars, he talks about the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, as well as the meltdowns, and says he understands why people are afraid of nuclear power. Movie Review: ‘Pandora’s Promise’ Advocates Nuclear Energy 2013-06-11T22:05:48Z Her screenwriting credits included "Heartburn," the nuclear power drama "Silkwood" and the romantic comedy "When Harry Met Sally ..." Nora Ephron, writer-filmmaker, dies at 71 2012-06-27T03:28:11Z Zhenia, a Ukrainian migrant worker born exactly seven years before the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, is no otherworldly idiot — though the condescension he faces suggests his employers believe otherwise. ‘Never Gonna Snow Again’ Review: You’re Getting Warmer 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z I wish I had gone nuclear the way I’d always imagined I would in this scenario. The moment our marriage was over: 'I shook as I held his cellphone' 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z It may excite those involved but it doesn't help national morale to remind us that, where nuclear material is concerned, the stakes are terrifyingly high. Is a catchy title really the best means of safeguarding nuclear security? 2010-12-19T00:06:14Z A maximalist, Mr. Mann crams a great deal into the movie’s fleet two-hour running time, including the nuclear mishap, a commodities run-up, some cyber-slapstick with the National Security Agency and the specter of 9/11. ‘Blackhat,’ a Cyberthriller Starring Chris Hemsworth 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Despite all this, North Korea continues to develop “both nuclear and conventional weapons.” In Bob Woodward’s ‘Rage,’ a Reporter and a President From Different Universes 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z Ambiguous media reports, cloudy government messages, and conflicting health prognoses have led some of Japan’s population to believe there is no nuclear crisis. Back to Fukushima: “It was all very apocalyptic” 2013-05-28T17:18:00Z Tehran says it needs the program to produce fuel for future nuclear reactors and medical radioisotopes needed for cancer patients. Report: Iran begins uranium enrichment at new site as Guard threatens key strait closure 2012-01-08T12:44:00Z It is debatable whether “Silkwood” had any tangible effect on the nuclear power industry. Exposing Injustices, the Real-Life Kind 2011-07-29T03:43:03Z Its unconvincing love triangle has to compete with a tangle of other lugubrious threads: the nuclear gamesmanship between the United States and Soviet Union; the posturing and pageantry of the international chess scene. Review | ‘Chess’ has the best cast of any musical this season. But the show itself has issues. 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z Japanese films in the 1950s often dealt with the ravages of nuclear war; all those Godzilla flicks were expressions of Japanese horror at what had befallen their countrymen at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Invasion of the dumbasses 2011-08-11T20:32:01Z His scheme is to save the world from nuclear holocaust by manufacturing his own act of destruction, which will force warring nations to coöperate. “Watchmen,” “The Boys,” and the False Hope That Superheroes Can Save Us 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z But the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency reported in November that it had evidence suggesting Iran had worked on designing an atomic bomb. EU bans Iranian oil, Tehran responds with threats 2012-01-23T12:51:00Z “Families are restricted to a nuclear family which is a family group consisting of a father, mother and their children.” Jacqueline Woodson on Africa, America and Slavery’s Fierce Undertow 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z Or it can be the mass deaths of nuclear Armageddon; the road trippers drive by the Hanford nuclear plant, created as part of the Manhattan Project. Review: In ‘California,’ a Road Trip and a Detour Into Darkness 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z But Serling didn’t live in the past, often using his platform to comment on his era’s anxieties, especially nuclear proliferation in episodes like “Time Enough at Last,” “Third From the Sun” and “The Shelter.” ‘The Twilight Zone’: Here’s Why We Still Care 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z Stanley Kubrick’s Dr Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb set the table for irony, opening with serene classical music under images of nuclear fighter pilots. Why Netflix's 'skip intro' feature is bad news for classic films 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z Despite an 80 percent reduction since the Cold War, American and Russian nuclear arsenals still number in the thousands. Is Nuclear War Inevitable? 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z “Falling Out,” the final installment in the group’s environmental trilogy, was created in response to Japan’s 2011 nuclear disaster. 8 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z “That is the kind of fight you expect to see in a Wendy’s parking lot not between two nuclear super powers.” Trevor Noah takes a closer look at the beach brawl between India and China’s armies 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z “He is trying to destroy life on Earth, menacing everyone with nuclear weapons.” We, the Writers? A Global Literary Congress Meets in New York. 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z At the time, Ukraine boasted the world’s third-largest stockpile of nuclear warheads after Russia and the United States. In Ukraine, a radioactive nuclear ghost town near Chernobyl is a hot destination 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z Then, a lone “crazy” drops a nuclear bomb somewhere in Central America. Carolyn See, award-winning Southern California writer, dies at 82 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Of course, TV, unlike nuclear physics, is not a science. 'Manhattan' traces a culture of secrecy, nuclear anxiety 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z Is it yet another demolition of the “Leave It to Beaver” ideal of the American family and its replacement by a technologically engineered reinvention of the nuclear family? Movie Review: ?Jesus Henry Christ,? With Toni Collette and Michael Sheen 2012-05-03T22:46:26Z Obama was asked about it as he announced progress on an effort to clean up and remove nuclear material from a former testing ground in Kazakhstan, the former Semipalatinsk Test Site. Obama clarifies hot mic comment made to Russian president 2012-03-27T07:21:00Z For “Riddley Walker,” for example, you will have to decipher the version of English that Russell Hoban suggests would be spoken and written around Canterbury three millennia after a nuclear holocaust. Review | ‘B-Side Books’ adds to your must-read stack with the best books you’ve never heard of 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z One pound-shop padlock was clipped to the top of the Duga, the giant structure that once scanned the skies over Chernobyl for nuclear missiles. Radioactive ice-cream and penis graffiti: how toxic TV tourists took over Chernobyl 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z The Mumbai depicted in Manil Suri's third novel swells under the promise of nuclear attack with the same mixture of bombast, absurdity and yearning. The City of Devi by Manil Suri – review 2013-03-21T09:00:01Z On opening night, the volunteer, Steve, revealed himself to be a nuclear engineer and amateur ukulele player with a sideline as a biohacker. Shared camaraderie in ‘We Know How You Die!’ 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Pinchin's eponymous kings are Atlantic bluefin tuna, marine predators that can weigh well over a thousand pounds — "imagine a grand piano shaped like a nuclear weapon," as Pinchin puts it. In bluefin tuna, fisheries science is never neat 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z “That is the basis for the beginning of a new cooperation,” said Saeed Jalili, the top Iranian nuclear negotiator, who arrived in Baghdad late Monday. Marvel Comics plans wedding for gay hero Northstar 2012-05-22T16:46:00Z Among "Problems Still Pending" are drugs, special interests, the threat of nuclear war, and intelligence agencies. In 'A Full Life,' Jimmy Carter at 90 remains a wise truth teller 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Once again, nuclear disaster became more than a grim spectre this year, ushering in a new wave of panic and serving as a queasy reminder of the threat of nuclear war. This week's new exhibitions 2011-07-15T23:07:37Z “He’s brought us to the brink of nuclear war,” Steyer said, over a montage of Trump’s early days in office. Want to impeach the president? This billionaire is on the case. 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z Poetry by Washington state’s poet laureate, who grew up near the Hanford nuclear reservation and later worked there as an engineer. Washington State Book Awards honor six local books 2013-09-05T02:10:38Z One of the crucial arguments of “Countdown to Zero” is that while nuclear arsenals might have worked as a cold war-era deterrent, they have no place in a world as volatile as ours. Film: Two New Films About the Nuclear Threat 2010-07-18T01:33:00Z Ned tracks her down, demanding that they return to Alaska to play-act adorable nuclear family as he launches his political career. Lydia Millet is not as popular as she should be. This novel will change that. 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z Iran, host to many unique cultural treasures largely unseen by western eyes, is expecting a significant rise in the number of tourists visiting the country in the wake of this week’s historic nuclear deal. Tourism to Iran set to rise sharply after nuclear deal 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z Ant I chose because, if there's a nuclear explosion, the ants will survive. The return of Ant music 2011-02-23T08:29:32Z In so doing, the No Nukes musicians trained a spotlight on the ills of nuclear energy that remains unmatched into the present day. Springsteen's "Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts" has the best live version of "The Promised Land" 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z If he understood his inherent value maybe he wouldn’t have to prove he has the bigger nuclear button. America Ferrera: By the Book 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z After three years in the Army — he was stationed in the Marshall Islands, where tests of nuclear bombs were being conducted — he became an assistant to Jule Styne, the composer. Bo Goldman, Oscar-Winning Screenwriter, Dies at 90 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z She’s the ancient god of an island tribe, summoned from her slumber, fried by reckless nuclear testing and hellbent on laying waste to the city of Tokyo. Apocalypse bow-wow: the new breed of arthouse animal horror 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z He and Netrebko made headlines recently when they said they would not participate in a long-planned Metropolitan Opera tour of Japan, because of the uncertainty about radiation from the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant. Maltese tenor Calleja: "My best is now" 2011-07-21T13:57:52Z The program is part of a theme week on PBS that also includes “Containment,” an “Independent Lens” film about nuclear waste, on Monday; and “The Nuclear Option,” a “Nova” episode about nuclear power, on Wednesday. A Chilling PBS Documentary Shows How Mistakes Are Made 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z Growing up in the nuclear age left an impression on Else, now 78. ‘Oppenheimer’ Fans Are Rediscovering a 40-Year-Old Documentary 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z His signal achievement, he said, had been the decision to station nuclear cruise missiles in West Germany and his pursuit of the Strategic Defense Initiative, the missile shield program also known as Star Wars. America’s forgotten war 2012-11-23T15:00:00Z Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by accident or miscalculation or by madness. 'Countdown to Zero': A scary documentary about nuclear weaponry 2010-07-29T20:32:00Z And maybe help defuse an escalating threat of global nuclear war. Turn the Korean DMZ into a bridge of peace? Why major artists say the idea isn't crazy 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z “With this, I set it up so that we both have the nuclear option. It’s assured annihilation the whole time.” Dax Shepard Is Not Afraid to Direct Naked 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Kozlovsky, who was born the year before the nuclear disaster, was initially dismissive. Dramatizing the Chernobyl Disaster, for its Survivors 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z “Our beer named Bikini Atoll was not created to mock or trivialize the nuclear testing that took place in the Marshall Islands,” the brewery wrote on its social media accounts. 'Bikini Atoll' beer from Dallas Brewery upsets Pacific Islanders, Marshall Islands government agencies 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z A former fighter pilot, the Marine general was known for his expertise in the more highly technical areas of cyberwarfare and America's nuclear enterprise. Former general charged with false statements in leak probe 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z “I am so proud of the work the Portsmouth Naval Yard does for the Navy in overhauling our nuclear submarines,” she said. Last stand of the Republican moderate 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z As the reassuring title of Tom Lehrer’s contemplation of nuclear annihilation puts it, “We Will All Go Together When We Go.” Music Review: At 92nd Street Y, the Art of the Satiric Comedy Comes Alive 2010-05-09T22:15:00Z Or perhaps, he adds in a throwaway aside, “a bad day on the golf course for a sociopath with access to the nuclear codes.” How Rupert Murdoch Became the King of England 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z The cover's lyrics range from including the L.A. riots and Fukushima nuclear disaster, in addition to pop culture events and notable figures from the past 34 years. Here's the "We Didn’t Start the Fire" revamp with lyrics covering 1989-2023 no one asked for 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z As the scale of the Fukushima disaster has become clearer, the mood in Japan has started to turn against nuclear power. Music: Japan's New Wave of Protest Songs 2011-06-30T11:22:09Z The ambitious comic series by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, which first appeared in 1986, imagined a realistic group of “costumed vigilantes” enmeshed in the nuclear arms race and Vietnam War, among other geopolitical conflicts. Who Will Watch ‘Watchmen’? 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Aladeen, having alarmed the world with his human-rights abuses and his nuclear ambitions, is summoned to New York to address the United Nations. Movie Review: ?The Dictator,? With Sacha Baron Cohen 2012-05-15T16:30:09Z It’s a gift not just of human connection, but of theatrical compaction, a nuclear pressure he applies to people in distress. Review: Rude T-Shirts and Rude Awakenings in ‘A Bright New Boise’ 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z The project was opposed by many on France’s political left and in the country’s emerging ecological movement, but Mr. Parent felt compelled to accept the reality that nuclear power represented the future. Claude Parent, Visionary Architect of the Oblique, Dies at 93 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z In the distance, a tiny nuclear plant nests in a curve of the river. Books of Style: Turning the Pages on 2010 2010-12-18T00:19:28Z Cole’s office has a picture of a nuclear blast on the wall behind him, a portrait of Kafka on a wall in front of him. “Twin Peaks: The Return” Episodes 3 and 4: David Lynch Is Back 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z Underneath it all, however, was the creaking foundation of a Soviet empire whose nuclear program was governed by a combination of “ruthless expedience” and a perpetual fear of humiliation. An Enthralling and Terrifying History of the Nuclear Meltdown at Chernobyl 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z Who gets to live in a bunker after a deadly nuclear event has ravaged the planet? Movie Review: ‘After the Dark,’ Directed by John Huddles 2014-02-06T22:15:57Z Ellsberg, best known for his role in leaking the Pentagon Papers, sounds an impassioned alarm about nuclear dangers and reminds us that the risks Kahn vivified still exist. Is Nuclear War Inevitable? 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z That unfortunate time she warned us about Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein’s supposed nuclear ambitions by saying, “We don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.” Review | What was George W. Bush really like? A novelist whips up a campy portrait. 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z Davidson catalogues the internal and external pressures that are building up – the looming crisis over Iran's nuclear programme figures prominently among the latter. After the Sheikhs: The Coming Collapse of the Gulf Monarchies by Christopher M Davidson 2012-12-28T22:55:04Z “Last Week Tonight” then played a clip of Trump comparing America’s nuclear capabilities with that of Russia. WATCH: John Oliver doesn’t understand Trump’s budget proposal because he doesn’t speak “fluent toddler psychopath” 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z When humans try to deactivate it, it fights back by launching a nuclear attack. In the Movies, A.I. Wants to Help … Until It Doesn’t 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z He last was in theaters in 2002's "The Sum of All Fears," about black market nuclear weapons and a white supremacy conspiracy with Ben Affleck as the spy. Clancy's Cold War hero Jack Ryan gets film reboot with familiar foe 2014-01-17T23:48:35Z Mutually assured destruction is a deterrent that only works when there are two superpowers with the same nuclear capability. The TV Watch: Surviving CBS’s Fight With Time Warner Cable 2013-08-04T19:37:42Z Public mistrust of atomic power remains high, however, and Funahashi says he will keep making "Nuclear Nation" films to show the human side of the nuclear equation. Fukushima film shows reality sinking in for 'nuclear refugees' 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z The novel centers on a nuclear family, untaken yet split apart. The Leftovers: Tom Perrotta's Rapture 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z Clinton herself has needled his temperament, warning citizens that if someone gets “under his very thin skin” as president, he could start a nuclear war — a reminder to take these jokes seriously. Why comedy as a weapon could be such a force in the 2016 election 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Dancing with the nuclear codes, and Rick Perry, in the Department of Energy. The stories to read to be the smartest person at the Thanksgiving table 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z The film's underlying message is that when mankind abuses nature and the environment, there will be dire consequences - which in this case are tsunamis, earthquakes and nuclear meltdown. Godzilla film 'harks back to Jaws and Alien' 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z President Obama's visit to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, which marked the first time a U.S. president had visited the site where nuclear bombs were first used in warfare, was derided as an apology tour. "Barbie" vs. "Oppenheimer": U.S. foreign policy has a lot to learn from this summer’s blockbusters 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z Sir Adrian warns the prime minister that the supposed North Korean denuclearization is a scam — that if they have destroyed one nuclear facility they have simply hidden another one elsewhere. Review | At 80, Frederick Forsyth has produced a classic thriller that’s also eerily relevant 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z Recently Ms. Reid got into a spat with David French, a conservative writer, after she mischaracterized a story he wrote about the risk of a nuclear attack on urban centers. How Joy Reid of MSNBC Became a Heroine of the Resistance 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z But her marsh is under threat- there are plans to build a nuclear power plant on it. Homecoming by Michael Morpurgo - review 2012-11-08T15:00:00Z Obama also used his speech to call on North Korea, which plans a rocket launch next month, to curb its nuclear ambitions or else face further international isolation. Obama vows nuke cuts, warns N. Korea, Iran 2012-03-26T03:10:00Z He was born in Chelyabinsk, Russia, but moved to Slavutych, Ukraine, two years later when his father, a physicist, was sent to work on the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. A Pop Star Tried to Reconcile Russia and Ukraine. War Ruined That. 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z "Barbie" closes with a big laugh and a toy parade through its end credits, staving off night terrors related to a nuclear apocalypse. We did Barbenheimer, the "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" double feature. You should too 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z “I will not be a happy trigger like some people might be,” Trump said on the “Today” show in April, adding: “I will be the last to use nuclear weapons.” Nervous about nukes again? Here’s what you need to know about The Button. (There is no button.) 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z Following a score that often looks more like geometry homework than conventional notation, it forces an ensemble of 52 string instruments to produce relentless, nerve-jangling sounds that can suggest nuclear annihilation. Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish Composer With Cinematic Flair, Dies at 86 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z The nuclear waste in that tuna roll Topics: OnEarth.org, , , Nuclear Power, Radiation, Sushi, , , This article originally appeared on OnEarth.org. The nuclear waste in that tuna roll 2013-03-17T18:00:00Z The first volume, “No Immediate Danger,” deals mostly with the nuclear disaster at Fukushima; the second, “No Good Alternative,” takes on coal, oil and natural gas. William T. Vollmann Would Like a Word or Two About Climate Change. Or 1,200 Pages. 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z Going cable is the "nuclear option," according to Bernstein Research Senior Analyst Todd Juenger. Aereo, broadcasters await Supreme Court ruling 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z After all, few Americans had seen an actual nuclear blast, while images of its impact were strictly controlled by government. Bruce Conner, parsing the nuclear age 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Everything that happens thereafter is bog-standard for a story of this nature, right down to the slightly anachronistic and painfully generic nuclear family at its core. The Latest in Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z In the run-up to the second Iraq war, he was invited by the American government to travel to Niger, to determine if that country's government was selling nuclear material to Saddam's Iraq. Fair Game ? review 2011-03-10T15:00:00Z It is my belief that the US is not a leader in the world because we have more nuclear weapons than anybody; it’s the export of culture. Spike Lee: 'Race relations today are the direct result of having a black president' 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z “A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons,” Clinton said during her convention speech July 28 in Philadelphia. Nervous about nukes again? Here’s what you need to know about The Button. (There is no button.) 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z The idea here was to swaddle yourself in layers of stretchy black fabric to give the impression of having just crawled out of a nuclear bunker wrapped in salvage. Club rules: how London dressed up for the 80s 2013-06-22T07:00:12Z The nuclear processing plant brought down by the stuxnet virus in Iran, in real life, was done by USB drives carried in by duped employees/ agents. ‘Blackhat,’ a Cyberthriller Starring Chris Hemsworth 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z This kind of frankness is not typical in film-making, where behind-the-scenes negotiations tend to be guarded like nuclear codes, but Schrader has a reputation for candour. Paul Schrader: ‘I’ve made some important films. Dog Eat Dog is not one of them’ 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z In Japan’s March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and subsequent nuclear meltdown, Aldrich found widely uneven death rates in coastal communities: places where everyone survived, and places where 1 in 10 residents died. Is ‘social distancing’ the wrong term? Expert prefers ‘physical distancing,’ and the WHO agrees. 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z He was a hostage, taken in the early days of the high-stakes negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program and released upon their conclusion. Jason Rezaian Recounts His 544 Days of Captivity in Iran 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z Determined to maintain and expand its monopoly on nuclear weapons, it was taking over remote islands in the Pacific, forcing the inhabitants to leave, and turning the islands into deadly playgrounds for more atomic tests. Howard Zinn: “The American Empire has always been a bipartisan project” 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z The solution will dissolve more than 5 million pounds of uranium deposits, freeing them to be sucked back out and processed for nuclear fuel. EPA reverses water pollution decision after lobbyist steps in 2013-03-13T22:51:00Z We are a microcosm of the changes in family dynamics in general – from a nuclear family to a large, messy, blended one. Lucy Worsley: My family values 2013-04-12T11:59:01Z During a segment from C-SPAN’s Washington Journal on Iran nuclear negotiations, a guy claiming to be “Jack Strickland” phoned in and took viewers back to the glory days of NBC programming. The “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” played a hilarious prank on C-SPAN 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z Among other possible targets were nuclear facilities and airports, according to the newspaper. Louvre, Eiffel Tower targeted by Islamic terrorist, reports Le Parisien 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z The nuclear family as we understand it exists, just in a different form.” The kingdom of women: the Tibetan tribe where a man is never the boss 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z He also grappled with Iranian and North Korean nuclear programs. Nobel Peace Prize winner ElBaradei writing memoir 2010-03-16T17:50:00Z The failure of Sonia Gandhi, the chairman of the ruling United Progressive Alliance coalition and the president of the Congress party, to overcome his opposition to the nuclear deal is criticised heavily. WikiLeaks cables show warming relationship between India and US 2010-12-16T21:30:23Z That lie, and the questionable machinations of the moon-condo business, are the twin nuclear reactors that power the first season. ‘Hello Tomorrow!’ Review: It’s Only a Paper Moon 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z The world is still enduring the disastrous aftermath of Y2K: power outages, food shortages, self-ignited nuclear explosions. Review: Librettos and Ariosos Meet Video at Anthology Film Archives 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z In particular the commission focused on a variety of doomsday scenarios that might allow Iraq to obtain nuclear weapons and target America “in a very short time.” Why the United States Invaded Iraq 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z Richard Rhodes’s review attempted to consider why Americans reject nuclear power as a reasonable energy option to moderate climate change. Letters to the Editor 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z A person who acts like a lunatic is a candidate for the office that would hand him the nuclear button and codes. The Laws of Comedy 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Despite an intense debate about whether to restart the rest of Japan's nuclear reactors that were idled after the disaster, director Nao Kubota said he opted to tell a human story. Japanese film "Homeland" tiptoes into Fukushima nuclear debate 2014-03-05T02:22:56Z “Through our brand and naming, we are creating awareness of the wider impacts and implications of the United States’s nuclear research programs and the pivotal moment in world history that is often forgotten.” 'Bikini Atoll' beer from Dallas Brewery upsets Pacific Islanders, Marshall Islands government agencies 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z And, tell her, please: What was so terrific about the nuclear family? T Magazine: Suddenly Susan 2011-02-25T17:39:23Z This documentary, directed by Ivy Meeropol, focuses on the nuclear power plant of the title, which is about 45 miles from Midtown Manhattan. Review: Is the Indian Point Nuclear Plant Safe? Nobody Knows 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z “Great Performances: Faust” presents Gounod’s “Faust,” updated to the mid-20th century with Faust a nuclear scientist who strikes a deal with the devil in order to win the affections of a young woman. A sampling of fine arts on television for the week of Aug. 24 - 30 It’s rumored that France is about to resume nuclear testing around the islands, something that was done frequently from the 1960s to the mid-90s. ‘Pacifiction’ Review: Trouble in Paradise 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z It caused extreme discomfort in the nuclear establishment for its statement that a serious accident at a nuclear reactor would contaminate “an area the size of the state of Pennsylvania.” Letters to the Editor 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z Here Mr. Spurlock roams the world, talking to the show’s creators, fans and detractors, including nuclear energy executives and Brazilians who hate the way “The Simpsons” mocked their country. 2010-01-08T17:06:00Z Almost immediately after the Chernobyl nuclear plant went into meltdown, she went to Chernobyl. Nonfiction Wins a Nobel 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z A particularly significant achievement was the 2008 agreement on civilian nuclear cooperation, which cleared the path for India to purchase American nuclear fuel and technology. India and the United States: Two Countries That Can’t Live With Each Other or Without Each Other 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z Fan fiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant pop-culture junkies trapped in a sealed bunker. The Boy Who Lived Forever 2011-07-07T09:15:00Z At least half of the American public would support the use of nuclear weapons.” America has stopped worrying, loves the bomb 2013-03-19T18:50:00Z Could we have avoided the nuclear arms race and the cold war? Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States – box set review 2013-07-11T14:00:01Z Dench says the fictional Joan is convinced she is acting in the name of peace, by “evening up” the nuclear arms race. In ‘Red Joan’, Judi Dench gets spy role far from 007’s boss 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z “One study like a nuclear rainfall on us all,” Virginia says. 'Masters of Sex' Recap: For Virginia, Work = Love 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z In the most harrowing scene Ms. Walker pairs footage of New Year’s revelers in Times Square with voice-over recitations of the horrors that would follow a nuclear blast. Film: Two New Films About the Nuclear Threat 2010-07-18T01:33:00Z That autism explodes the conventional American nuclear family narrative makes it irresistible as a metaphor for the stresses of life under late-stage capitalism. The Trouble With Autism in Novels 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z Mr. Kerry’s accomplishments as secretary of state include his work on the Paris climate accord and the Iran nuclear agreement. John Kerry to Write Memoir for Simon & Schuster 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Luke proceeds to break through those nations’ most elaborate defenses to extract priceless intelligence, often about nuclear plans. Review | At 80, Frederick Forsyth has produced a classic thriller that’s also eerily relevant 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z Trump and Kim pledged at their Singapore meeting to work to end the North’s nuclear program in return for bringing the long-isolated state into the international community. 'I want world peace': Trump-Kim handshake inspires striking... 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z As a child she would duck under her desk during nuclear drills only to be sent out to play, she said, in a school yard coated with ash. Hollywood and the downwinders still grapple with nuclear fallout 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z But there are hints that war, possibly nuclear war, has preceded the action. Golding Flies classic marks 60 years 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z So whichever way you slice it, his Colbert appearance is great news for people who want something to watch while his former boss hastens the planet toward nuclear war. The Mooch makes the move into his natural habitat – late-night television 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z It’s a format that originated in South Korea, a place adjacent to a dictatorship bent on flaunting and fortifying their nuclear arsenal. Bring the joy: Watch "The World's Best" and "Busy Tonight" for a shot of comfort 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, ponder the lingering effects of nuclear waste or take in the beauty of Italy with Sophia Loren. What’s on TV Monday: Matthew McConaughey in ‘Big Fan’ and ‘Dallas Buyers Club’ 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z Abe also highlighted a "tougher" security environment surrounding Japan, a nod to China's aggressive maritime expansion and North Korea's nuclear and missile programs. Japanese throng shrines to pray for profitable 2017 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z A full two days after the meltdown began in Ukraine, with winds carrying radioactive fallout into Europe, alarms went off at a nuclear power station in faraway Sweden. An Enthralling and Terrifying History of the Nuclear Meltdown at Chernobyl 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z No wonder the whole submarine is now in the middle of a nuclear crisis. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Really?’ Pops Up Everywhere on Television 2012-10-01T22:17:08Z He read forty-six books on nuclear strategy; he conferred with experts, including the dread Herman Kahn; he studied military magazines to get an idea of how the cockpit of a B-52 might look. The Half-Century Anniversary of 'Dr. Strangelove' 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z “We are the only victims of the weaponized nuclear bomb,” he says. One worked on the A-bomb. The other was a victim. How their grandsons now create art together. 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z He said Pelosi “called me to inquire about the President’s ability to launch nuclear weapons. I sought to assure her that nuclear launch is governed by a very specific and deliberate process.” Milley defends call to Chinese at end of Trump presidency 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z The teachings of Jesus can hardly be used to support the notion of the modern nuclear family — or even the idea of the biological family. Jesus would back gay marriage 2012-09-16T12:00:00Z Here Oz is a virtual universe controlling everything from traffic signals to nuclear missile codes. Coming-of-Age Filmgoers: You?re Not in Kansas Anymore 2010-02-26T18:41:00Z By the time Paul is kidnapped, his nuclear family has imploded; Getty Jr. is lost in an opium cloud and Gail is living in Rome. Review: Christopher Plummer Dominates ‘All the Money in the World’ 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z They viewed the conflict through a Cold War prism, instead of a regional rivalry, and, ranting in the Oval Office, nudged each other toward a nuclear “final showdown” with the Soviet Union. How Do You Explain Henry Kissinger? 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z What’s more, the Cold War era fixed a simple equation in American public discourse: bad nation + nuclear weapon = our total destruction. America’s psychic numbing: Why we’re so obsessed with “apocalypse” 2014-02-26T13:30:00Z The programme, North Korea Undercover, is set to be broadcast amid rising tensions in the region caused by the secretive state testing a nuclear device and missile technology. Academics criticise BBC N Korea film 2013-04-15T16:44:08Z Mr. Gelb said any risk created by problems at nuclear reactors would be fully evaluated “before the advance team is scheduled to depart in the middle of May.” Possible Safety Risks Put Met Opera Tour to Japan ?in Jeopardy? 2011-03-30T22:22:24Z Meanwhile, amid scenes of everyday violence, the Cold War brings their world to the precipice of nuclear destruction, as it did our own. “Watchmen,” “The Boys,” and the False Hope That Superheroes Can Save Us 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z Skuli has thrived in our nuclear family, which is stricter and more constant than what he knew before. Modern Love: Just the Two of Us, When One Toddles 2011-08-25T22:25:10Z The future of Iran’s nuclear deal with world powers is shrouded in doubt after U.S. In Iran, France blends hard talks with soft power at Louvre exhibit 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z Last week I attended the ceremonial destruction of TV Centre, which was enthusiastically blown to pieces in a controlled nuclear explosion by a delighted David Cameron. Farewell, BBC TV Centre. You were Britain's very own Disneyland 2013-03-31T00:05:37Z Admitted groper Donald Trump’s election was, you might say, the ultimate exoneration — get caught on tape bragging about the abuse, and America will still hand you the nuclear codes. Who’s next? A moment of reckoning for men — and the behavior we can no longer ignore. 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z Cultural conservatives rally around preserving a nostalgic image of the nuclear family, those good old days when a man could walk through the door to a pot roast and a set of smiling faces. One marriage under god 2013-02-02T20:00:00Z Their sole remaining connection to our familiar world would be through the weak nuclear force, which is stronger than gravity but only active across tiny distances on the scale of atomic nuclei. Physics confronts its heart of darkness: Cracks showing in dominant explanation for dark matter 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z The last episode, “Forests,” winds up, of all places, in the ruins of Chernobyl, still depopulated after the 1986 nuclear disaster. Watching ‘Our Planet,’ Where the Predator Is Us 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z The script is based on the personal notes of a South Korean spy, Park Suk-young, known as “Black Venus”, who posed as a businessman to infiltrate the North and get information on its nuclear program. Korean spy film screens at Cannes while real-world plot thickens 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z “When you survive a genocide, it’s like you’ve been radiated by a nuclear bomb,” Panh said during an interview at his Phnom Penh office, which is inside a film preservation center that he runs. Cambodia Vies for 1st Oscar With Missing Picture 2014-02-27T08:24:29Z This is Marx, Mengele, communist manifesto, the nuclear family has always been under attack by communists, leftists. Melissa Harris-Perry doesn’t want to steal your children 2013-04-10T14:00:00Z That paranoia bleeds into modern Iran, where its theocracy now finds itself targeted in attacks over its accelerating nuclear program but also has the tendency to blame all its woes on conspirators abroad. Iran’s Iraj Pezeshkzad, who wrote ‘My Uncle Napoleon,’ dies 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z We’ve been able, for example, to negotiate the Iran deal, which will prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. Susan Rice looks back on her time with the Obama administration 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z You may not feel sorry for the energy barons, even if they risked part of their fortune to extract a form of energy cleaner than coal, safer than nuclear power and cheaper than oil. Matt Damon’s Promised Land: What the Frack!? 2012-12-21T10:45:15Z The same people he planned to blow up with his big nuclear bomb? 2012: the year of the dumb blockbuster 2012-12-29T00:07:33Z By the end of the fourth season, an impending nuclear apocalypse was threatening to ravage the planet yet again, separating the inhabitants who did the unthinkable to make it their home. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Genius: Picasso’ and ‘The Ice Cream Show’ 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z The Russian-born singer who split from Mel Gibson earlier this month says she will play a charity concert in Moscow to aid victims of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Mel Gibson's former partner to help Chernobyl kids 2010-04-19T13:53:00Z Duck-and-cover drills were a memory, but the threat of nuclear attack was still very real. A movie revisits the night a nuclear warhead nearly destroyed Arkansas 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z He pursues thorny moral questions, including this one about nuclear retaliation: “Would it be justice, vengeance or pure genocide to strike back” once our country had been comprehensively bombed? Books of The Times: Thinking the Unthinkable Again in a New Nuclear Age 2011-03-01T16:45:09Z "Maybe not to the extent they're going to end up in camps like Greenham Common, but I think they're a very enlightened generation who are calling for a debate on the whole nuclear issue." Nuclear threat 2011-06-23T07:43:08Z “When you’re living in a world which may end in nuclear fire at any point, a bit of casual onscreen dismemberment seems an appealing bit of light relief.” Horrorwood! Will the new golden age of scary movies save cinema? 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z Whether it leaves you debating scientific morality or our continuing dependence on the nuclear threat is something I doubt. The Physicists – review 2012-06-08T11:37:54Z Photographer Emmet Gowin fought for nearly eight years to obtain permission from the Energy Department to enter the Yucca Flat in Nevada, the largest nuclear test site on American soil. Review | Should museums mount exhibitions with a moral agenda? Absolutely. If they do it well. 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z The final set piece involves a nuclear submarine, a plane and an infrared missile. Tracing the evolution of "The Fast and the Furious" franchise, movie by movie 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z I’m well into a book in typescript about Iran and nuclear weapons, “Mullahs Without Mercy” by Geoffrey Robertson, a well-known human rights lawyer here in England. Ian McEwan: By the Book 2012-12-06T15:54:37Z Their combined audio experience is evident in their effortless back-and-forth, which blends behind-the-scenes anecdotes with fascinating historical insights into the 1986 nuclear disaster and its fallout. 6 TV Tie-In Podcasts to Enhance Your Next Binge 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z In a sense, having feared a nuclear attack, Washington watched as Moscow won a conventional battle instead. How Generations of Russians Have Tried to Influence American Elections 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z Without highly trained people in government, the nation could stumble into a trade war, or perhaps a nuclear one. Experts agree: Trump has made Washington hostile to experts 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z So too is her mother, who vanishes into debilitating anxiety and an obsession with nuclear disarmament. ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: Lamenting Defectors, Soviet and Otherwise 2013-05-24T16:19:14Z The director’s interest in the film’s original screenplay, written by Matt Charman, was intensified by its relevance to his own childhood in Phoenix in the era of “duck and cover” nuclear paranoia. For Spielberg, ‘Bridge of Spies’ is culmination of a Cold War fascination 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Grass also called for "unhindered and permanent control of Israel's nuclear capability and Iran's atomic facilities through an international body." Nobel winner Grass: Israel a threat to world peace 2012-04-04T13:41:08Z It’s also entirely possible this is 100 percent displaced anxiety about our engagement with the nuclear power of North Korea or maybe even some personal baggage. The Most Vexing Unanswered Questions of 2017 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z Messenger of Peace, told a ceremony honoring the winners Tuesday evening that "creativity is essential" in order to create momentum for nuclear disarmament. Actor Michael Douglas says the winning posters in a global competition to commemorate the first UN General Assembly resolution 70 years ago calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons "instantly create a universal message of peace." 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z Definitely the photo he shared that named and identified the guy who reportedly carries the nuclear football. Mar-a-Lago: where Trump’s monstourage mingles with paying guests 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Much as France did before it, Sweden achieved this by expanding its electrical supply with nuclear power rather than fossil fuels. A Sensible Climate Change Solution, Borrowed From Sweden 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z Now, imagine you're running an elite branch of the police, responsible for the security of the country's nuclear material and installations. Is a catchy title really the best means of safeguarding nuclear security? 2010-12-19T00:06:14Z Initially intended as a radar installation, the bunker evolved into what Mr. Parrish describes in the video as “the would-be home of regional government in the event of nuclear attack.” Across Britain, Silent Relics of the Cold War 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z “Patriot” opens in 2012, when concern over Iran’s nuclear capability was mounting and steps were being taken to halt its progress. Pledging allegiance to Amazon’s enigmatic “Patriot” may be worth it, but it isn’t an easy mission 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z The rest of my nuclear family would rather keep the peace. Perspective | Ask Amy: Racist dad seems unlovable to long-suffering child 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z He continued: "But I also like to joke and say, 'Oh, we actually are one of those nuclear spaces. We're just for the morning gays.'" "For the morning gays": The importance of LGBTQ-owned cafes as sober, queer spaces 2021-07-25T04:00:00Z The central theme of “Never” is the never-ending possibility of nuclear catastrophe. Review | Ken Follett’s latest epic is a cautionary tale of global catastrophe 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Ishu Han blurred a widely known image of the destroyed Fukushima tower by covering it with a grid of one-yen coins in recognition of the country’s economic dependence on nuclear power. Review: Japanese Photographers Reflect on the Fukushima Catastrophe 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z But he declared himself a fan, even retweeting the video from his Twitter account, amid posts about French politics, the South Korean election and the nuclear threat posed by North Korea. The BBC Kids and Their Parents Are Back, in a Cartoon 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z The film’s director and screenwriter, Dennis Lee, was inspired by the discussion of “nuclear family” during the presidential campaigns of the early ’90s and sought to explore a modern definition of the term. ArtsBeat: Tribeca Video Interview: Dennis Lee 2011-04-25T03:05:58Z In “Retaliation,” the president and his Cobra coterie are bent on world domination, and they resort to nuclear blackmail to achieve it. ‘G.I. Joe: Retaliation’: Loaded with weapons, sequel misfires 2013-03-27T18:31:31Z Its realistic graphics, cinematic presentation, and thoughtful commentary on nuclear proliferation cemented my ambitions to work in video games. Your First Video Game Crush 2013-08-07T16:07:55Z There’s a gospel number from the Church of the Sick and Tired, a nuclear ditty that sounds like it might be called “First Strike Boogie,” and more that are memorable enough to hum hours later. We’re doomed, happily: Ron Litman’s protest act in ‘Armageddon’ at Fringe The message of this book, I think, is that the American nuclear enterprise was a reckless operation that often used secrecy to hide uncomfortable facts and evade accountability. Experiencing War Far From the Battlefield 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z We were living in Tokyo on March 11, 2011, when the earthquake and tsunami set off a triple meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant. Terrified to return to Tokyo 2013-01-24T01:00:00Z At the same time, the home was designed for nuclear family members to gather on their own. The Exquisite Details of a Fifth Avenue Apartment Renovation 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z Those familiar with the history of the United States’ nuclear program will recognize many names, locations and story twists: J. Robert Oppenheimer, Gen. Leslie Groves, Enrico Fermi, Leona Woods, Niels Bohr, Ernest Lawrence and others. A Forgotten Town at the Center of the Manhattan Project 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z The images, elegant, bleak and harrowing, place her in a desolate landscape devastated by the explosions at the Fukushima nuclear power plant after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Eiko, Without Koma, Creates in Philadelphia and Fukushima 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z Sad: You are having a somewhat nuclear reaction to this slight. Perspective | Ask Amy: Boyfriend has elaborate explanation for suspected cheating 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Shockingly, it even called him a co-conspirator in a leak about North Korea’s nuclear program. Perspective | What Obama gets right — and very wrong — about the media 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z The background to this second series is the Israeli bombing of Iranian nuclear plants, with action returning to the Middle East for scenes that underline Homeland's power as a classic spy drama. TV thriller Homeland goes right back to the edge 2012-10-01T23:30:04Z Curtis LeMay believed that the only sure nuclear defense was to launch a preëmptive first strike. Sunday Reading: On the Precipice 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z Coincidentally, that album was created at a time when Mr. Springsteen joined musicians in another movement — protesting nuclear energy. Pop & Rock Listings for April 22-28 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z My mother put her head down the ostrich hole of “oh, he has moods” when my father’s anger scorched our house into nuclear winter. I can’t forgive my mother 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z New technologies of destruction have appeared throughout history, from the trireme and gunpowder in past centuries to biological and nuclear weapons in more modern times. Cyberwarfare — the Latest Technology of Destruction 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z He is, as Sam Knight wrote, “an old-fashioned lefty” who believes that Britain should surrender its nuclear arms and withdraw from NATO. Are After-Work Drinks a Conspiracy Against Women? 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z “It’s a boy’s adventure wrapped in a detective story tucked inside a nuclear allegory surrounded by a dystopian fable.” ArtsBeat: Critics' Picks Video: 'Akira' 2011-03-28T21:56:05Z The things you laugh at were really the heart of the paradoxical practices that make a nuclear war possible. The Half-Century Anniversary of 'Dr. Strangelove' 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z He was our coolest Cold War child, sensitive and streetwise enough to convince the masses that dancing in the nuclear twilight might even be fun. Perspective | Can a pop song prepare us for the end of the world? 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z Unfortunately for me, as the child of hippies, The Big Talk wasn't about the birds and the bees, but what we would do in the case of total nuclear annihilation, instead. Caitlin Moran: my sex quest years 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z Literary and cultural critic Jacques Derrida, in a glib statement about catastrophe, said that a total annihilation of human species, especially by nuclear fallout, is “fabulously textual.” Understanding apocalyptic events through literature 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z The 1986 explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine released more than 50 tons of radioactive material into the atmosphere. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘BoJack Horseman’ and ‘Mysteries of the Abandoned’ 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z The book, "Command and Control," examines the efforts of the military, since the atomic era began during World War II, to prevent nuclear weapons from being stolen, sabotaged or detonated by accident. ArtsBeat: 'Fast Food Nation' Author Will Return With Book on Nuclear Weapons 2012-10-05T21:22:44Z Whether such an explosion would be hot enough or powerful enough to detonate the Titan’s nuclear warhead, or would not quite reach that standard — well, according to Schlosser, no one was quite sure about that. The night we almost lost Arkansas — a 1980 nuclear Armageddon that almost was 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z As anxieties over nuclear testing and the effects of radiation swept postwar America, Mr. Gordon embarked on a low-budget filmmaking odyssey that turned mutated monsters loose on the hapless world. Bert I. Gordon, Auteur of Mutant Monster Movies, Dies at 100 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z In an earlier work, “Confront and Conceal,” Sanger told the story of the electronic sabotage of Iran’s nuclear program by means of a computer worm known as Stuxnet. Cyberwarfare — the Latest Technology of Destruction 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Some believe the decision to publish Gone With the Wind was meant as a symbolic peace offering from North Korea to the United States — the two nations have sparred for years over Pyongyang’s nuclear program. Reading Gone with the Wind in Pyongyang 2012-10-25T17:00:12Z The first was realized in 2012 in the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster and portrayed a yellow-spotted beetle missing segments of its antennae. Textiles Are Part of the Fabric of Milan Design Week 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z "It's crazy. I'm starting to miss the old days when we were on the verge of nuclear war with North Korea." 'Our Country Be Damned.' Late-Night Hosts Keep Slamming President Trump Over Charlottesville 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z Iran, the world's No. 5 crude oil exporter, says its nuclear facilities are part of a peaceful energy program and it would retaliate for any attack on them. Iran to load own nuclear fuel rods in Tehran reactor 2012-02-15T12:59:02Z That plan went like this: The only people who should be allowed to govern countries with nuclear weapons are mothers, those who are still breast-feeding their babies. 2010-01-20T05:19:00Z Mr. Witt countered that the cold war, with its deadly nuclear stakes, temporarily suppressed concern with the laws of war. ‘Lincoln’s Code,’ by John Fabian Witt 2012-10-10T21:53:50Z L.B.J. successfully characterized him as someone who couldn’t be trusted with the nuclear codes. Rachel Maddow and Doris Kearns Goodwin on a Presidential Race for the History Books 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z Every night, before she falls asleep with a gun under her pillow, she records her memories of the meetings where she supported Burke’s plan to drop a nuclear bomb on Homs, Syria. ‘An Acceptable Loss’ Review: Conspiracy Drives a Nuclear Attack in a Rote Thriller 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z The Chicago dog has relish that looks like neon-green nuclear waste, and if that doesn’t stop someone from eating a hot dog, nothing will. It may cause cancer, but these bacon-lovers refuse to be cured 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way for them to get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. The Observer science quiz 2012: part 2 2012-12-22T17:00:02Z “My Nuclear Family” follows Mr. Brownfield from Annapolis and into the Navy, where, aboard a nuclear submarine, he sought to “boldly go where no man is at liberty to discuss.” Books of The Times: What?s a Submarine Officer Doing in the Desert? 2010-09-21T21:23:00Z Wallace also brought up the video released by the Russian government boasting of its nuclear capability, including a graphic animation of a missiles appearing to strike a location nearby Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. Chris Wallace takes on Vladimir Putin, and is not outfoxed 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z Murray's attorney, Ed Chernoff, called the suspension the "nuclear option," noting that Murray hadn't practiced medicine in California since Jackson's death. Judge deals Jackson doc 2 setbacks with rulings 2011-01-13T16:14:08Z Then there’s the musical she’s developing for the National Theater and another play for it about “a bad day in a nuclear power station.” Moira Buffini on ‘Dying for It’ at Atlantic Theater 2014-12-27T05:00:00Z It’s not all Instruments of Destruction — you get a sense of the impressive technical accomplishments the nuclear program required. Go for the weird: 4 oddball attractions in Las Vegas 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z As he composed it during the early 1960s, Bernstein was alarmed by what seemed a looming threat of nuclear war. Not Just ‘West Side Story’: Celebrating Bernstein’s Symphonies 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z It's possible, therefore, to see the couple as victims of toxic fallout from the ascendency of the nuclear family. Rabbit Hole burrows into our ideals 2011-02-07T13:39:43Z But as defense secretary under Bush’s father, Cheney helped usher in dramatic cuts in the bloated nuclear arsenal by finally breaking SAC’s grip. Nuclear Nightmares 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z It turned out to be a roomful of arguing Trumps, spouting verbatim the contradictory statements he has made on issues like abortion, the minimum wage and nuclear proliferation. The New Politics of Late Night 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z And there are renderings, lots of renderings — featuring solar panels, gardens, rammed earth, a monorail and even nuclear waste. Essential Arts & Culture: LACMA's new look, protests at MOCA, celebrating a California composer 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z For many years he worked as a draftsman of control panels for nuclear power plants, and after being laid off in the mid-1980s he opened an automotive shop in Yonkers, where he restores classic cars. Celebrating Forefather of Graffiti 2011-07-22T23:55:25Z This covert mission, a part of preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, was supposed to be a simple exchange. A spy like us: Amazon’s “Patriot” is the screw-up’s answer to TV’s super-agents 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z For Mr. Metzger, art became an instrument to strike back at authoritarianism, nuclear weapons, commercialism and modern media. Gustav Metzger, provocative artist who developed ‘auto-destructive’ art, dies at 90 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z “Weird Fantasy” is stalked by the specter of nuclear war, and it bursts with disembodied brains, perilous space exploration and alien rockets homing in on the White House. ArtsBeat: Old Nightmares Revisited in “Weird Fantasy” 2014-05-05T17:16:47Z When a desert outpost — what Abby calls “the largest nuclear waste facility in the Southern Hemisphere” — ceases its communications, Abby volunteers to investigate. Review: In ‘Atomica,’ Hunting for Clues in a Nuclear Waste Zone 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z The new year begins and, in defiance of even its allies in Beijing, North Korea and its dictator Kim Jong-un test a nuclear weapon. Cover Story: Kim Jong-un’s Big Announcement 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z Relations between Iran and France have grown fraught of late, rattled by the uncertain future of the Iran nuclear accord and French concerns over Tehran’s ballistic missile tests and military activities in the Middle East. In Iran, France blends hard talks with soft power at Louvre exhibit 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z “To a computer, the security systems of the world’s largest nuclear mainframes are just a game, so we need to be careful if we’re going to teach them to be master game-players.” Do you trust your computer? New film explores perils of technology 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z He was very concerned about the nuclear threat and said that genuine dialogue was the only way to survive.” Maurice S. Friedman, Biographer of Martin Buber, Dies at 90 2012-10-06T01:01:48Z It starts with the fictional bombing by Israel of Iranian nuclear sites and the geo-political tensions that ensue, with Patinkin's character out from behind his CIA headquarters desk and back in the field. Mandy Patinkin thrilled to be part of Emmy winner "Homeland" 2012-09-24T22:29:38Z Censorship meant it was not until the 1950s that the Japanese public learned the full reality of the nuclear attacks. When the cloud parted 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z She accused the Texas congressman of espousing a "dangerous" position on restraining Iran's nuclear program, noting Iran's stated threat to "wipe our ally Israel off the face of the map." Gingrich under fire in GOP debate 2011-12-16T04:04:00Z Sites memorializing fall-out shelters are more alarming than nostalgic, and the notion, once seriously touted, that nuclear war is survivable invariably collapses under the weight of its own sinister ridiculousness. America’s forgotten war 2012-11-23T15:00:00Z In 1962, in the midst of the Cold War, Soviet missiles were discovered in Cuba, making real the threat of nuclear war. 3 Books That Help Explain American-Cuban Relations 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z All parties agreed before the election on the need to keep nuclear weapons, set up a defence review, and improve the welfare of British troops and their families. Coalition agreement - the full deal at a glance 2010-05-20T14:13:00Z One such period was in the early 1930s, another in the mid-40s as war gave way to a troubled peace and nuclear angst. The Adjustment Bureau - review 2011-03-06T00:18:00Z It’s time to talk about the nuclear option. Perspective | How to file a credit card dispute for your canceled vacation — and win 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z In those days, I saw myself as one of the good guys, protecting America from “alien” invasions and the potential nuclear obliteration of the country at the hands of godless communists from the Soviet Union. We are the empire: Military interventions, “Star Wars” and how we’re the real aliens 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z East Germany was just a few hours away - nuclear invasion was possible. ArtsBeat: The Spy Who Married Me: Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys on 'The Americans' 2013-01-24T17:18:07Z But if we provided even a slight advantage to the nuclear option, the numbers flipped. America has stopped worrying, loves the bomb 2013-03-19T18:50:00Z Three square blocks of houses for perfect nuclear families. The secret weapon in Mom’s underground poker party sandwiches 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z With the end of the Cold War, concern over a world-ending global nuclear exchange essentially evaporated, even if the nuclear arsenals of that era were left ominously in place. America’s psychic numbing: Why we’re so obsessed with “apocalypse” 2014-02-26T13:30:00Z O.G., as NSA technicians called it, had done its job, perhaps delaying Iran’s nuclear program for a year or more while engineers struggled to figure out what diabolical gremlin was causing repeated failures and breakdowns. “Science fiction cyber-war is here”: Alex Gibney on “Zero Days” and Stuxnet, the secret weapon that got away 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z On numerous occasions Eisenhower toyed with the idea of dropping nuclear bombs to sway foreign conflicts. Under the surface of Eisenhower’s era 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z A former U.S. senator from Alaska who read the Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record and confronted Barack Obama about nuclear weapons during a later presidential run. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z But Rose arrives at their cottage in the wake of a catastrophe at a nuclear power plant caused by a tsunami, an echo of events from 2011 in Fukushima, Japan. Don’t Despair, Protest: Playwright Lucy Kirkwood Sees No Other Choice 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z The hibakusha care more about campaigning for the eradication of nuclear weapons globally than accusing America. When the cloud parted 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z So thought the late Jesuit priest and peace activist Richard McSorley, who once pegged nuclear weapons as the father of all conflict — as devices that damage even if we don’t detonate them. Nervous about nukes again? Here’s what you need to know about The Button. (There is no button.) 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z “A nuclear meltdown changes people,” Emily muses early in the novel, “and I don’t mean radiation sickness or ‘Twilight Zone’ kinds of mutations in babies.” Review: ‘Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands,’ by Chris Bohjalian It further manifests itself in "Human Mask," a recent short film that opens on a drone camera's soaring view of the devastated landscape of Fukushima, Japan, site of ongoing nuclear catastrophe. Warm spots in Pierre Huyghe's often chilly Conceptualism at LACMA 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z For with predictions of the past two nights I chemical, nuclear, biologically warfared on our turf. Books of The Times: Poetry by Kathleen Ossip, Tracy K. Smith and Others - Review 2011-08-29T22:59:51Z Most experts believe North Korea is preparing for a third nuclear test, in defiance of a raft of U.N. sanctions and pressure from Beijing to desist. U.S. eyes testy China talks, Chen backer expects Chinese decision 2012-04-30T12:08:03Z After news broke that Mr. Parker’s accuser had killed herself in 2012, the scandal went nuclear. A Casualty of ‘The Birth of a Nation’ Controversy Speaks Out 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z In its recommendations, the legislative panels urged that the fire department develop new codes and standards covering both fires and non-fire-related emergencies like a bomb threat; biological, chemical, or nuclear attack; or natural disaster. ArtsBeat: New Emergency Standards Are Recommended for Broadway 2011-01-12T19:14:54Z Ms. Kirkwood’s “Children,” which earned raves at the Royal Court Theater in London, centers on two retired nuclear scientists living in a small cottage after a nuclear disaster. Manhattan Theater Club Announces Two New Plays by Women 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z Encryption is basically what keeps nuclear bombs from being blown up by some enemy. In Apple vs. the FBI, the people won’t win: “It’s the world’s biggest corporation versus the world’s most powerful military” 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z There’s an element of the show that believes it is weaving dark satire, offering grim perspective on the fact that the world’s nuclear weaponry is really controlled by this clutch of dithering idiots. It’s not TV, it’s HB-bro: Welcome to the quasi-hellscape of HBO’s brooding, bumbling, baller summer 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z The slightly surprised-looking Mr. Liman paused and then answered that, in contrast to the real Ms. Plame, he is not “a nuclear proliferation expert.” Film: At Cannes, Films Echoing World Events 2010-05-20T22:16:00Z Last month, the nuclear regulator approved the restart of a nuclear plant in southwestern Japan. Fukushima film shows reality sinking in for 'nuclear refugees' 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z Caught in a nuclear accident, the title character grows to 60 feet and is shot by the police in Las Vegas. Bert I. Gordon, Auteur of Mutant Monster Movies, Dies at 100 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z That would be a fittingly paradoxical way to understand the paradox-prone nuclear age. Nuclear Nightmares 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z After her death in 1968, he moved to Dover, Ark., to live with his father, Robert, a nuclear engineer and nuclear plant manager. Loren Cameron, 63, Dies; His Camera Brought Transgender Men to Light 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z Before moving forward and shaping our nuclear future, we must first seek to understand its past, to shine light into all of its dark corners. A Forgotten Town at the Center of the Manhattan Project 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z He also said he helped convince Russia's nuclear energy agency RosAtom, which he initially approached to co-finance the film, to spend money on protecting wildlife around a uranium deposit it intends to mine in Tanzania. DiCaprio, former Kremlin aide competing for ivory documentary Oscar 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z The country rejected the arbitration tribunal, knowing that its growing surface naval power and nuclear submarine capability support a highly uneven contest. America’s Collision Course With China 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z The sweep of history that Mad illuminated, from the early nuclear age to the present, provided the magazine with a rich and vital narrative of America and the world. A World Without Mad Magazine 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z The broken specs at the end of Time Enough at Last, when a readaholic is about to finally settle down after a nuclear bomb? Your next box set: The Twilight Zone 2011-08-18T20:30:01Z You never learn the precise details but can easily imagine life in a flyover state after a nuclear war. Music Review: ‘Dog Days,’ New Opera, at Peak Performances in Montclair 2012-10-03T20:58:42Z Oliver then detailed a plan to air commercials that actually educate the president on important issues, such as explaining the nuclear triad, how to use appetizer forks and what his other daughter is called. John Oliver on Trump's relationship with the truth: 'a pathological liar' 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z And which Austen character would he want leading America in a nuclear showdown? Michael Chwe, Author, Sees Jane Austen as Game Theorist 2013-04-22T22:06:09Z The ship’s ion plasma particle engine sits on the back of a telescopic arm to keep the nuclear reactor that powers it as far away from the crew as possible. Below the Line: Designing ‘The Martian’ 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z I’m the only person in my original nuclear family who didn’t run for Congress. Cokie Roberts is a commentator these days, but she still prefers facts to opinions 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z That queer too, is not a monolith, there are different ways to be queer, different narratives that do not fit neatly into Western models of coming out and nesting in nuclear families that replicate straightness. Yes, it’s possible to be queer and Muslim 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z Stillson must be thwarted by Christopher Walken’s Johnny Smith before he becomes president and triggers a nuclear holocaust with a first strike against Russia. How Donald Trump has blown the White House drama out of the water 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z Most post-apocalyptic fiction takes place in a landscape poisoned by nuclear war or rendered savagely inhospitable by climate change. Review | Andrew Krivak’s ‘The Bear’ takes a gentler approach to post-apocalyptic fiction 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z I wonder whether she will grapple with this or anything else before she goes nuclear next season. ‘House of the Dragon’ Season 1 Finale Recap: The Angriest Dragon 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z And why wouldn’t they, when our pant-wearing messiah even has time to rescue cats from trees while repairing fault lines and saving the USA from nuclear apocalypse? Is the big-hearted Spielbergian sci-fi of Close Encounters dead? 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z Limited series “Chernobyl” about the 1986 Russian nuclear disaster hauled in 19. HBO sets Emmy nominations record and tops Netflix 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z The world’s first atomic bomb exploded that morning, launching the nuclear age, and foreshadowing the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki within the month. The Day the Sun Rose Twice: A Tour of Atomic New Mexico 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z The book was almost as closely guarded as the nuclear codes, and, as soon as the embargo was lifted, journalists tore into it for newsworthy bombshells of score-settling palace intrigue. Isabel Wilkerson on Michelle Obama’s ‘Becoming’ and the Great Migration 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z Inside is a manual for conducting nuclear war. Nervous about nukes again? Here’s what you need to know about The Button. (There is no button.) 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z Most new homes in the city today are still designed for nuclear families. Critic's Notebook: Jonathan Kirschenfeld Reimagines the S.R.O. in the Bronx 2011-11-16T12:00:00Z The bride, 26, is a nuclear surface warfare officer aboard the U.S.S. Catherine Philbin, Colin Nevins 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z “Then a media circus of nuclear proportions blew up,” said Muckle. The shelter that gives wine to alcoholics | Tina Rosenberg 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z There is a vast difference between being mayor of London, a glorified transport and police commissioner, and having your finger hovering over the nuclear button. Boris Johnson reminds Tories of what David Cameron has lost 2012-10-06T23:08:26Z Whether you're sleeping at a former monastery turned five-star hotel or dancing in a onetime nuclear bunker, you'll quickly realize that in Prague, the unconventional is conventional: after all, this is Bohemia. 2010-02-06T04:05:00Z And of course nuclear armageddon, so narrowly avoided during the cold war, may yet come back to bite us on the rear. The bright side of science fiction 2010-04-01T10:08:00Z The strategist Herman Kahn, in a notorious book, “On Thermonuclear War,” published in 1960, insisted that a nuclear war was winnable, and that life would go on despite millions dead and nuclear radiation everywhere. The Half-Century Anniversary of 'Dr. Strangelove' 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z My dad was a nuclear engineer so solving stuff appeals to me. Faith Prince brings her 'Faith-isms' to L.A. Opera's 'Wonderful Town' 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z Günter Grass was barred from Israel earlier this year for criticising its nuclear policy. Günter Grass poem praises nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu 2012-10-01T13:17:16Z But to judge from the public conversation, not to mention the popular cinematic imagination, the end of the cold war was synonymous with the end of the nuclear age. Film: Two New Films About the Nuclear Threat 2010-07-18T01:33:00Z “The problem is if the custody war becomes nuclear.” Tom Cruise Specializes in Career Repair 2012-07-02T21:24:33Z This isn’t to say that the traditional nuclear family is bad or that it’s completely dead—just that it’s not necessarily what’s best for children. Gay couples have happier kids 2012-09-04T01:00:00Z The flying disc reported to have come down in the New Mexico desert is investigated by officers from Roswell Air Force Base, home to the US nuclear bomber wing. Weird suburbia: How atomic bombs and UFOs created modern America 2014-03-16T18:00:00Z Oppenheimer recommends destroying the Uzumaki by setting off a secret nuclear explosion. Very, Very Bad Things, Very, Very Tiny Packages 2011-03-13T22:52:19Z What I was working on was essentially making sure the bad guys did not get the nuclear bomb. "Countdown to Zero": Valerie Plame Wilson's new anti-nuke crusade 2010-07-23T01:02:00Z In 1986 a former technician in the Dimona nuclear reactor in Israel revealed to The Sunday Times of London everything he knew about Israel’s clandestine nuclear weapons program. Books of The Times: Vague, Opaque and Ambiguous: Israel?s Hush-Hush Nuclear Policy 2010-10-13T23:25:00Z Gaddis thought Reagan was a visionary who ended the Cold War and the nuclear arms race; Kennan worried the president would blow us all to Kingdom Come. Cold War historian finishes epic on George Kennan 2012-04-19T17:08:13Z And what might happen if the small country refuses to store British nuclear weapons? Independence Question Dominates Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z His rapid rise through in a Wall Street firm stokes his ambitions for a political career back home: “In 25 years I’m going to be the dictator of an Islamic republic with nuclear capability.” The Reluctant Fundamentalist: How a Nice Islamic Guy Got Mixed Up in Terrorism 2013-04-26T03:30:28Z In 2012 Grass published a poem critical of Israel’s nuclear weapons policies. Gunter Grass' 'The Tin Drum' a piercing work of literature and film 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z We even get Nixon talking about dropping a nuclear bomb on Hanoi while chopping up a steak. Far from unimpeachable 2010-06-03T11:40:00Z The movies that established Ms. Streep as a formidable, even intimidating on-screen force were marked by heavy themes and deep, dark dramatic moods: Vietnam, divorce, the Holocaust, missing children, nuclear anxiety. Film: That Unmistakable Streepness 2010-02-20T04:19:00Z Somewhere in season six, the one where you set off your second nuclear explosion, we drifted apart, and I thought I was done. Dear "24": I loved you, but I'm glad it's over 2010-05-25T12:46:00Z Those who rejected the ideal of the nuclear family and American way of life were circumspect. The secret history of gay marriage 2013-09-08T14:30:00Z When he questions an order to launch a nuclear first strike at Pakistan, his submarine comes under attack. Television Review: Andre Braugher Commands a Renegade Vessel in ‘Last Resort’ 2012-09-26T22:06:40Z "Countdown to Zero" is a 90-minute documentary written and directed by Lucy Walker that explores the history of the atomic bomb and today's threat of nuclear proliferation. Jordan's Queen Noor goes Hollywood -- for a cause 2010-06-12T01:01:00Z Fuchs — through his spymaster Sonya — had been passing Moscow details about the nuclear weapon all along. The Housewife Who Was a Spy 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z Others referred to campaigns against automobile use, nuclear power and United States covert actions in Latin America. When Posters Were the Samizdat of the Lower East Side 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z Plame also appeared in the Cannes film "Countdown to Zero," director Lucy Walker's documentary about the continuing danger of nuclear arms. Watts stars as CIA operative Plame in Cannes film 2010-05-20T13:13:00Z It was he who jokingly took bets on whether the earth’s atmosphere would be set on fire at the first detonation of a nuclear device, the Trinity test, on July 16, 1945. "The Big Bang Theory" and real science, from Leonard's wedding vows to the "Time Machine" prop 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z He pulls his punches: never mind trying to hack the world’s nuclear arsenal, why doesn’t he hack the Avengers’ jet? Review: Avengers: Age of Ultron Introduces the Cloud-Based Villain 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z An audience of between eight and 16 players puts on orange jumpsuits and collaborates in teams to solve puzzles and answer riddles to prevent a nuclear disaster. Now Playing in Chicago: ‘Game’ Shows 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z Still, growing up in the microcosm of a nuclear family located in a 12th-storey apartment in Mumbai, I was surrounded by music. Amit Chaudhuri's musical circumnavigation 2010-10-07T21:30:00Z On Bush: "In his gift for surreal improvisation he resembles an unintentional Paul Merton, a linguistic dada-ist, armed with nuclear weapons and a worrying sense that God is on his side." The Wit and Wisdom of Boris Johnson, introduced and edited by Harry Mount – review 2013-05-22T13:00:01Z Fifty years ago, a nuclear family of two biological parents and children was the norm. Navigating the tricky waters of being a stepdad 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Alternatively, there is Five Points, in NoHo, where the scene will run a little closer to the tastes of your nuclear family, even as the food draws you all together. Hey, Mr. Critic: Pleasing Finicky Parents and Nostalgic Texans ? Hey, Mr. Critic 2011-10-06T22:27:50Z When I was very young and just beginning to get what feminism was about and why it was necessary, I had a boyfriend whose uncle was a nuclear physicist. The problem with “mansplaining” 2012-08-20T16:38:00Z He now controls the world’s most powerful nuclear arsenal. Birtherism and America’s history of white supremacy: What we can’t let ourselves forget about Donald Trump 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z Yet through all the craziness — and the nail-biting tension of a story about the imminent nuclear annihilation of a place that doesn’t exist — a few meaningful points emerge. ‘The Leftovers’ Season 3, Episode 7: Bombs Away 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z The accident’s cause is mundane — a technician dropped a wrench — and yet it led to an emergency in which experts thought a nuclear explosion was imminent. There are two Washingtons, and this week you can see both of them on screen 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z Drones resonated across the venue, interrupted by shards of noise and fragments of melody, this time to images of desert lanscapes where the US military have tested nuclear weapons. Unsound Adelaide: Tim Hecker and Daniel Lopatin; Robin Fox; Raime; Trinity 2013-03-15T04:57:00Z The Islamic Republic of Iran is the nation run by medieval Shi’ite clerics and a daffy, dangerous politician who denies the Holocaust and may soon have a nuclear weapon to aim at Israel. A Separation: How about an Oscar for This Fascinating Iranian Drama? 2011-12-30T17:42:11Z When there’s an explosion at one point, it’s a mushroom cloud – a reminder that Japan suffered a nuclear attack, from a film-maker from the country that attacked them? Wes Anderson's Isle of Dogs: loving homage to Japan or cultural appropriation? 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z Culinary talent was one of those skills I admired in others, like smalltalk, ballroom dancing, jujitsu and nuclear physics. Kitchen confidential 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z India started down its path to becoming a nuclear power after its defeat by China. Clash of the titans 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z When Britain’s chief nuclear scientist, John Cockcroft, insisted that Windscale add some radiation filters during its construction, other officials gave only grudging approval, calling the filters “Cockcroft’s folly.” ‘Atoms and Ashes,’ a Frightening Tour of Six Nuclear Accidents 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z I used to pine for a nuclear holocaust when I was at Hebrew school. 'America's top satirist' 2010-09-04T23:02:00Z One really satisfying one that we've wanted to do for a while that we finally get to do is George Miller, Mad Max, post apocalyptic, diesel-fueled dystopia, nuclear wasteland kind of genre. Dan Harmon on the Future of Rick and Morty and That Community Movie 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z The next year, instead of reunions on the island, they got the threat of a nuclear holocaust. Change in U.S. policy toward Cuba dismantles an artifact of the Cold War 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Calm down already; it's not nuclear fusion, it's cake. A 3-ingredient cheesecake, no measuring needed 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z The nuclear weapons of fragile Pakistan and inscrutable North Korea preoccupy large sectors of our intelligence community. ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: The State of the Nuclear World 2013-01-11T20:44:21Z It’s called “The Brink” because the unlikely pair cross paths in the middle of a geopolitical crisis: A demented general seizes power in Pakistan and threatens nuclear attacks on Israel and India. Review: ‘The Brink’ Stars Tim Robbins as a Sex-Crazed Secretary of State 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z She maintained that her coverage of the Iran nuclear diplomacy “was certainly not done as a favor to or in support of any administration.” Obama official says he pushed a ‘narrative’ to media to sell the Iran nuclear deal 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z NBC's "The Event" on Monday night aired an episode with a story line not just dealing with nuclear disasters, but also playing liberally with facts and history. Bad timing for NBC's 'The Event' nuclear-themed episode 2011-03-15T04:44:00Z The largest cyclotron is 59 feet in diameter and run at TRIUMF, Canada’s national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics. U-Md. professor hooks students on this particle accelerator — by building one 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z Nobody does omniscience like the broadcast network news, where anything short of nuclear war can be hammered into a calm recap. Perspective | TV viewers want the world — and the George Floyd story — to make sense. Good luck with that. 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z About 15 biographies Wade has written have been deleted, including one on Clarice Phelps, a nuclear chemist who is recognized as the first Black woman to be involved with the discovery of a chemical element. She’s made 1,750 Wikipedia bios for female scientists who haven’t gotten their due 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z From the fictional TV drama Threads to the real-life events at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, the terror of a nuclear disaster permeated life in the 1980s. Nuclear threat 2011-06-23T07:43:08Z He’s got an urgent, high voice that he deploys with nuclear force and focus on songs about the numbing effects of drugs and sex. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Kiss Land’ is the Weeknd’s New Album 2013-09-08T21:45:10Z In return, the church exhorts the young to fight in Chechnya, consecrates new nuclear missiles as the nation’s “guardian angels,” and praises Putin’s return to the presidency as “God’s miracle.” Pussy Riot denied bail 2012-07-10T21:20:00Z It wasn’t until B-Real and Chuck D unveiled the refurbished lyrics of Rage Against the Machine’s signature cut, “Killing in the Name,” that the whole thing went nuclear. Perspective | Can protest rock still make noise in Trump’s America? 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z Sir Adrian warns that Putin will try to dominate Europe not with nuclear weapons but with Russia’s vast resources of natural gas and a complex series of pipelines capable of supplying most of the continent. Review | At 80, Frederick Forsyth has produced a classic thriller that’s also eerily relevant 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z Spent nuclear fuel will remain poisonously radioactive for at least 100,000 years, while human civilization, even if you stretch the definition to its outermost limit, goes back perhaps 10,000 to 12,000 years. "Into Eternity": The quest to make us forget nuclear waste 2011-02-04T19:45:00Z “Is there a legitimate argument to be made about the origins of our nuclear diplomacy or the decision to build the H-bomb?” he said. Oliver Stone Rewrites History — Again 2012-11-25T03:37:22Z Meanwhile, there’s little attention paid to the world’s largest nuclear arsenal, right here in the U.S. America’s psychic numbing: Why we’re so obsessed with “apocalypse” 2014-02-26T13:30:00Z “The Bomb” is a sequel of sorts to “The Wizards of Armageddon,” Kaplan’s 1983 book about the Cold War-era thinkers who established a template for how generations of American officials would approach nuclear weapons. Nuclear Nightmares 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z Now on disc from Kino Lorber, it anxiously ponders both the threat of nuclear war and the survival of the nuclear family. J.F.K. at Dawn’s Early Light of Reality TV 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z She's ambivalent about nuclear weapons; he believes in their "philosophical value". Next week's radio: from Recycled Radio to 5 Live's Big Day Out 2013-06-01T05:00:00Z But the giant monster’s existence as a personification and criticism of America’s nuclear strategy remains lost on many U.S. moviegoers and creators. Godzilla Returns to Japan 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z In the virulent debate between Jacksonian populists and whoever they've got in their gunsights/surveyor's symbols this week, "culture" largely refers to values – belief in God, patriotism, the nuclear family and so forth. Is the age of the critic over? 2011-01-30T00:07:09Z But it is one short step from “we’re all connected” to Tom Lehrer’s grimly jolly fantasy of nuclear annihilation, “We Will All Go Together When We Go.” 2011 Films: ?Melancholia,? ?Tree of Life,? ?Moneyball? 2011-12-17T02:03:03Z According to her website, she grew up on the Soviet base “surrounded by reindeer and nuclear submarines.” Woman shot on film set remembered as gifted cinematographer 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z The usefulness of, say, books about making nuclear weapons eventually fades: when the scientists who built these weapons die, their subtle techniques die with them. A physicist's view on The Physicists 2012-06-17T18:30:01Z The estimated deaths from those two bombings–the only time in history nuclear weapons were used in war–are around 250,000 people, almost all civilians. “All Lives Matter” has always been a lie: The brutality of Hiroshima and Nagasaki echoes in Ferguson and Iraq today 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z This was once the home for the workers at the Chernobyl nuclear reactor until the accident left the area lifeless. 'Chernobyl Diaries': A huge meltdown 2012-05-25T22:54:04Z ROBINS-GRACE Yeah, the show definitely looks sideways at the conventional nuclear heteronormative family structure and identifies ways in which that can be a really violent space for people trying to raise children. In ‘The Baby,’ Killing With Cuteness 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z By then, Fukushima had been dubbed the biggest nuclear threat since Chernobyl. Back to Fukushima: “It was all very apocalyptic” 2013-05-28T17:18:00Z A giggling Fanning told reporters her blonde hair was dyed red, befitting the name of her nuclear bomb-protesting and poet title character, for the film that explores adolescence, family discord and political and moral contradictions. Elle Fanning becomes British '60s teen in new Sally Potter film 2012-10-09T15:17:30Z A generation later, with Germany reunified and prosperous, Eastern Europe mostly stable and the threat of nuclear war gone, the magnitude of that accomplishment can be seen more clearly. 'Destiny and Power' sheds light on George H.W. Bush and the country we've become 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z Floyd, for his part, is said to be “nuclear” about it all. Has Justin Bieber dealt a knockout blow to his friendship with Floyd Mayweather? 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z Because Twitter would be really depressing after a nuclear war. Charlie Brooker answers your questions: 'I get angry to amuse myself' 2013-02-06T19:01:10Z Images of a grinning Putin soundtracked by nuclear activity and The Sugababes' Push The Button are the only real cliche, but his much-repeated theory of a "managed world" starts to become dulled by familiarity. Massive Attack v Adam Curtis – review 2013-07-05T00:48:25Z Or is the earth doomed to endure them for millennia, like slowly decomposing nuclear waste? Ask the indie professor: Will Kings of Leon's Sex On Fire ever go away? 2010-08-10T10:17:00Z Coma-chi’s hard-hitting song “Say ‘NO”’ has been particularly direct in accusing the Japanese news media of complicity in underplaying the risks of nuclear power. Music: Japan's New Wave of Protest Songs 2011-06-30T11:22:09Z Although Russia is still formally a secular nation, state media often show Russian Orthodox priests blessing new nuclear submarines and space rocket launches. Thousands throng to bow to St Nicholas relics in Moscow 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z Trump lampooned the Iran nuclear agreement as the “worst deal ever”, hobbling it and constantly threatening to destroy it. Ben Rhodes: ‘Obama has a serenity that I don't. I get more exercised’ 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z The touchiness of the nuclear issue tends to cause backers to shun anything too critical. Japanese film "Homeland" tiptoes into Fukushima nuclear debate 2014-03-05T02:22:56Z His real break came as a stuntman in the Hollywood movie “On the Beach,” about survivors of a nuclear war, which was filmed in Melbourne, his hometown, in 1959. Bill Hunter, Actor Who Typified Australia, Dies at 71 2011-05-23T01:10:15Z There was a real fear of the effects of nuclear experiments that coincided with the Kaiju monster movies. Q&A: Takashi Murakami talks monsters, movies and Fukushima 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z A postapocalyptic tale of nuclear war and its very human cost. James Rollins: By the Book 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z Today, we think it was probably a balloon from Project Mogul, an American attempt to spy on Soviet nuclear weapons development during the Cold War. 17 facts about conspiracy theories 2021-07-24T04:00:00Z There he remains for most of the movie, trying not to spill secret nuclear codes. Aaron Eckhart: 'You're giving me a heart attack' 2013-04-11T17:34:07Z It was rooted in the suburbs; it was a nuclear family; and it was white. To fight the status quo, the activists of 1968 harnessed the power of fashion 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z The book opens with her piece from 1998, “The End of Imagination,” but India’s nuclear tests were not Roy’s first infuriation. The Prescient Anger of Arundhati Roy 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z Subsequent "Planet of the Apes" films would deal even more explicitly with questions of racial conflict, social alienation, the Vietnam War, nuclear Armageddon, political fanaticism and how liberals and conservatives struggle with the "race question." Roseanne and America’s white victim complex: Why canceling her show isn’t enough 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z “No one in Hemingway’s postwar novels ever worried about the effects of prolonged exposure to the threat of nuclear war.” Books of The Times: J. G. Ballard’s Memoir, ‘Miracles of Life’ 2013-02-05T21:10:03Z If a nuclear bomb detonates, I will begin digging — “FAST!” — as I’ve been instructed. Book Review: ‘SAS Survival Handbook, Third Edition,’ by John ‘Lofty’ Wiseman 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z The stories of the grotesque failure of the Bush administration to seize a historic opportunity to better relations after the 9/11 attacks and of Iran's nuclear programme are deftly told. Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic by Michael Axworthy – review 2013-03-25T10:00:01Z They discussed morality and the Iran nuclear deal. Date Lab: They were so instantly comfortable that our photographer asked if they had met before 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z Has there been a terrorist attack, or a nuclear accident? Review: In ‘Await Further Instructions,’ a Family Home Becomes a Battleground 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Surely some of the atoms in our bodies were created by us sometime in the last 100 years ago in one of the many nuclear expolsions or nuclear reactors? Brian Cox digested: A summary of Thursday's live Q&A session 2011-03-25T17:58:00Z On his HBO show Last Week Tonight, the British comic called the president a “mentally unstable man with nuclear weapons” before playing footage of him with toilet paper stuck to his shoe. John Oliver on Trump: 'A mentally unstable man with nuclear weapons' 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Drawing from real-life accounts of the era, Cleverly develops a surprising subplot concerning the university’s renowned Cavendish Laboratory, which may be harboring nuclear physicists a bit too sympathetic to Stalin. ‘Diana’s Altar’ by Barbara Cleverly beckons fans of P.D. James 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z "Yellow Face" shifts abruptly into a more rhetorical key, when it ties the false accusations of colluding with China lodged against Hwang's father, and nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee, to racism. David Henry Hwang's 'Yellow Face' a provocative sendup 2011-08-09T16:35:06Z Chris updates us on progress in the field of nuclear fusion, and reveals some fascinating details about his time at Cern. The Guardian's Science Weekly podcast: The man behind the Large Hadron Collider 2010-06-13T23:12:00Z They are a beautiful example of epigenetics which is not nuclear – a protein will change another protein, and I'm fascinated by how they work. Edith Heard: 'We can't undo what our parents have given us in terms of our genes' 2013-06-22T23:05:02Z Stigma breeds fear, and now young girls are more fearful of being fat than of getting cancer, nuclear war or losing their parents. Fat girls do yoga too 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z The west was also extremely grateful to him for giving up his ballistic missiles when the collapse of the Soviet Union left him the master of the world's fourth-largest nuclear arsenal. Astana, Kazakhstan: the space station in the steppes 2010-08-08T00:59:00Z He had responsibility for three nuclear power stations and began his new post, with "impeccable timing", just after the partial meltdown of the reactor at Three Mile Island in the US. Obituary: Sir Terry Pratchett 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z The spectacular eighth episode featured a slowly unfolding sound and light show, with primal evils emerging into the world from the inferno of the first nuclear explosion. Inhaling Slowly for ‘Twin Peaks,’ Spewing Fire for ‘Game of Thrones’ 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z Launching nuclear missiles was a “political decision,” something that people on top of the ground decided, not him. In Ukraine, a radioactive nuclear ghost town near Chernobyl is a hot destination 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z Like the original series, which included dire warnings about nuclear holocaust and environmental pollution, the new "Cosmos" has repeatedly sounded the alarm about climate change and presented evolution as simple fact. 'Cosmos' co-creator Ann Druyan looks back in wonder on her odyssey 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z Iran, the world's No. 5 oil exporter and also rich in natural gas, says it is enriching uranium and developing other nuclear technologies to meet rising energy needs. EU bans Iranian oil, Tehran responds with threats 2012-01-23T12:51:00Z And rather than cast judgment, why not add it to the growing list of alternatives to the “house, two kids and a dog” nuclear family. I'm 40 and returning to life in a share house – deal with it! 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z With the adult male population reduced by slavery, the nuclear family, the core unit of Kongo social organization, was shattered. Review: ‘Kongo: Power and Majesty’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z In “The Interview,” Rogen deals with power even at its most extreme—international politics, nuclear weapons, the global media—yet there’s something inescapably small, even embarrassed, about the movie’s approach to it. How “The Interview” Handled the Assassination of Kim Jong-Un 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z The miners' strike was on the news and she remembers being petrified by the notion of nuclear war. Maxine Peake: 'People go to therapy. I've got a hoover' – interview 2013-03-24T00:02:01Z It’s a chilling portrait of a nuclear family at its most toxic. ‘God of the Piano’ Review: How Far Will Mother Go? 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z Conversely, I disliked Crosby and Kelly because they emitted an air of sanctity, and a nuclear, Paul McCartney-like earnestness. Irish America and the siege of Hollywood 2010-07-11T21:29:00Z Complex elements are forged inside the cores of stars by the nuclear fusion of more basic elements such as hydrogen and helium atoms. Paging Neil deGrasse Tyson: Fossil galaxy may be relic of baby universe 2014-04-09T12:30:00Z Here, the catastrophe has almost certainly been nuclear war, several decades earlier. Jane Rogers's top 10 cosy catastrophes 2012-07-05T08:22:05Z We face an unstable situation in Syria, we’re endangered by Isis and the possibility of a nuclear North Korea. By denying trans people's the right to serve, Trump is failing as a military leader 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z Our president has taunted a foreign dictator who is developing a nuclear arsenal. Why "Bird Box" is smashing Netflix records: We're so close to apocalypse ourselves 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z Danny as Carter comes in a little later to inspect the core — after all, he’s a nuclear engineer — wearing yellow boots as a precaution. Al Franken: My 10 favorite ‘Saturday Night Live’ political sketches 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z “You don’t like their behavior today, what do you think it will be when they have nuclear weapons that can be delivered to American cities?” John Bolton has a book deal, publishing officials tell AP 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z The former airfield was famous in the 1980s for the women's peace camp that sprang up around it in protest at the stationing of nuclear weapons on the site. Star Wars set snapshot on Twitter sparks excitement among fans 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z A crooned electronic track, Vietnam, compares his ex-lover's silence to both a nuclear bomb and Agent Orange without running the risk of over-dramatising. John Grant – review 2013-05-18T15:00:03Z I thought the resistance to using nuclear weapons would be much stronger. America has stopped worrying, loves the bomb 2013-03-19T18:50:00Z Reagan also presided over a nuclear arms buildup. New Mister Rogers film downplays his radical edge: “His work was deeply political” 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z A hundred of the government’s tests were “atmospheric,” nuclear explosions in the open air at altitudes of around a thousand feet. Emmet Gowin’s Intimate Photography of Nuclear Destruction 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z The nuclear engineer and his wife brought home their newborn son shortly before the pandemic started, and working from home has been challenging. Why this Virginia man spent days making an Alzheimer’s ‘busy box’ for a stranger 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z Covered in plaster and dust, he was a construction worker though he trained as a military nuclear engineer specializing in weaponry, a field where thankfully there isn’t enough work. Mariane Pearl: Revisiting the Cuba of My Youth 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z The movie showed no nuclear winter, that would have required a nuclear war in the first place. ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2, Episode 8: The Zombie Code 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z He speeds off to look into a breach at a nuclear silo called the “Hawk Sanctuary” that he imagines will soon be a tourist trap. Review | John le Carré left behind a novel, ‘Silverview.’ Does it live up to the spy master’s reputation? 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z President Reagan pronounced himself “greatly depressed” after watching it and credited it with changing his attitudes towards nuclear war. The 10 most politically controversial TV shows of all time 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z In the 1950s, a decade shadowed by fears of nuclear extinction, many quoted T. S. Eliot’s poem “The Hollow Men,” written in 1925. ArtsBeat: The Poetry of Catastrophe 2011-03-18T19:09:01Z He traveled to neutral Switzerland, posing as a student, to hear a lecture by Heisenberg, the German nuclear scientist. The strange life and death of Moe Berg, the baseball catcher who became a spy 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z Threads, the 1984 TV drama about a nuclear attack on the UK – I still find it extremely difficult to watch, especially in the current political climate. From John Carpenter to Slipknot's Clown: what scares the masters of horror? 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z A member of Trump’s staff carried an armful of what appeared to be posters onto Marine One, tailed by a military aide with the nuclear football. ‘THIS IS AN ASSAULT’: History collides with Trump 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Terrorists have stolen a nuclear device and the hero takes the necessary measures, impeded by a timorous bureaucracy. The Trump era is posing some major challenges for thriller novelists 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z He earned a master’s degree in nuclear engineering at Tuskegee University before joining the Air Force and eventually NASA. Black scientists have often been overlooked despite their inventions and discoveries 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z In debate after debate, moderators wedge sexism somewhere between Medicare-for-all and the Iran nuclear deal, then set their timers. Perspective | Warren vs. Sanders totally misses the point about sexism in politics 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z During the sketch, she consults with correspondents who explain current events including the Germanwings crash, US-Iran nuclear weapons negotiations and Indiana’s “religious freedom” law with a variety of increasingly unhelpful “reenactments.” “Loose collection of daytime nonsense”: SNL mocks CNN’s bizarre “reenactments” 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z Although he refuses to utter the president’s name — “Who? Oh, Agent Orange” — Lee admits that while making “BlacKkKlansman,” “everything was done knowing that this guy had the nuclear code.” Spike Lee’s movie about a black cop infiltrating the KKK is a subtweet of Donald Trump 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z There are dramas about haunted luxury apartments, islands armed with nuclear arsenals and the making of Vegas. Don Draper?s reckoning nears 2012-05-21T12:45:00Z His goal is to be elected president — a position from which, he announces this season, he would not hesitate to launch a nuclear first strike should he judge it necessary. As ‘Billions’ Ends, Its Creators Discuss the Changing Face of the Ultrarich 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z Yes, Mr Robot is brave, but it doesn’t contain an episode where we spend several minutes witnessing the interior of a nuclear blast set to a song called Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima. 'No one will ever try this again': the most daring hours of TV ever 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z Surely their next step would have been to warn the world about the dangers of putting nuclear weapons in the hands of artificial intelligence, thereby averting Judgment Day for ever? Search and destroy: can James Cameron revive the Terminator by killing its past? 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z A vast range of products made within the Soviet bloc are to be displayed, as well as documentation of the period when many Americans lived in dread of potential nuclear attacks. A Surge of Interest in East-Bloc Mementos 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z There are hints that a nuclear war has wreaked devastation, "a New War whose very existence is subject to question, no one knowing whether it's already raging or yet to start". Thrillers - reviews 2012-10-11T07:00:02Z The Armenian sang about an apricot, the Albanian praised Jesus Christ, and the Ukrainian railed against nuclear Holocaust. Eurovision Crowns a German Pop Idol 2010-05-30T08:20:00Z Topics: TomDispatch.com, nuclear extinction, environmental extinction, Apocalypse, Politics, , , , This piece originally appeared on TomDispatch. America’s psychic numbing: Why we’re so obsessed with “apocalypse” 2014-02-26T13:30:00Z “Why did I wait until now at this advanced age and with the last bit of ink to say: The nuclear power Israel is endangering a world peace that is already fragile?” ArtsBeat: Gunter Grass Poem About Israel Provokes Intense Criticism 2012-04-04T17:25:16Z My prepared questions covered Pakistan and India’s nuclear testing, and President Clinton’s visit to Beijing, both of which had happened earlier that summer. The Buddist I am not: Reflecting on my conversation with the Dalai Lama about the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z The Cold War-era satire of the U.S. and Soviet Union's bumble to nuclear war managed notes both serious and the absurd, they realized. HBO's 'The Brink,' with Jack Black, is satiric about the geopolitical 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z All this face time with blinking screens is in the service of the story’s turns, many of which involve following the digital trail left by the hacker who infiltrated the nuclear plant. ‘Blackhat,’ a Cyberthriller Starring Chris Hemsworth 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z But it’s when Manaugh and Twilley describe their visit to a nuclear waste facility that quarantine takes on dimensions that feel simultaneously urgent and fantastical. The Extraordinary History (and Likely Busy Future) of Quarantine 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z It includes a response to the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, expressed through butoh dance and large-scale puppets by the Phantom Limb company, called “Falling Out.” Perspective | Can a festival make the Kennedy Center a destination for political art? 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z But the trend is clear: Straight, nuclear families are no longer the default or the expectation when it comes to having children. Gay couples have happier kids 2012-09-04T01:00:00Z The effect is a bit like living at the bottom of a nuclear power plant’s cooling tower. Opening the Door: 3 Picture Books Look at Life on the Other Side 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z This includes, it seems, setting a honey trap for an Iranian government official and then using him to convince Saul that Iran is engaged in a nuclear arms deal with North Korea. ‘Homeland,’ Season 6, Episode 3: Quinn and Carrie, Please Work Out Your Issues 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z Politics prizes picture-perfect nuclear families; the Gores, in turn, felt free to pursue independent lives as their priorities diverged. The End of the Line 2012-08-25T11:00:00Z The proposal offers the possibility of better ties after a year of nuclear weapons tests and threats of war on the Korean Peninsula. South Korea invites North Korea to cooperate on Olympics 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z He outlined Global Zero's plan to encourage worldwide negotiation frameworks, with big powers taking the lead in disarming for a "domino effect" among smaller nuclear powers. From bomb silo to big screen, an anti-nuclear quest 2011-06-17T06:56:07Z She’s an Illinois wife and mother, powerfully intelligent, who at first scratches her itch for politics by championing Barry Goldwater and writing occasionally about the communist threat and endorsing nuclear armament. Review | ‘Mrs. America’ tells the story of the women’s movement from the dark side of the Force 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z Ultimately you don't think about nuclear bombs or dictators threatening world peace. Iran state TV says Oscar win victory over Israel 2012-02-27T13:29:08Z Godzilla is no exception: in the 1954 version of the story, the weight borne by the monster’s scary shoulders was atomic–the fallout from Japan’s horrific experience of nuclear weapons. Godzilla, Into the Storm and More Summer Cli-Fi Thrillers 0002-11-30T00:00:00Z Pop’s nuclear songbook is surprisingly thick, but its tensile strength has always been tested by the weight of our fears — fears that can feel dumb and irrational until smart, rational people start feeling them, too. Perspective | Can a pop song prepare us for the end of the world? 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z The Chernobyl story is indeed as little about nuclear power as the Bhopal catastrophe is about the pesticide industry. Looking Again at the Chernobyl Disaster 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z In these two books about the April 1986 explosion of the No. 4 reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, “Midnight in Chernobyl” focuses on the first and second, “Manual for Survival” on the third. Looking Again at the Chernobyl Disaster 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z And, if we didn’t win it, what exactly was the point of those 45 nerve-racking years when every geopolitical tremor threatened to trigger our nuclear annihilation? America’s forgotten war 2012-11-23T15:00:00Z The picture of a young, female nuclear war protester in 1970s-style clothes lying down on the pavement in an act of passive resistance is exceptional for its historic interest. Art Review: Leon Levinstein?s Photographs of New Yorkers 2010-06-24T20:30:00Z The two nuclear superpowers may have fought proxy wars, but they always stepped back from the brink. Two Spies, Two Opposing Sides, One Fast Friendship 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z Its measures reinforce those imposed by the United States as the West tries to force Tehran to return to talks before it produces enough nuclear material for an atomic bomb. Iran to announce nuclear progress: Ahmadinejad 2012-02-11T11:45:00Z Some worry that such involvement would lead to escalation and nuclear conflict. Russia and Ukraine Have Long Been This Filmmaker’s Subject 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z By the narcotic, Teutonic drone-folk of Friedrichshain you start to believe the stories about Wolfe spending her formative years travelling abroad with a nomadic performance troupe playing cathedrals, basements and old nuclear plants. New band of the day ? No 1,091: Chelsea Wolfe 2011-08-24T16:58:18Z He usually retained the sinister qualities from Yang’s images — sometimes backdropped by a nuclear explosion or a horde of zombies. Biden embraces his ‘Dark Brandon’ alter ego in 2024 campaign 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z When I attended the University Of Chicago before the invention of nuclear fission, there were two identities: Male, and, for three students, female. BREAKING: “Cultural appropriation is not just appropriate — it is my birthright!”: The Greatest Living American Writer 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z A few years ago Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president, commissioned a “Nuclear Symphony” to trumpet national pride in the country’s nuclear ambitions. 2010-02-03T21:58:00Z “As the director of Los Alamos, I have to make sure that we have a safe, reliable and effective nuclear deterrent,” he said in an interview in Fuller Lodge. Bringing ‘Doctor Atomic’ to the Birthplace of the Bomb 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z After a devastating contagion and concomitant nuclear meltdowns, the American population has shrunk to maybe a million, maybe half that. Review: In ‘Mr. Burns,’ Apocalypse Now, With ‘The Simpsons’ and Songs 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z “There’s quiet fury at its center — a nuclear sun that radiates not out at the world, but back at the author herself,” Claire Dederer writes in her review. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z Today it exists as something of an artifact, a stunning work that nonetheless has lost the power to engage largely because the stories it contains have permeated our consciousness of nuclear war. The Reporter Who Told the World About the Bomb 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z ‘Chernobyl’, HBO’s critically acclaimed dramatisation of events surrounding the world’s worst nuclear accident, tops the roll-call of nominations announced on Thursday, with 14. 'Chernobyl' tops TV award list as BAFTA lines up live show 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z What did the tritium say to the nuclear reactor on their 12th anniversary? Style Invitational Week 1172: Pieces of ‘Pie’ 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Doctors aspired — sometimes — to do no harm as they faced the unprecedented and little-understood task of dealing with radiation in the form of fallout from the world’s first nuclear detonations. Experiencing War Far From the Battlefield 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z Now I worry less ‘Am I going to get incinerated in a nuclear fireball?’ and more ‘Is that going to happen to my children?’ Charlie Brooker: 'Happy? I have my moments' 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z "Taking a camera into the no-go zone and filming there really shows the claw marks of the nuclear accident," Maeda said. Japanese film "Homeland" tiptoes into Fukushima nuclear debate 2014-03-05T02:22:56Z But on last night’s show, Jon Stewart just couldn’t stand idly by any longer as Cheney slammed President Obama for his nuclear deal with Iran. Jon Stewart investigates the extreme hypocrisy of Dick Cheney 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z What about a series of girls' novels about kung fu, space exploration, forming a rock band, mountaineering, free running, sky diving, astronomy, international espionage or nuclear physics? Girls' fiction needs to learn some new routines 2010-10-06T10:43:00Z His difficulties with his editors were over the civilian chapters—and, above all, passages relating to the novel’s central figure, the Jewish nuclear physicist Viktor Shtrum. How the Soviet Literary Establishment Censored Vasily Grossman 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z Less than two months earlier, a group of United States scientists had worried that the world’s first nuclear explosion, the ultrasecret Trinity test in New Mexico, might ignite the atmosphere. The Reporter Who Told the World About the Bomb 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z There may be solutions to these problems, but waste disposal must be part of the balance when we consider the pros and cons of nuclear power. Letters to the Editor 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z When the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe travels to Amsterdam next week, he will not only be discussing nuclear security, the crisis in Ukraine and the world economy. The Japanese PM Shinzo Abe Will Visit Anne Frank’s House 2014-03-21T09:08:19Z Half an hour north of Santa Fe lies Los Alamos, the true birthplace of the nuclear age. The Day the Sun Rose Twice: A Tour of Atomic New Mexico 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z Israel, along with much of the international community, believes that Iran is trying to develop a nuclear weapon. Grass dismisses Israeli travel ban 2012-04-11T18:36:07Z “Turnpike No. 3,” a rectangular tray showing a toll plaza on the New Jersey Turnpike, is one of a series devoted to such heartwarming sights as the Indian Point nuclear plant and a fracking derrick. Browsing at Metro Curates and the Ceramics and Glass Fair 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z They died because they vowed to shatter the CIA into a thousand pieces, and because they told the generals who wanted to launch a nuclear war over Cuba that they were mad. The coverup continues: The Kennedys in Hollywood 2011-04-01T14:01:00Z Oliver says that despite years of using nuclear energy, the country still doesn’t have a permanent facility for its storage. John Oliver Targets Nuclear Waste on Last Week Tonight 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z The base in Colorado Springs, Colorado, used to monitor for signs of a nuclear attack. US military confirms pandemic won’t sideline Santa Claus 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z Powerful on its own, it goes nuclear when seasoned with a soy dressing and porcini powder. ‘Shroom,’ reviewed by T. Susan Chang 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z Tom Cruise returns as Agent Ethan Hunt, this time drawn into the complex, globe-trotting pursuit of a nuclear terrorist who frames Hunt and his team for a bombing at the Kremlin. Stream These 10 Titles Before They Leave Netflix in August 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z After a tsunami and the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the games carried the promise and symbol of national recovery. Anger in Tokyo over the Summer Olympics is the latest example of how unpopular hosting has become 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z Certainly, no one is smiling against the white nuclear backdrop in his portraits. Richard Avedon’s Wall-Size Ambitions 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z The earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis in Japan have inspired benefit concerts across New York City. Music Review: Allies in Improvisation and in a Cause 2011-03-28T23:31:42Z “No matter what they write now, there was such a thing as a Soviet person, with a Soviet character,” one man tells Svetlana Alexeivich in “Voices from Chernobyl,” her oral history of the nuclear disaster. The Cruel Irony of “The Americans” 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z After five days, 1,200 miles and God knows how many nuclear calories, my back was sore, my heart was homesick and my guts sizzled in misery. As Seen on TV: A Road Trip Tracks the Shows of the South 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z "I will carry the message of the million petitioners represented here today, and the many millions more around the world seeking to end the nuclear threat." UN peace messenger Douglas remembers Japan 2011-03-24T16:34:12Z "Armageddon" - An asteroid is on its way to destroy Earth and a team of offshore drillers is sent to plant a nuclear bomb that will knock it off course. Similar movies, same time: A look at how they did 2011-08-15T14:41:08Z Her latest record, due for release on Aug. 26 on the Rivertones label, features recordings from Marnay-sur-Seine, a French village next to a nuclear power plant. London, as You’ve Never Heard It Before 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z Their signature iconography - repeated throughout Haring's work - includes a flying saucer, crawling baby, dolphin, pyramid, television and nuclear reactor. NY exhibit focuses on early career of Keith Haring 2012-03-25T00:46:05Z She stayed to perform her concerts as planned, even though fears of radiation from a tsunami-stricken nuclear power plant in Fukushima caused many other performers and visitors to flee. 1 year later, Cyndi Lauper urges support for Japan 2012-03-12T11:31:22Z Like other postwar shows it enshrined a traditional nuclear family, with a full-time homemaker mom and dad with an outside job. | 'The Beaver': Leave It to the Beaver to Do All the Talking 2011-05-06T07:53:01Z We’ve suffered meteors, the Rapture, nuclear war and the zombie apocalypse. The world has a really bad hair day in ‘The Blondes’ 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z Tension with the West rose last month when Washington and the European Union imposed the toughest sanctions yet on Iran in a bid to force it to provide more information on its nuclear program. Iran says oil ban will not halt nuclear work 2012-02-04T13:45:12Z This week’s emergency preparations include setting up shelters, switching traffic patterns so that all major roads led away from shore and getting 16 nuclear reactors in the region ready for the storm. Carolina coast is preparing as Hurricane Florence nears 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z The anti-fascists are trafficking a series of mysterious newsreels that depict alternate histories within this alternate history — some record a past in which the Allies won the war, some a future nuclear apocalypse. An Alternative America Hits Home in ‘The Man in the High Castle’ 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z “Trinity,” a recent book by Louisa Hall, takes up J. Robert Oppenheimer, the troubled genius who invented the atomic bomb, in 1945, and then lobbied against nuclear proliferation until his death, in 1967. Susan Choi’s “Trust Exercise” and the Question of Appropriating Other People’s Lives as Fiction 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z Billy Murray spills a Pepsi on the control board of a nuclear reactor, shorting out the board and causing a meltdown in the reactor’s core. Al Franken: My 10 favorite ‘Saturday Night Live’ political sketches 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z Plame, in Cannes for a nuclear proliferation documentary in which she featured, told Reuters earlier in the festival that she was glad to have her story told on the big screen. New film explores outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame 2010-05-20T11:14:00Z Birmingham Central Library was a place where books were burned, not read; the National Theatre a nuclear power station; the British Library looked like a secret police academy. Prince Charles is not a dabbler – he's deeply committed. But he's naive 2013-05-02T14:30:02Z Of course, nuclear weaponry contributed to this change. Viewing World War I Through the Prism of the Personal 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z Biographers like Richard Reeves say there is no record showing that Mrs. Kennedy stormed out of the White House during her husband’s nuclear standoff with Khrushchev. Television Review: The Power Brokers: Fathers, Sons, Dynasties 2011-03-31T20:00:05Z We got nuclear fusion, and the Beatles have held a reunion tour, after John Lennon survived an assassination attempt. In ‘For All Mankind,’ the Future Is in the Past 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z To be included in the Nov. 1 birthday concert at Carnegie, it includes accounts of the Hindenburg explosion, the nuclear bomb testing on Bikini Atoll and the cloning of the sheep Dolly in the 1990s. Steve Reich at 80: Still Plugged In, Still Plugging Away 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z As a nuclear, middle-class white family in a New Orleans suburb, you wouldn't think that he would have experience any oppression himself. In solving his own son's murder, "The Pharmacist" also took on the opioid epidemic 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z That much human destruction could and can only be accomplished by a nuclear device. Countdown to Zero: Valerie Plame at the End of the World 2010-08-02T16:30:00Z That could cool down worries in international markets over possible military action, but reinforce the suspicions of Israeli leaders who claim Iran seeks only to buy time to keep up its production of nuclear fuel. Marvel Comics plans wedding for gay hero Northstar 2012-05-22T16:46:00Z In contrast A. Q. Khan, a scientist who stole nuclear secrets and then peddled them to rogue states, is hailed as a national hero. Books of The Times: Conflicts and Contradictions of Pakistan 2011-08-08T12:00:00Z For a host of commentators, conservatives and liberals alike, the series heralded nothing less than the demise of the nuclear family. Television: Reality-TV Originals, in Drama?s Lens 2011-04-17T04:00:04Z “My father’s commitment to freedom and the rule of law, to religious tolerance and racial justice, to nuclear disarmament and scientific innovation inspired a generation who transformed our nation,” she said. At the Kennedy Center Honors, plenty of politics make up for Trump’s playing hooky 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z Paul, his voice rising, said he "obviously" did not want Iran to become a nuclear power, but he said that to "declare war on 1.2 billion Muslims" was "dangerous talk." Gingrich, Romney set sights on Obama 2011-12-16T06:10:00Z The story of fallout shelters, it turns out, is partly a story about safety in the nuclear age, but it’s more about the placebo effect in times of panic. This nuclear fallout shelter was untouched for 55 years. It might come in handy now. 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z To start the renovation, the museum first created a fully climate-controlled and shock-free interior warehouse where once a nuclear bomb shelter was. Antwerp puts big, bold Rubens works into hiding 2013-04-05T10:26:09Z He is now in the process of mastering slow-roasted Persian lamb accompanied by a pomegranate salad, in hopes of “defusing the tension” over Iran’s nuclear reactors. Cultural Studies: Food Is the Latest Arena for Macho Contests 2012-09-15T00:37:02Z Musharraf insisted that Pakistan's nuclear weapons were safe from terrorists, though he admitted that what he called the "centre of gravity" of al-Qaida-inspired extremism lay in Pakistan's tribal areas. Pervez Musharraf uses Hay festival to hint at possible return to power 2010-05-30T22:55:00Z Liman ducked a question from an Iranian journalist about whether the international case against Iran's nuclear program is built on a sounder footing than the Bush White House's case against Iraq. Cannes: Naomi Watts on Valerie Plame 2010-05-20T17:30:00Z Kayo Takahashi Deschene’s costumes are a blend of ancient Greece and Japanese Kabuki; Neptune’s wrath is here a stylized version of the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. At the Opera, Humans Bear Witness to Atrocity, or Ignore It 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z And “Indian Point,” from Ivy Meeropol, examines the aging nuclear power plant 50 miles outside of New York City. Tribeca Film Festival Announces Competition Films 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z Govan remembered their commitment as he worked to protect “City” from plans to build a rail line to haul nuclear waste just past the project’s property line. Michael Govan: A museum director who goes beyond the gallery walls 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z On Tuesday night, Jon Stewart went on a spirited rant about the open letter to Iran signed by 47 Republican Senators — blatantly trying to undermine a nuclear agreement. “We’re f**king cuckoo! Cuckoo bananas!”: Jon Stewart rips the GOP Senators’ letter to Iran 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z Nearly 48 percent said they would even in the first scenario, in which nuclear weapons’ success was comparable to conventional weapons. America has stopped worrying, loves the bomb 2013-03-19T18:50:00Z In that film, decades after a devastating nuclear holocaust, a small band of women roams the landscape looking for food and kicks. Strange Lands Series Celebrates Soviet-Era Sci-Fi Films 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z Do the mysterious woes of this nuclear group flow from nature, nurture or neither? ‘Hereditary’ Review: Fine-Tuned Terror 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z But Ellsberg, the former Defense Department analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers, sounds an impassioned alarm, warning that the dangers of nuclear conflict remain. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z She then traveled to Ukraine, where she placed radiographic film around the Chernobyl exclusion zone, an area set aside after the nuclear power plant disaster in 1986 that remains largely abandoned. What to See Right Now in New York Art Galleries 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z A missile race, pre-emptive strike, fire storms and nuclear winter ... 'Isle of Khería': Global search for a better world creates close ties 2012-08-23T20:51:04Z The Late Show host Stephen Colbert responded to North Korea's escalating nuclear threats on Tuesday with an ominous message after President Donald Trump warned of unleashing "fire and fury." ‘We’re All Going to Die.’ Stephen Colbert Talks Trump’s Threats Against North Korea 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z This is how, in Louisa Hall’s brilliant third novel, a young member of the Women’s Army Corps working at Los Alamos remembers the test of the first nuclear weapon, code-named “Trinity,” on July 16, 1945. The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Imagined Through His Collisions With Others 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z But the personal equivalent of an earthquake followed by a nuclear catastrophe always catches us unawares. Who is Sylvia? 'Goat' manages to connect to a tricky beast 2011-04-05T13:48:40Z Although the toll in deaths and disability never reached the scale of measles, whooping cough or influenza, polio was listed in 1952 as Americans' greatest fear after nuclear attack. Paralysed with Fear: The Story of Polio by Gareth Williams – review 2013-07-17T15:02:02Z The 1979 Three Mile Island disaster—where “a plumbing problem, a stuck valve, and an ambiguous indicator light” led to a nuclear accident—serves as a prismatic example. ‘Meltdown’ Review: Flirting With Disaster 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z It’s during a climactic underwater sequence that the film weaves together these themes of militarism, desolation and nuclear dread. ?Godzilla? the Great: New Criterion Release Celebrates the Greatest Monster Movie 2012-01-25T16:20:11Z The film uses the new tremors to reunite father and son and sift through the fallout of nuclear accidents, but not too deeply. For a monster, 'Godzilla' plays it a little too cool 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z It’s a horror show — and an apt, brutal metaphor for our offscreen world — with an abandoned nuclear power plant and a derelict amusement park. Review: Wes Anderson’s Bleakly Beautiful ‘Isle of Dogs’ 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z If terrorists wanted to do extensive damage, what better way than to get the nuclear codes? A movie revisits the night a nuclear warhead nearly destroyed Arkansas 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z Recent census data reveal an unlikely trend: The good old nuclear family, declining across the United States, is on the rise here. End of the nuclear family? Not in Seattle 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z I happen to be in sympathy with these authors’ view that nuclear power must be a major part of the worldwide campaign to limit and reverse global warming. A Sensible Climate Change Solution, Borrowed From Sweden 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z In 1979 “The China Syndrome” was released just 12 days before the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island. | 'Covert Affairs': USA?s ?Covert Affairs? Evokes a Cold War Feeling 2010-07-12T21:49:00Z Ford never kept me up at night, worrying about nuclear war. What Toronto Knows about Trump after Living through Rob Ford 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Newton may also be the last hope for Earth, as he races to complete his life-or-death mission before the outbreak of global nuclear war. Review | ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ is a bestseller, but its author, Walter Tevis, was hardly a one-hit wonder 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z Iran's leaders insist the country's nuclear program is solely for peaceful purposes. Poll: Global policy a hit at home 2012-05-18T06:05:00Z The fire-breathing, reptilian monster - a combination of the Japanese words for whale and gorilla - is a mutation caused by nuclear testing. New Godzilla film to be made in Japan 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z In grainy, monochrome tones, he shot broken marble angels in the grounds of a Christian church and a cracked wristwatch, its hands frozen at 11.02am, the exact time of the nuclear detonation. Shomei Tomatsu obituary 2013-01-14T15:10:46Z Made at a time when the theory of mutual assured destruction was a prominent fear in much of the world, the film posits a “canceler” that can disable nuclear weapons. ‘The Unknown Man of Shandigor’ Review: A Sci-Fi Fable of the Nuclear Anxiety Age 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z A few works in the show touch on the military, government or nuclear anxiety. 'Unsettled' explores the terrain — physical and political — of the West 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z In the first issue, Swann is asked to stop a British scientist from defecting to the Soviet Union and, in the process, helping them expand their nuclear weapons program. John Byrne crafts 'period piece' set in Cold War 2011-07-13T10:05:08Z Sounds like exactly the wrong person to be anywhere near nuclear weapons. 'CSI' alum William Petersen is joining 'Manhattan' 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z Israel views Iran as a threat to its existence, citing among other things some Iranian calls for its destruction and fears that Iran aims to produce nuclear weapons. Nobel winner Grass: Israel a threat to world peace 2012-04-04T13:41:08Z Whether it's a meteor strike, climate disaster or nuclear war, the end has nearly always been told in the same way for over 60 years: abruptly, hopelessly and completely. With threats of nuclear war and climate disaster growing, America’s "bunker fantasy" is inadequate 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Crist reveals military contingency plans to occupy and even use nuclear weapons on Iranian soil in the event of a Soviet incursion. Books of The Times: ‘The Twilight War,’ by David Crist 2012-07-30T22:09:06Z Every monster that ever terrorized an urban area or a small town is an allegory for the threat of nuclear annihilation or some such. Critic’s Notebook: Horror Films at the Tribeca Film Festival 2013-04-17T22:10:07Z A year later, a 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck the Fukushima Power Plant in Japan sparking a fierce debate in the U.S. over the safety and viability of nuclear power. Carpetbagger: Eclectic as Ever, Sundance Unveils Competition Lineup 2011-11-30T21:00:03Z Obama, for example, explored the idea of declaring a no-first-use policy — that is, pledging that the United States would use nuclear weapons only in retaliation to a nuclear attack. Nuclear Nightmares 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z But how much do most Americans know of the real-life Bikini Atoll, the location of 23 U.S. nuclear weapons tests during the Cold War era? SpongeBob’s Bikini Bottom is based on a real-life test site for nuclear weapon 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z He also joked that if North Korea were to drop a nuclear bomb on the United States, he hoped it would fall on Hartford. Chappelle Returns to Hartford (All Is Forgiven) 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z Her parents are “Vermont’s power couple” — they both work at a nearby nuclear facility, her mother as the plant’s communications director, her father as chief engineer for operations. Review: ‘Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands,’ by Chris Bohjalian On one hand, the events themselves are troubling enough: there is no mystery in someone being stressed by a surge in reported hate crimes or by the prospect of nuclear war. ‘Every day brings some new trauma’: keeping calm in an anxious world 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z Lundquist suggests assembling the key stakeholders, such as one representative from each nuclear unit, on the phone a handful of times to talk explicitly about logistics. Surviving your multigenerational family vacation 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z Pinker is particularly sharp on the dangers of ignoring or overriding the systems that make nuclear war unlikely. Steven Pinker Continues to See the Glass Half Full 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z Betrayals are revealed as the scientists prepare to detonate the first nuclear bomb in history. TV listings: Tuesday, December 15, 2015 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z After the Japanese nuclear catastrophe at Fukushima Daiichi in 2011, the Tokyo Electric Power Company set up a continuous live web feed of what proved to be a Sisyphean cleanup effort. ‘The Fifth Season’ 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z Initially, enforcement is limited to those entering federal and military facilities and nuclear power plants. Will Airport Security Accept Your Driver’s License? 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z They are shown providing support for the Taliban in Afghanistan and scheming to set off a nuclear suitcase bomb in archenemy India's capital. Pakistan bans film featuring Indian James Bond 2012-03-26T09:16:04Z Russia’s co-operative stance on brokering the nuclear deal with Iran shows that the country is not always and everywhere a deluded spoiler in world affairs. Blind alley 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z That The Apprentice propelled Trump to the Oval Office, giving him the nuclear codes and a platform to threaten North Korea with Armageddon via Twitter, is a level of weird not even Theroux’s oeuvre anticipated. Louis Theroux: ‘For all his awfulness, I admire Trump’s shamelessness’ 2017-10-08T04:00:00Z As a practical matter, Talmadge says, it’s virtually impossible to get officials or civilians to provide accurate information about issues such as human rights, the military or North Korea’s nuclear program. Eric Talmadge is the only Western reporter regularly in North Korea. Here’s what it’s like. 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z But what if the nuclear explosion sparked some Buck Rogers-style suspended animation, leaving Stamper drifting in orbit accumulating increasing amounts of cosmic debris until he himself became a threat to Earth? From Gladiator to Scarface: five film heroes to bring back from the dead 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z It imagines the detailed reporting filed by a commission in 2023, three years after nuclear attacks on the United States, South Korea and Japan left millions dead. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Imagining the Unimaginable in a Nuclear-War Novel 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z Kai Bird, a close friend and the co-author of “American Prometheus,” called him “probably the preeminent historian of the nuclear age.” Martin J. Sherwin, Pulitzer-winning scholar, dead at 84, 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z His mother, the former Margaret Conlin, was a homemaker who became, later in life, an advocate for homeless and runaway children and an activist against nuclear proliferation. Michael Crawford, Wiseacre With a Pen, Dies at 70 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z As its name suggests, nuclear fusion involves the nuclei of two hydrogen atoms sticking together. When the universe began 2012-07-22T12:00:00Z Something fairly similar to this happened recently, except the commanding officer didn't take his undetectable, state-of-the-art nuclear submarine rogue. How WikiLeaks killed the conspiracy thriller 2010-12-02T22:30:00Z The Simpsons frequently tackles real-world problems like nuclear war, corrupt politicians and obnoxious neighbors with such grace and humor that we forget how grave or stubborn the problems are. ?The Simpsons? Marks 25 Years and Endless Inspiration 2012-04-22T23:48:06Z Controversial psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich developed the idea of Characterology, which essentially categorizes people into five groups stemming from experiences in our nuclear families. Which of these 5 dysfunctional personality types are you? 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z Cathal Coughlan of Fatima Mansions takes the shotgun approach in Shiny Happy People, spewing bile at multiple targets including REM, the nuclear family, the Zeebrugge ferry disaster, closet queens in government, advertising, and show business. Readers recommend: songs about anger – results 2012-12-20T14:00:00Z Then again, her lumpy skins of clay built over half-exposed chicken-wire frames like shattered, melting bodies might just as easily be left over from a nuclear blast. Lost treasures 2010-12-30T11:59:23Z Richard Rhodes’s review conforms, not surprisingly, to his longstanding bias in favor of nuclear power. Letters to the Editor 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Also worth checking out are The Bomb at the Tricycle, a two-part cycle of plays about the nuclear bomb. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2012-02-10T17:08:45Z The physicist Enrico Fermi and others likened the furiously rising cloud in the New Mexico desert to a mushroom, and that became the shape now inextricably associated with nuclear explosions. How the Mushroom Cloud Boomed and Bloomed Across American Pop Culture 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z If you ask, people are likely to talk about nuclear power, terrorists, radiation. Is civilization good? Author Jared Diamond investigates 2012-12-29T03:08:49Z Apparently now that the official first family is African-American, achievement of a nuclear family is no longer a mainstream cultural aspiration. A tale of two magazine covers: The Kardashians, the Lowes & America’s racist double standards 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z Bernstein composed this unabashedly theatrical symphony during the early 1960s, when the threat of nuclear war seemed all too real. The Best Classical Music Performances of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z What's striking is that many of the works convey a prevailing message: The political, scientific and regulatory establishment isn't telling the whole truth about the nuclear disaster. Japanese disaster films highlight victims' stories 2013-02-27T09:01:05Z The Hiroshima survivors learned invaluable lessons about surviving a nuclear detonation, but they were discouraged from disseminating this knowledge in the immediate aftermath. 2010-01-20T05:19:00Z That said, he has somehow gained the ability to survive clearly fatal helicopter crashes that occur in the wake of enormous nuclear explosions, so who am I to question his legitimacy? Terminator Salvation recap: McG gives us a robotic sequel with added stupidity 2013-07-12T11:20:00Z "Wow @nbc, a episode of The Event about a nuclear reactor explosion while the people of Japan suffer the same. #classless," wrote Twitter user @lukemcmanamon, of Middleton, Idaho. Bad timing for NBC's 'The Event' nuclear-themed episode 2011-03-15T04:44:00Z The newer and aspiring members of the nuclear club have arguments on their side. Countdown to Zero: Valerie Plame at the End of the World 2010-08-02T16:30:00Z So it’s no surprise that tossing a few grams of killer antibiotic into that nested universe causes a far-reaching nuclear holocaust. Before You Fill That Prescription, You May Want to Read These Books 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z By the time of Jimmy Carter’s presidency, the dissolution of the nuclear family structure had spread beyond minority groups. One marriage under god 2013-02-02T20:00:00Z But we now live in a world of oil spills and nuclear meltdowns, toxic dumps and accidental chemical poisoning. Can art help us understand environmental disaster? 2011-03-21T15:20:54Z And these delegates feared a nuclear arms race. Ian McEwan on Sweet Tooth – Guardian book club 2013-07-13T09:29:00Z His friends included Albert Einstein and I. F. Stone, and he was a noisy opponent of nuclear proliferation. Books of The Times: Brooke Newman?s ?Jenniemae & James?: Dad and the Maid 2010-04-01T21:47:00Z A nuclear war pushes humans into warrens of streamlined underground bunkers. 10 More Plays Where the Future Forecast Is Grim 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z The economy was sinking, crime was spiking, nuclear war was plausible, divorce rates were soaring and helicopter parenting was anomalous. Gen X Women: More Opportunities, Less Satisfaction? 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z Roy’s first essay “The End of Imagination” was published in 1998 as she broke from her image as a national icon to condemn India’s first nuclear tests. Arundhati Roy — beloved for her fiction, derided for her politics — won’t be silenced 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z Claire ends the show pregnant, enduring a nuclear crisis and fights off an assault with a letter opener by her husband’s fixer. Don Draper, Eleven, Selina Meyer lead AP roles of the decade 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z Historically, no other development in Fermi’s life ranks as high as the nuclear reactor, mighty versions of which produce more than 11 percent of the world’s electricity today. A Remarkable Man Among Remarkable Men and Women 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z Springfield, the town where the Simpsons live, is dominated by tycoon Monty Burns, owner of the local nuclear power station. Rupert Murdoch: a real-life Mr Burns? 2011-07-11T15:37:50Z Sherwin was a New York City native whose interest in nuclear research dated back to his undergraduate years at Dartmouth College, when he spent a summer working at a uranium mine out West. Martin J. Sherwin, Pulitzer-winning scholar, dead at 84, 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z Others mocked the idea that there would be any survivors of a nuclear attack. Anna Lim’s Vision of Nuclear Anxiety in South Korea 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z Which, given the subject of nuclear annihilation, is exactly right. The Half-Century Anniversary of 'Dr. Strangelove' 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z Her next script, for "Silkwood," a 1983 drama about a female whistle-blower at a nuclear power plant, earned an Oscar nomination. 'Sleepless in Seattle' writer Nora Ephron dies at 71 2012-06-27T01:41:54Z The story begins with an explosion at a Hong Kong nuclear facility. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Crip Camp’ and ‘Dark Phoenix’ 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z Let's start with the genesis of this book, which was the expression "ok Boomer," which hit the internet like a nuclear bomb, except instead of radiation, the fallout was all whining from Boomers. New "OK Boomer" book tries to heal generational rift between Millennials and Boomers 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z Computerized satellites detected first one, then other launches — five in all — of nuclear missiles by the United States. Review: ‘The Man Who Saved the World’ Recounts a Cold War Near Miss 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z In 2007, six warheads were mistakenly flown from North Dakota to Louisiana before anyone realized that nuclear weapons had been in the air over the United States. Nervous about nukes again? Here’s what you need to know about The Button. (There is no button.) 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z In retrospect, the film seems all the more brilliant, bleak, and terrifyingly on the mark about the dangers of nuclear weaponry. Sunday Reading: On the Precipice 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z Remember, these nuclear families you’re working so hard to honor were once as new as yours is now. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Splitting time between grandparents leads to a splitting headache 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z We first encounter Blofeld in the novel Thunderball where he masterminds the theft of two nuclear bombs and uses them to blackmail the world's governments. Eoin Colfer's top ten villains 2013-05-23T11:09:56Z When the play was first produced, in 1982, fears of the bomb and nuclear energy were foremost in people's minds. Review: 'Angels Fall' cast wages emotional war, with truth as the prize 2010-06-08T22:38:00Z Let the nation see the nuclear football up close! Books of The Times: Thinking the Unthinkable Again in a New Nuclear Age 2011-03-01T16:45:09Z My novel "Golden Days," which ends on the beach, is set in Topanga Canyon, where people survive nuclear war because of those sheltering walls of earth. Carolyn See's California, as told to Barbara Isenberg 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z Try clicking on an upcoming Web show called "The Vault," which for one year will lock more than a dozen people in an underground bunker after a simulated nuclear holocaust. Reality TV gets real on the Web and in "The Vault" 2010-03-24T23:58:00Z Netanyahu has hinted strongly at Israeli military action if international sanctions fail to curb Iran's nuclear ambitions, which Tehran says are purely peaceful. New dad Nick Lachey to release a lullaby album 2013-02-26T17:01:05Z Yet Kennan found himself to the left of Washington for decades after, whether on Vietnam or the nuclear arms race. Cold War historian finishes epic on George Kennan 2012-04-19T17:08:13Z The Evil Empire, as Ronald Reagan had called it, had nuclear warheads trained on American cities and KGB spies infiltrating Washington. Explaining America to Americans: Why don’t you get the allure of your country for refugees — that no matter how horrible life is now, perhaps it’ll be better there? 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z Since then, the lead singer, Andy Oppenheimer, who is now 57 and works in London as an independent consultant on nuclear weapons and counterterrorism, has performed throughout Europe. Up Close: Talking With Veronica Vasicka, Founder of Minimal Wave 2012-04-11T21:05:26Z The old Russia is symbolized by a technological relic: an abandoned nuclear electrical generator on the island. | 'How I Ended This Summer': Standoff in a Frigid Circle of Hell 2011-01-27T23:18:21Z The director of documentary Countdown to Zero, released in the UK this week, explains why she was drawn to address the clear and present danger of nuclear proliferation. Nuclear threat 2011-06-23T07:43:08Z You should be able to tell me if there’s a nuclear warhead on this missile or not. The night we almost lost Arkansas — a 1980 nuclear Armageddon that almost was 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z With more than six thousand nuclear weapons in the American stockpile, we are still in the atomic age. Emmet Gowin’s Intimate Photography of Nuclear Destruction 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z The primary employer is Malmstrom Air Force Base, which services nuclear missile silos. Welcome to the Campiest Place on Earth 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z The white splotches looked like nuclear spitballs, and they were everywhere. When I parented my father 2013-03-04T23:57:00Z And thanks to geopolitics, he can’t stray far from “a black briefcase which held the doomsday codes that would allow the president to launch a nuclear counterstrike.” Just what America needs: A former New York City cop in the Oval Office 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z Because, frankly, putting together a nuclear program is cost-intensive and extremely difficult, thank goodness. "Countdown to Zero": Valerie Plame Wilson's new anti-nuke crusade 2010-07-23T01:02:00Z While the peace-loving Alliance tried to live in harmony with nature, the Crusaders all but destroyed and depopulated their own lands; their attempt to move tectonic plates using nuclear devices resulted in catastrophic volcanic eruptions. Noble Conflict by Malorie Blackman – review 2013-06-05T12:54:39Z He first saw the movie while sealed in a nuclear submarine. Patricia Lockwood Is a Priest’s Child (Really), but ‘From the Devil’ 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z If you study nuclear strategy, for lack of a better word, “Dr. Strangelove” is a thousand times smarter than people realize. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Imagining the Unimaginable in a Nuclear-War Novel 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z I am not good with snakes, but my greatest fear is nuclear warfare. Q&A: Joely Richardson 2015-07-18T04:00:00Z So: Japan was horribly hit last March by earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster. Critic?s Notebook: Music From Japan at Merkin Concert Hall 2012-02-17T00:37:24Z She and I talked about nuclear weapons and were very much on the CND side. Interview: Elizabeth Sigmund, dedicatee of The Bell Jar – Reading group 2013-01-18T17:16:43Z "Truly the stuff of spy films, the site features solid steel doors and high-powered computers and is resilient against a nuclear attack," wrote the Los Angeles Times. Assange: Bond villain -- or Bourne? 2010-12-03T16:04:00Z “Mr. Burns is the embodiment of nuclear power in ‘The Simpsons,’ and so he becomes a crucial figure for this society. ‘Mr. Burns’ Morphs ‘The Simpsons’ at Woolly Mammoth 2012-06-01T04:30:07Z After the worst nuclear disaster in history, the Soviet Union evacuated the towns near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, including the Ukrainian city of Pryp’yat. The 9 Most Spectacular Lost Cities in the World 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z The agency is dissolved and the group -- without any resources or backup -- must find a way to clear the agency's name, prevent another attack and avert a nuclear war. Tom Cruise on new world-saving mission impossible 2011-12-01T05:58:09Z Their relationship was sexual, exclusive, romantic, nuclear and involved two people. Friends are saying "I do" — but might not understand the legal risks of their platonic marriages 2021-06-26T04:00:00Z During the 1960s, Spock became a political activist, opposing the Vietnam War and nuclear proliferation and supporting civil rights. Dr. Spock’s timeless lessons in parenting 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z This is serious architecture, about as playful as a nuclear reactor. The new Sepentine pavilion is a rhapsody in red 2010-07-06T20:31:00Z Claiming it was for nuclear family only is a fake dichotomy, and I’m very annoyed. Dating After #MeToo 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z The day before we spoke, the Japanese prime minister had renounced his country’s dependence on nuclear energy. Haunting Unpredictability 2011-08-07T02:00:07Z It also includes interviews with survivors, who discuss what they knew about the nuclear power plant before the incident — and what they were told after. What’s on TV This Week: The Stanley Cup Finals and ‘Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes’ 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z The Cold War film "Dr. Strangelove" poked horrible fun at the idea of surviving a nuclear war. Fears drive satirical 'Odds Against Tomorrow' 2013-05-08T17:26:12Z A Future With Swords, Not iPhones Armageddon comes in every shade of black: nuclear war, global warming, pandemic, alien invasion, zombie takeover or, even in some cases, a quirk of physics. Television Review: ‘Revolution,’ From J. J. Abrams and Eric Kripke, on NBC 2012-09-16T22:07:53Z Sherwin reveals that on Day 12 of the crisis, a Soviet captain overruled a flawed order to unleash a nuclear missile on American ships blockading Cuba. Coming Close to Nuclear Holocaust 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z Not with a nuclear missile strike but with a run on kitty cat-festooned tote bags. Cheap chic ruined us 2012-06-13T11:45:00Z On the list of self-inflicted threats to humanity that we shove to the side in order to preserve our sanity, nuclear disaster — along with climate change — ranks at the top. In deft, distressing ‘Apocalypse Factory,’ Seattle author details Hanford’s role in the dawn of the nuclear age 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z In 1979, decades before the Fukushima nuclear accident shone a spotlight on Japan’s atomic power industry, he illustrated a magazine exposé of worker exploitation at the facility, titled “Darkness at the Fukushima Nuclear Plant.” Shigeru Mizuki, Influential Japanese Cartoonist, Dies at 93 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z And he has a master plan to free — read: enslave — Bruce’s city, employing the ability to cloud men’s minds by lightly touching their heads and, even more effective, a four-megaton nuclear device. TIME's Review of The Dark Knight Rises: To the Depths, To the Heights 2012-07-16T16:59:05Z The headlines were filled with apocalyptic scenarios — hellish wildfires, North Korean nuclear threats, melting glaciers, not to mention a long-prophesied economic collapse. The Most Vexing Unanswered Questions of 2017 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z Trump went on to suggest that Iran is likely “laughing at the stupidity” of the Americans negotiating on the nuclear deal. Donald Trump has all the answers to the Iran nuclear crisis: “The Persians are great negotiators” — we’re just sending the “wrong people” 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z This is Fukushima, Japan, deep in the heart of the restricted area around the eponymous nuclear plant. Big picture: Ostrich, by Magdalena Solé 2012-06-08T21:59:39Z The nuclear crisis reminds everyone of the war – even as they face ultimate destruction, there is the curious happiness of having something like a purpose again, encouraging solidarity. The Boulting brothers: holy fools 2013-07-26T13:00:19Z To wit, both Madge and her then husband Guy Ritchie lobbied the British government and the nuclear industry at the highest levels. Gwyneth Paltrow explains why water just doesn't like bad vibes 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Nominally about politics — the author is a former political speechwriter — it’s really a skittering satire about a fissured nuclear family that could be transposed to almost any other power industry. ‘Let’s Not Do That Again,’ a Crackling Satire Set Against a Senate Run 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z Book Review Podcast: The State of the Nuclear World This week in The New York Times Book Review, Bill Keller reviews three new books that address the current thinking about nuclear weapons. ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: The State of the Nuclear World 2013-01-11T20:44:21Z Still, as sobering, thrilling and distracting as they may be, our greatest nuclear pop songs are little more than hedges against the void. Perspective | Can a pop song prepare us for the end of the world? 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z Unlike other atomic isotopes, this one — developed by a neighborhood nuclear physicist — absorbs energy, doubling in size every 12 hours. Alchemy Amok in ‘Gold’ and Its Offspring, ‘The Magnetic Monster’ 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z Dubbed “Fallout Shelter,” the game takes a far more cutesy approach than this November’s “Fallout 4,” as players will manage the tiny inhabitants of a nuclear shelter. E3: Bethesda confirms 'Dishonored 2,' details 'Fallout 4' 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z It may well end with tactical nuclear strikes. ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2, Episode 2: The World Said Enough 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z But Americans were not remotely told the truth about how close we came to nuclear Armageddon in the heartland. The night we almost lost Arkansas — a 1980 nuclear Armageddon that almost was 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z It’s not that he has not scored important, even historic successes as president: the Affordable Care Act, the Iranian nuclear deal. Where has this Barack Obama been? If Obama had governed like this in 2009, he’d be a transformational, historic president 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z He accepted commissions for public health campaigns in New York and Barcelona, against nuclear proliferation and against apartheid in South Africa. Keith Haring, the Political Line – review 2013-05-14T13:01:35Z Throughout the novel, characters emphasize that nuclear weapons be used only as a last resort. New Political Thrillers Head to the Brink of Disaster (and Dive In) 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z But she admires his prickly humor and unflagging activism, from his pacifism in World War I to his support for nuclear disarmament in the 1970s. For Sarah Bakewell, Nothing Human is Alien 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z Lorent's commitment to engaging with a whole family – "not necessarily a nuclear family, but certainly something generational" – chimed with Duffy's own approach. Carol Ann Duffy's Rapunzel lets her hair down 2013-03-15T14:01:01Z Western suspicions about activities at Parchin date back to at least 2004, when a prominent nuclear expert assessed that satellite images showed it might be a site for research and experiments applicable to nuclear weapons. Iran to let U.N. nuclear sleuths visit military site 2012-03-06T13:19:00Z "Even though my film mainly deals with nuclear arms proliferation, the consequences are the same." Nuclear threat 2011-06-23T07:43:08Z It’s always a bad sign when a show starts using satire and song as a nuclear option rather than as a subtle slap on the rear. ‘American Horror Story: Freak Show’: Carny cornballs I did a similar thing when I made a film about Indian Point, the nuclear power plant north of New York City where I grew up. Roy Cohn Got Her Grandparents Executed. She Made a Film About Him. 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z It looks at first glance like a skinned animal, but is a beer bottle rendered grotesque and muscular-looking by the intense heat of the nuclear blast that devastated Nagasaki on 9 August 1945. Shomei Tomatsu obituary 2013-01-14T15:10:46Z A train chugs in under the opening credits carrying a bounty of goods: gravel, avocados, pecans, John Deere tractors, plump Pontiacs and a 10-megaton nuclear warhead. ‘Asteroid City’ Review: Our Town and Country 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z "Of course, I would not recommend nuclear detonations as a means of corrective eye surgery," he said years later. 2010-01-22T14:18:00Z Meanwhile, international negotiations aimed at getting North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons remain stalled. Journalist says she confessed in N. Korean prison 2010-05-18T18:31:00Z At the same time he’s pointedly portrayed as a caring father and husband, and someone who will, at the last extreme of presidential impetuosity, take a stand against needlessly provoking other nuclear powers. ‘Space Force’ Review: Steve Carell, in a Familiar Orbit on Netflix 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said "disarmament is part of the DNA of the United Nations" which was formed after nuclear weapons were used for the first and last time against Japan in World War II. Actor Michael Douglas says the winning posters in a global competition to commemorate the first UN General Assembly resolution 70 years ago calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons "instantly create a universal message of peace." 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z And it worked impressively, physically destroying a key part of the nuclear program. Fighting Wars Past, Present and Future 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z They may think nuclear war a high probability or that climate change disasters are inevitable. The one percent plans to ride out the end of the world in style 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z His ability to save the world from nuclear Armageddon entirely depended on his ability to convince America’s enemies — and his own followers — that he was willing to use nuclear weapons. Books of The Times: Evan Thomas’s ‘Ike’s Bluff’ Looks at Eisenhower 2012-09-24T22:29:05Z Iran will discuss its nuclear program with major powers on May 23. Netanyahu surprise gives Israel grand coalition 2012-05-08T12:15:11Z Iran remains defiant but says it wants nuclear technology strictly for peaceful purposes. Obama, Netanyahu face struggle over Iran 'red lines' 2012-03-05T13:09:00Z Eminem accused Trump of cowardice, saying the President would start a nuclear war and then fly around in a plane to avoid any personal danger. ‘This Racist 94-Year-Old Grandpa.’ The 4 Biggest Disses in Eminem’s Trump Rap 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z Though it's never clear just what calamity has ruined the landscape - a meteor? a nuclear war? - the knights bravely carry on as long as they can. 2 updated visions of Wagner's last opera 2011-02-21T13:16:05Z Recent polls have shown a majority of the population is in favor of scaling back the nuclear industry. Music: Japan's New Wave of Protest Songs 2011-06-30T11:22:09Z One of the more startling bits of history revisited in the program is the military’s experiment with backpack-size nuclear weapons in the mid-1960s. Networks Salute Veterans Day With Contemporary Shows 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z “They are intelligent people who want to learn something new, and are often interested in nuclear power,” he said. In Ukraine, a radioactive nuclear ghost town near Chernobyl is a hot destination 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned that history pointed to "additional provocations" from North Korea after the launch, an apparent reference to a nuclear test. Defiant North Korea begins injecting fuel into rocket 2012-04-11T11:40:07Z In “Never,” Follett posits a similar scenario, one made infinitely more dangerous by the worldwide proliferation of nuclear weapons. Review | Ken Follett’s latest epic is a cautionary tale of global catastrophe 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z From Al Qaeda to a Japanese terror cult, potential customers seem most likely to get lucky in Russia, where stolen nuclear materials have been exchanged for household appliances and fancy cars. | 'Countdown to Zero': Movies by Victor Nu?ez, Brillante Ma. Mendoza and Lucy Walker 2010-07-22T22:58:00Z But the tsunami that swept in from the earthquake's epicentre 20 minutes later, and washed away most of a small fishing port and swamped the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, killed at least 15,000. The Million Death Quake by Roger Musson – review 2012-11-09T09:20:19Z In it, Mr. Grass writes: “Why do I say only now, / Aged and with my last ink, / That the nuclear power of Israel endangers / The already fragile world peace?” ArtsBeat: Rushdie Among Those Who Respond to Israel's Ban of G?nter Grass 2012-04-09T20:54:00Z He was a family-values spokesman, he reminded us, a positivity spreader who’d made a video game modelled after his own handsome nuclear family. “Irresponsible,” Reviewed: Kevin Hart’s Family Values 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z Readers could reasonably assume that female members of the species did not survive the first nuclear holocaust. A Science-Fiction Classic Still Smolders 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z One of his most praised moves was standing up a nonproliferation system that invited like-minded countries — under rules established by the United States — to stop ships suspected of carrying nuclear weapons or materials. John Bolton’s been a political brawler for decades, but his rumble with Donald Trump is extreme — even for him. 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z Every time we steer in close enough to inspect a natural wonder – the white cliffs of Dover or the Dungeness nuclear power station – our vessel tilts, alarmingly, as 650 cameras whirr and click. Marine Court: Hymn to the Sun 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z New York Police Department Commissioner Ray Kelly appears in the film talking about the threat of terrorists using nuclear weapons. Makers defend Islam movie criticized by NYC mayor 2012-01-25T22:49:08Z Thirty-nine percent still preferred the nuclear option, in spite of the enormous loss of life. America has stopped worrying, loves the bomb 2013-03-19T18:50:00Z Wilson suggests that a nuclear strike is problematic because the anomaly is on foreign soil, though such diplomatic awkwardness probably wouldn’t matter if we’re all dead. Review | Michael Crichton’s classic thriller ‘The Andromeda Strain’ gets a deadly sequel 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Despite his tendency to personalize the plot, Mr. Apatow says the movie is not really about him and the three-quarters of his nuclear family who appear in it. Judd Apatow’s Life as Art in ‘This Is 40’ 2012-11-14T15:13:43Z As a student in the 1930s in Italy he discovered the principle which today underpins nuclear power, and which was important in developing the atomic bomb. Frank Close: What I'm thinking about ... Higgs Boson and nuclear spies 2012-08-18T09:36:59Z Near steep vineyards of riesling grapes, in an underground vault at an air force base in western Germany, sits an American nuclear bomb. Meet the nuke the U.S. keeps in Europe, waiting to not be used 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z Although he's previously commanded nuclear subs, he's now put in charge of a dilapidated vessel that's about to be sold to the Chinese navy. Review: Sub drama 'Phantom' remains submerged 2013-02-28T20:10:12Z On the other side, rather than a pornotopia, I found the habitat of a cheery nuclear family. Nicholson Baker 2011-08-13T23:04:05Z The hundreds of nuclear bombs detonated at Yucca Flat since the 1950s were mostly set off underground. Review | Should museums mount exhibitions with a moral agenda? Absolutely. If they do it well. 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z Or the German amusement park built in an abandoned nuclear power plant. Big, Beautiful Books to Catch the Eye of Every Child 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z Watch three or four episodes of it in a row – as I did with the first series – and you’ll end up hating the titles with a nuclear intensity. True Detective's opening credits: a thing of beauty (that goes on a bit too long) 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z "I had a father and a mother made up to look like half a dog and half a cat as a result of a nuclear meltdown," Brooks told Siskel. 11 memorable facts about "History Of The World, Part I" 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z At a public event last week to promote his book "The Doomsday Machine," Ellsberg revealed that Nixon had plans drawn up for the use of nuclear weapons on North Vietnam. ‘The Shape of Water’ and ‘Big Little Lies’ Lead Golden Globe Nominations 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z Phelim O'Neill From the 1950s to the early-90s, Russian nuclear warheads were tested in a part of Kazakhstan named "The Polygon". TV highlights 19/7/11 2011-07-18T21:59:01Z The only person standing between America the Beautiful and nuclear annihilation is a disheveled woman wearing Spanx. Review | Hillary Clinton’s thriller with Louise Penny is a thinly veiled jab at a Very Stable Genius 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z Released shortly after President Carter took office in 1977, “Twilight’s Last Gleaming” imagines an American nuclear missile silo taken hostage by a rogue former colonel and three prison escapees. Burt Lancaster in ‘Twilight’s Last Gleaming’ 2012-10-20T23:03:01Z But in February, Tokyo Electric Power Co., the utility that operated the nuclear power plant, determined radiation levels remained dangerously high, forcing it to remove a remote-controlled cleaning robot dispatched inside a damaged reactor. Recalling the devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z Some say it’s about the Soviet Union’s gulag prison camp system, others that its real subject is nuclear disaster. What’s on TV Monday: ‘The Bachelor’ and ‘The New Pope’ 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z There is an excellent chapter on official "risk communications", ridiculing a US Homeland Security website that seems to imply you can outrun a nuclear explosion a block away. Etcetera: Steven Poole's non-fiction choice ? reviews 2011-08-05T21:55:00Z In 2009, North Korea followed a failed attempt to put a satellite into orbit with a nuclear test. Secure despite rocket fiasco, N.Korea's Kim lauds military 2012-04-15T08:57:00Z The second episode concluded with gruff talk of nuclear missiles, though the 1980s seemed mainly represented by some unnecessarily frightening denim – if Russell's jeans-waistband gets any higher she'll have to undo her fly to speak. Rewind TV: The Call Centre; The Apprentice; The Americans; Love and Marriage; The Unspeakable Crime: Rape 2013-06-08T17:04:01Z Mr. Cruise pilots a chopper through mountainous terrain to retrieve and disable the remote detonator of two nuclear bombs. Tom Cruise’s Most Dangerous Stunts in ‘Mission: Impossible’ 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z “This talk of nuclear war displays such contempt for music, art, literature and everything else that defines civilization. So what kind of book should I write?” The Prescient Anger of Arundhati Roy 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z Tehran says its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes like energy production and cancer treatment. Iran state TV says Oscar win victory over Israel 2012-02-27T13:29:08Z Eternal yet ephemeral: One of their performances is immolated in a nuclear test explosion. Reif Larsen's 'I Am Radar' transmits narrative magic 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z Imagine when not only people, but houses, cars and even nuclear reactors can fall prey to malicious infection. Review | Coronavirus feels like something out of a sci-fi novel. Here’s how writers have imagined similar scenarios. 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z Even Miller’s basic premise—that the Catholic Church, like a cockroach, cannot be killed by a nuclear war—made me chuckle throughout. A Science-Fiction Classic Still Smolders 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z “When you’re struck with this innocence, this freshness, there’s this nuclear sensation of being hit. I think we’re all drinking it in, unaware of how much we needed it.” Opera’s Miss Congeniality Takes On a Rare ‘Cinderella’ 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z On a day when Trump was meeting Chinese president Xi Jinping in Florida with North Korea's nuclear threat high on the agenda, Trump's double hammed it up with the hermit kingdom's leader. Lookalike Trump, Obama, Kim offer comic relief in Hong Kong 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z However, he continues to report for NBC; in May, he was the lead reporter on an investigation into leaks at nuclear waste storage tanks at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state. How two publications raced each other to disclose a Hollywood horror story 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z In the Season 2 premiere, a nuclear incident exposes this secret, setting off a whirlwind of panic. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Salvation’ and ‘Ballet 422’ 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z His Ninth Symphony, a wrenchingly meditative commemoration of the third anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster and the 70th of Hiroshima, had its premiere earlier this year in Tokyo. A dean of Japanese music talks boundaries, John Cage and life with Yoko Ono 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z The members of an upstanding, upper-middle-class nuclear family are terrorized by a malign force. Review: Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman and ‘The Killing of a Sacred Deer’ 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z Tehran says its nuclear program is only for energy and medical research, and refuses to halt uranium enrichment. Report: Iran begins uranium enrichment at new site as Guard threatens key strait closure 2012-01-08T12:44:00Z Try to follow the “abridged” genealogical chart provided by the museum, with its interlocking axes of descendance and intermarriage, and you may rediscover the mercies of the nuclear family. ‘The Sassoons’: A Family Romance at Global Scale 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Oliver then went on to play his audience a verbatim transcription of Trump’s comments about the Iranian nuclear agreement. John Oliver on Trump: 'An iPhone would be a more coherent president' 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z Civilians would be defending themselves against nuclear war. This nuclear fallout shelter was untouched for 55 years. It might come in handy now. 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z “It would tend to make nuclear war seem inevitable to children.” This nuclear fallout shelter was untouched for 55 years. It might come in handy now. 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z The corduroy and landlines are a clear marker of the period, but what Stranger Things captures best is that intangible 80s feeling, where the existence of alternate dimensions seemed just as likely as nuclear war. Why I love... Caleb McLaughlin 2016-09-03T04:00:00Z He received a doctoral degree in physics from Yale, where he researched ultrarare nuclear decays. Natalie Heer, Jeremy Cushman 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z The sentence comes at a time when tension between Iran and the West over Tehran's nuclear program has reached a new high, rattling global oil markets. Iran sentences American to die for spying 2012-01-09T12:02:00Z One morning last week, Richard Nixon’s White House counsel woke from a dream about Donald Trump and nuclear war. John Dean experienced Watergate from inside. He’s watching Donald Trump closely. 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z Today’s Europe, thankfully, is not haunted by the specter of nuclear war. Europe’s Glorious Years of Peace and Prosperity 2019-05-04T04:00:00Z Nuclear terrorism, nuclear war in the Middle East or South Asia, or grotesque accident -- all are unfortunately plausible. Valerie Plame on Naomi Watts and nuclear doom 2010-05-17T19:45:00Z What if you want to be a nuclear physicist?’ They Have No Reservations (About Each Other) 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z Later that year on December 2, the first nuclear chain reaction was achieved under a soccer stadium at the University of Chicago. "Funky Drummer" Clyde Stubblefield, keeper of James Brown's beat, never truly got his due 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z The funnyman’s first novel involves nuclear bombs, Russian gangsters, giant pythons — just ordinary life in Miami. Perspective | We need comic novels more than ever. So where are they? 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z Need an escape from the real world, with its rampaging wildfires, threats of nuclear warfare and endless hurricanes? What’s on TV Friday: ‘Hell or High Water’ and ‘This Is the End’ 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z "Dear Jim, please could you fix it for me to be the captain of a nuclear submarine?" Tonight's TV highlights: Raymond Blanc's Kitchen Secrets 2011-03-14T07:59:01Z The Naval Surface Weapons Center at White Oak prospered throughout the Cold War, conducting classified research and development on torpedoes, mines, nuclear triggers and much more. How Nazi scientists and their wind tunnels ended up in D.C.’s suburbs 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z Hamid's debut, Moth Smoke, was formally conventional, though its subject matter caused a stir – imagine a McInerney party novel, set in Lahore, with bootleg whisky, cheap heroin and nuclear neighbours. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid – review 2013-03-28T08:00:02Z After the war ended, four of them—Hogue included—died young, quite possibly owing to exposure to nuclear radiation. Rich pickings 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Did Britain seriously consider threatening Argentina with submarine-launched nuclear missiles, as has sometimes been alleged, if less apocalyptic tactics failed? Secrets of the Conqueror by Stuart Prebble – review 2012-10-12T07:00:02Z Back in 1979, the “No Nukes” concert escaped the film phobia because a crew was on hand to make a documentary on the benefit for alternatives to nuclear energy. ‘No Nukes’ footage bypasses Springsteen’s aversion to film 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z Thrash bands in the 1980s such as Nuclear Assault and Sodom often sang about the threat of nuclear war. Why Ai Weiwei and heavy metal are a perfect match 2013-03-11T13:59:02Z “The Day After,” the made-for-TV movie dramatizing a nuclear war and its aftermath in the heartland, drew 100 million viewers and started a national conversation. ‘Extrapolations’ and the Peril of Climate Cringe 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z But by then nuclear power was anathema to the Democratic Party and American and European Greens, a tragic misalignment of liberal values. A Sensible Climate Change Solution, Borrowed From Sweden 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z At some point, you either have Fitz ordering a nuclear strike on the rogue nation of Boomtikistan or you run out of road. Death by boldness: has Scandal got itself in a crisis even Olivia Pope couldn't fix? 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z It was software inserted, almost certainly by American and Israeli intelligence agencies, into Iranian computers running that country’s nuclear enrichment program. Fighting Wars Past, Present and Future 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Far from being diesel or nuclear vessels, they are powered by scuba divers pedaling furiously. 'Underwater bicycle' submarines race it out in UK pool 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z In the Department of Energy, which oversees international nuclear risk, understaffing means there might not be enough inspectors to track down black market uranium. Michael Lewis’s Next Book Promises to Be a Page-Turner — About Government Bureaucracy 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z Survivors recorded testimony for the Truman Library; he spent five years talking to New York students about nuclear threats. When Truman is your grandpa: The complicated lives of presidential descendants 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Just as the first Watchmen reflected the Doomsday-clock nuclear paranoia of the cold war, so this story, set 35 years later, chimes with America’s current racial tensions. Auteurs assemble! What caused the superhero backlash? 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z It was the colorful kimonos, expressions of tradition and culture, and the lively protests against nuclear weapons that drew Castillo’s eye. Why Oscar Castillo's photos of Chicano life and protest are essential for understanding L.A. 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z Wry, shy and fragile-looking, Hall gets off lightly here, with little interrogation of his patriotism, personal ethics or fears of a nuclear world’s potential for catastrophic error. ‘A Compassionate Spy’ Review: Back to the U.S.S.R. 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z And it’s the president’s mission to kill and gut the assassin, who has a key sewn into his heart that will unlock the nuclear football. ‘The Leftovers’ Season 3, Episode 7: Bombs Away 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z And by placing Hall’s leaking of nuclear secrets to the Soviets within the context of the couple’s romantic and robust marriage, James gently wraps the viewer in the warmth of Joan’s memories. ‘A Compassionate Spy’ Review: Back to the U.S.S.R. 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z The film’s comic setup is built around the unfunny idea of North Korea’s ramped-up nuclear arsenal and the notion that its missiles can reach the West Coast. How “The Interview” Handled the Assassination of Kim Jong-Un 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z To illustrate the problem posed by nuclear arsenals that many embraced as the best way to prevent war and aggression, Kahn imagined a “doomsday machine.” Is Nuclear War Inevitable? 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z And the biggest public advocate of such a nuclear option is Lythgoe. "Idol" faces big changes as former producer returns 2010-07-27T01:27:00Z In 1991, Scientology offered “rundown” treatments in Russia to people suffering symptoms related to radiation exposure following the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986. Vietnamese turn to Scientology to treat Agent Orange victims 2013-04-04T13:01:00Z Fear of nuclear annihilation was also high in the 1980s, but if it hasn’t happened already in Blade Runner, it might as well have done. ‘I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe’: what Blade Runner 2049’s dystopia tells us about 2017 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z Else is currently working on a book about nuclear testing. ‘Oppenheimer’ Fans Are Rediscovering a 40-Year-Old Documentary 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Despite exploding buses and the grim prospect of nuclear annihilation, these pages are leavened by Ellen’s trusty sidekick, a retired schoolteacher based on a real-life friend of Clinton. Review | Hillary Clinton’s thriller with Louise Penny is a thinly veiled jab at a Very Stable Genius 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z My friend read the multiple-choice questions out loud, some of which — like “In a certain light, wouldn’t nuclear war be exciting?” — made me shake my head. We Wanted to Split Up. OkCupid Had Other Ideas. 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z Fowler hopes the book will dispel a more mainstream misapprehension: that this is a doomsday vault, a time capsule to unlock after a nuclear Armageddon. Dispelling myths around the Arctic Circle’s famed ‘doomsday’ seed vault 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z Still, Iran’s move raises the pressure on the West for some reciprocal gestures to keep dialogue on track and further highlights Tehran’s apparent aims of opening a long give-and-take process over its nuclear ambitions. Marvel Comics plans wedding for gay hero Northstar 2012-05-22T16:46:00Z Though coincidental, the dialogue stood out amid the nuclear fears at hand in Japan as a result of last week's devastating earthquake and tsunami, prompting reaction by viewers on and elsewhere online. Bad timing for NBC's 'The Event' nuclear-themed episode 2011-03-15T04:44:00Z No. 2 is the nuclear option, which is to disqualify the film. 2010-01-14T18:15:00Z The screens went inky; Central Park plunged into what looked like nuclear winter; and the entire game paused. ?EatSleepPlay,? at Children?s Museum of Manhattan 2011-11-10T22:04:12Z Another orchestra from one of the nations that negotiated the nuclear deal, the China Philharmonic Orchestra, performed in Tehran earlier this month. Daniel Barenboim Provokes Backlash Over Iran Concert 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z “Fox & Friends” had repeatedly asked whether the crescent-shaped logo of the nuclear security summit was an “Islamic image,” one selected by in his outreach to the Muslim world. Jon Stewart of ?The Daily Show? Takes On Fox News 2010-04-23T22:21:00Z Narrated by a 16-year-old girl in Vermont, Bohjalian’s suspenseful and provocative novel pushes some hot buttons — child homelessness, mental illness, nuclear energy — while creating one of the most memorable teenage protagonists in recent fiction. The top 50 fiction books for 2014 Her book moves on to the surveillance technology that was meant to override the need for nuclear arsenals. Books of The Times: A Military Post?s Secrets: Espionage, Not Aliens 2011-05-15T22:11:44Z Even if that film has a sequence where the hero is catapulted to safety during a nuclear explosion by hiding in a fridge. One for the money: the great actors who slummed it in daft movies 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z In the 1950s, even as the good times rolled economically, America’s nuclear fear created something historically new and ominous — a thoroughly secular image of the apocalypse. America’s psychic numbing: Why we’re so obsessed with “apocalypse” 2014-02-26T13:30:00Z In national security meetings, he dives for the nuclear football like the Trix rabbit. Review: ‘Our Cartoon President’ Misses a Huuuge Target 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z It came with a Razzie Award for worst supporting actress and criticism for wearing skimpy attire to play a nuclear weapons expert named Christmas Jones. The unbelievable believability of Denise Richards 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z One narrative line in the book concerns "a terrifying nuclear weapon accident in the American heartland." ArtsBeat: 'Fast Food Nation' Author Will Return With Book on Nuclear Weapons 2012-10-05T21:22:44Z The subtitle is “A Fable from the Age of Science” and it deals with a lot of things he’s fascinated by – communism, game theory, DDT, nuclear power – weaving them together in a very original way. 50 documentaries you need to see 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z Rosbaud despised Nazism, and he likely knew that Paul, his brother, was spying on the German nuclear program for Britain. He Was an Important Conductor. Also a Great One. 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z It is, more than a science-fiction novel, a Cold War one: espionage, superpower antics, and the threat of nuclear war loom large. Roberto Bolaño and the Beat Connection 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z In “Fukushima,” two scientists, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the Union of Concerned Scientists, an environmental group, recount the unlikely story of an earthquake that unleashed a tsunami that caused three nuclear meltdowns. ‘Fukushima:’ a catastrophe that could happen here 2014-03-19T18:44:47Z All three leaders clashed over global affairs, including Europe, climate change, tax, nuclear weapons and sleaze. Second debate attracts 4m people 2010-04-23T10:10:00Z An unsuspecting reader who picks up this book expecting a buttoned-down, blue-blazered examination of our nuclear present, a Tom Clancy kind of nonfiction volume, is in for an intellectual drag race. Books of The Times: Thinking the Unthinkable Again in a New Nuclear Age 2011-03-01T16:45:09Z Suspenseful, provocative, often terrifying yet compassionate, it pushes a variety of hot buttons — child homelessness, mental illness, nuclear energy — all while creating one of the most memorable teenage protagonists in recent fiction. Review: ‘Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands,’ by Chris Bohjalian Before impending nuclear annihilation, a husband paints the windows white and builds a lean-to shelter while his wife frets about his staining the curtains and marking the wallpaper. Raymond Briggs, Illustrator of ‘The Snowman,’ Dies at 88 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z Godzilla was originally imagined as a metaphor for nuclear weapons, and as a response to disasters like the ones at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Godzilla: Behind-the-Scenes 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z At its core, “The Incendiaries” is about religious fervor, which has long functioned as America’s nuclear fuel: useful and energizing, except when it melts down and explodes. Review | ‘The Incendiaries’ is the most buzzed-about debut of the summer, as it should be 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Soon Pakistan joined the nuclear club and — through one evil genius, the engineer A.Q. Countdown to Zero: Valerie Plame at the End of the World 2010-08-02T16:30:00Z Assange told the Oxford Union that Condon's film began with scenes inside a military complex in Iran, where nuclear symbols could clearly be seen. Julian Assange attacks new WikiLeaks movie 2013-01-24T11:20:29Z Plame's husband Wilson, a former diplomat and Africa expert, is sent by the CIA to Niger to find out whether it had a deal to ship uranium to Iraq for possible nuclear weapons manufacture. New film explores outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame 2010-05-20T11:14:00Z Turns out a Spanish bloke had just gone for a lengthy toilet break, but the film is a clear-sighted, logically argued illustration of where we're at with nuclear bombs. Cannes round-up by Jason Solomon 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z All the donors were stellar — spotless medical histories and well-scribed personal narratives about why they wanted to donate — but it didn't eclipse the image of a nuclear family I'd always envisioned for myself. Swiping right in the fertility doctor's office: On pursuing romance and single motherhood at once 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z First of all, do these politicians have any guarantee that in case — God forbid — Russia does manage to swallow Ukraine, they won’t use nuclear weapons? Russia and Ukraine Have Long Been This Filmmaker’s Subject 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z And maybe there are more feelings of futility now than there were then, even as anxieties about nuclear holocaust loomed. Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z In the case of the sun, this burn is at the rate of about 4 million tons of gas every second, which is the same energy as seven trillion nuclear explosions, every second. "The Big Bang Theory" and real science, from Leonard's wedding vows to the "Time Machine" prop 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z It was built to withstand nuclear war, a secret bunker to shelter communist Yugoslavia's strongman and his inside circle. Bosnia turns Tito nuclear bunker into art gallery 2010-06-16T13:31:00Z “Zero Days” begins with the true story of a cyberattack against a nuclear power plant in Iran in which uranium-processing centrifuges were programmed to explode. Review: ‘Zero Days’ Examines Cyberwarfare’s Potential Online Apocalypse 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z They never get to drive the Humvee or trigger the portable, easily concealed nuclear weapon. Joe Queenan's Guide to Movie Cliches: Action 2010-10-19T11:00:00Z I also don't believe that countries will voluntarily give up their nuclear arsenals. Glenn Greenwald's reader Q&A: the highlights 2013-01-24T23:07:00Z Now he’s plotting to explode nuclear bombs on U.S. soil. Review | Hillary Clinton’s thriller with Louise Penny is a thinly veiled jab at a Very Stable Genius 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z The mystery is finally solved when the pool is drained, revealing a Russian nuclear submarine, which Russia insists is in international waters. Dave Barry’s Year in Review: Trump and the ‘hideous monstrosity’ that was 2016 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z But scientists are finding more and more uses for it in nuclear energy, television, computers, quantum computing and medical screening equipment. Listen up, Marco Rubio!: Science lessons for the tea party 2012-11-25T19:00:00Z We are, as I write, 13 years and 23 days post Skynet-induced nuclear holocaust. What's the most outrageous prediction for the future? 2010-10-21T11:00:00Z The essay, which eviscerated India’s nuclear policy for placing the lives of millions in danger, wasn’t so much written as breathed out in a stream of fire. The Prescient Anger of Arundhati Roy 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z So they can build a nuclear weapon and drop a bomb on my store? ‘Real Housewives’ in Greece, Israel and Canada 2013-06-06T12:00:01Z Hersey himself said that the profundity of the nuclear attack, and his consequent need to try to convey the reality of it to readers, forced him outside of journalistic conventions. John Hersey, the Writer Who Let “Hiroshima” Speak for Itself 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z An arms race between two superpowers had created monstrous nuclear arsenals and, on multiple occasions, brought the planet precariously close to Armageddon. Goodbye, age of great expectations: We know how America got here, but where does it go now? 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z But no, he didn't challenge his colleague from Tehran to talk about nuclear reactors or the Holocaust. "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps": Gekko's back! 2010-05-14T15:15:00Z The ensemble is like a pleasurable public recreation hall crossed with the melting core of a nuclear reactor, the local Y as Chernobyl. Review: Marius Bercea at Francois Ghebaly Gallery 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z The crossover between western and Indian film-making is like nuclear fusion or a long-unsolved maths problem: a conundrum that could unlock untold riches if anyone cracked it, which no-one ever does. Anurag Kashyap: 'Bollywood is to blame for India's inability to deal with reality' 2013-02-28T19:33:00Z Outside her professional work, she was a supporter of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, and Mordechai Vanunu, the technician imprisoned for 18 years for revealing Israel's secret nuclear programme. Actress Susannah York dies at 72 2011-01-16T15:03:26Z If you wouldn’t mind just knocking it all down again Threatened at one stage of the great Garraway-Draper v Islington council feud, this is the nuclear option. Pools, ponds and 40ft aquariums: planning disputes of the stars 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z The U.S. supports the island government and sends Superman to deal with the Soviet-backed rebels, marking the beginning of another nuclear battle between the two global superpowers. The Suicide Squad's grim portrait of real-life, US-Nazi collaboration 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z Iran’s vice-president for tourism, Masoud Soltanifar, said that “bright days” lie ahead for the country’s tourism industry following the nuclear agreement struck in Vienna. Tourism to Iran set to rise sharply after nuclear deal 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z In the film, C.I.A. veterans and journalists recount a 1974 U.S. operation to recover a Soviet nuclear submarine that had sunk in the Pacific six years earlier. ‘Neither Confirm Nor Deny’ Review: Exhumation at Sea 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Burns’s position as Springfield’s nuclear-power magnate is also crucial for the play, which alludes to offstage nuclear meltdowns. ‘Mr. Burns’ Morphs ‘The Simpsons’ at Woolly Mammoth 2012-06-01T04:30:07Z This book is a wide-angle and quite dire meditation on our nuclear present; Mr. Rosenbaum is convincingly fearful about where humanity stands. Books of The Times: Thinking the Unthinkable Again in a New Nuclear Age 2011-03-01T16:45:09Z I believe that anything is better than Putin because that eliminates the probability of a nuclear war. Garry Kasparov Says We Are Living in Chaos, But Remains an Incorrigible Optimist 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z July 4: Trump’s “greatest fireworks show in the history of the world” concludes with nuclear detonations offshore from Mar-a-Lago. Style Invitational Week 1365: Dead Letters, our obit poem contest 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z The United States seeks more Chinese support in dealing with the nuclear proliferation challenges of Iran and North Korea. U.S. eyes testy China talks, Chen backer expects Chinese decision 2012-04-30T12:08:03Z He’s responsible for millions of dollars of federal funds and for keeping a nuclear waste dump out of Yucca Mountain. ‘I hate palm trees’: The sentimental journey of Harry Reid 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z An early specialist in nuclear imaging, she was in unusually high demand then, driving all over Milwaukee to read scans at various hospitals. ‘Humility Is What Drew Me to Him’ 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z “Nowadays, with all this talk about war, sanctions and nuclear weapons, people tend to forget about ordinary people, the actual people who live in Iran, and they only look at the government.” Lens Blog: Kiana Hayeri's Photos of Young Women in Iran 2012-05-29T15:12:25Z They were inspired by Cornelia Hesse-Honegger, a scientific illustrator whose vivid watercolors document the mutations found in insects in nuclear disaster zones. Textiles Are Part of the Fabric of Milan Design Week 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z Obama set expectations high in a 2009 speech in Prague when he declared it was time to seek "a world without nuclear weapons". Obama vows nuke cuts, warns N. Korea, Iran 2012-03-26T03:10:00Z The Indian Point nuclear reactor is only 20.77 miles away from our house. Motherlode: Leaving (an Adult) Child for the First Time 2011-05-26T19:19:20Z Thousands of tons of radioactive waste are produced in the generation of nuclear power, and “Into Eternity” takes a somewhat guilty view of this activity. | 'Into Eternity': Humans, Who Once Buried Their Treasures, Now Bury Their Dangers 2011-02-01T22:51:58Z President Jack Ryan has a lot on his mind, from an unethical senator trying to bring him down to two hijacked Russian nuclear missiles. Washington Post paperback bestsellers 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Iran denies Western accusations it is seeking to develop a nuclear weapons capability, but major powers are pushing Tehran to become more transparent and cooperative ahead of talks later this month. Iran hangs 'Mossad agent' for scientist killing 2012-05-15T10:45:00Z A credit card dispute is the nuclear option. Travel Troubleshooter | Twice denied boarding by Delta, a couple chases a refund 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z The Jewish state insists that military action against Iran would be warranted to prevent it from reaching nuclear weapons capability, as opposed to when it actually builds a device. Iran to let U.N. nuclear sleuths visit military site 2012-03-06T13:19:00Z Early computers were funded by the Department of Defense, eager to computerize its ICBMs and simulate Soviet-U.S. nuclear scenarios; hence, the first computer games were arguably war games. “Tacoma,” the next video game from “Gone Home” creators, imagines the gig economy in space 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z Once we practiced civil defense drills, sitting in hallways with no windows in hopes of surviving a nuclear bomb. One year after the San Bernadino attack, learning to survive is a routine part of life 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z The widely held belief that the heterosexual nuclear family is best for children has long been used as a smoke screen for homophobia and as a talking point to quash marriage-equality efforts. Gay couples have happier kids 2012-09-04T01:00:00Z Alexievich, 67, is the author of, among other books, “Voices From Chernobyl,” about survivors of the nuclear plant disaster in Ukraine in 1986. Svetlana Alexievich wins Nobel Prize in literature 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Storr feared the atom bomb, and made these drawings as a helpful blueprint for rebuilding Paris in the event of a nuclear attack. Alternative Guide to the Universe – review 2013-06-15T23:05:34Z The U.S. subsequently used Bikini as one of two locations, along with Enewetak to the west of Bikini, to test and develop advancements in nuclear weapons technology during the Cold War. SpongeBob’s Bikini Bottom is based on a real-life test site for nuclear weapon 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z The Archives also is displaying fragments of U.S. and Soviet missiles that were destroyed as a result of the first treaty that eliminated a class of nuclear weapons, Duggan said. Archives shows rarely seen Reagan documents in DC 2011-01-05T19:39:19Z Rarely mentioned in the debate - except by Iran - is that Israel itself is widely believed to possess its own undeclared arsenal of nuclear bombs. Grass dismisses Israeli travel ban 2012-04-11T18:36:07Z Mass casualties, extreme gun violence, explosions, parent and child peril, and the threat of a worldwide nuclear smack-down. Movie Review: In ‘White House Down,’ Channing Tatum Rescues the Nation 2013-06-27T20:33:58Z In 2017, Bénédicte Savoy, a historian who advised Macron on restitution, resigned from the Humboldt Forum’s advisory board in protest, comparing the project to the Chernobyl nuclear accident site. How Germany Changed Its Mind, and Gave the Benin Bronzes Back 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z James Cameron’s follow-up to Terminator 2 hails from an era when nuclear weapons could be casually detonated as a second supporting climax, and less-than-sensitive portrayals of Middle Eastern ethnicity were no barrier to box-office success. The best English-language remakes – ranked! 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z But there were certain causes that we as a musical community united against, and one of them was nuclear power. Linda Ronstadt Has Found Another Voice 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z But this time he learns that Emma, who’s no slouch in the intrigue department, was involved in brokering an American nuclear missile to a United States-hating Arab prince. Books of The Times: Doctor?s Doings in Christopher Reich?s ?Rules of Betrayal? 2010-08-01T21:45:00Z The nuclear industry in this country was killed by bad handling of the Three Mile Island incident. GM Moves Quickly To Put Out Chevy Volt Firestorm 2011-11-28T21:39:40Z In political life he was indomitable, whether handling a currency crisis or the problem of nuclear deterrence. Denis Healey: the artist within 2011-01-05T20:30:01Z It also supplied the plutonium for most of the thousands of American nuclear weapons manufactured since then. In deft, distressing ‘Apocalypse Factory,’ Seattle author details Hanford’s role in the dawn of the nuclear age 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z THE SIMPSONS: To Homer, everything simple is most precious: sandwiches, oxygen, nuclear science . Style Invitational: Tinker with the recipe — slightly change the name of a food 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Sherwin’s well-researched and reasoned analysis of the first 17 years of the nuclear age is a reminder of the crucial need for arms control in the modern world. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z “It’s a weakness in my line of work, hoping that people are telling the truth,” admits Ford, who’s the kind of guy you’d trust with both a 14-year-old girl and a nuclear reactor. The Scene of the Crime: A Jury Box? 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z There are also cards from businesses you don't imagine would be working with a nuclear lab — such as Kodak. A new book tells the story of the Los Alamos National Laboratory -- one business card at a time 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z Being a country openly in possession of nuclear technology is the radioactive jewel in our crown. Is a catchy title really the best means of safeguarding nuclear security? 2010-12-19T00:06:14Z There were plenty of alternatives, not least among them the cold war with its visions of nuclear annihilation. Jon Savage on song: The Zombies ? Butcher's Tale (Western Front 1914) 2011-03-17T09:32:54Z The nation’s capital should be a reality-show casting director’s playground: overwhelming power, operatic personalities, nuclear codes floating around town in a black briefcase. Reality TV? Not Really, the Capital Says 2011-01-21T22:24:29Z The tacky culture of romance, the white weddings, the nuclear families, the dessicated marriages may indeed be the bungled and tasteless form this recognition takes, but what it lacks is not integrity but creativity. The Female Eunuch, 40 years on 2010-11-20T00:06:00Z Just before Christmas, Mr. Trump tweeted that the United States “must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability.” Review: ‘The Big Stick’ Argues for a Robust Military Role Abroad 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z It’s the territory around the Chernobyl nuclear plant, a once buzzing area that was evacuated after human error rendered it uninhabitable. ‘David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet’ Review: Ruin and Regrowth 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z The family hails from Lithuania, where they founded a museum in 2014 called Atomic Bunker — which was actually based in an old nuclear bunker. A Museum for K.G.B. Aficionados? Da! 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z This series about the 1986 Soviet Union nuclear power plant disaster is grim but masterfully executed. The AP names ‘Surviving R. Kelly’ top TV show of 2019 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z I cannot get to grips with the fact that my country elected Donald Trump as the president of the United States and now we have him walking around with the nuclear codes. Ethan Hawke: ‘The most romantic thing I’ve done is have sex’ 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z “It’s sort of like the difference between fission and fusion,” said Brian Crano, the director of “Permission,” pausing a moment to try to remember which nuclear reaction was which. Rebecca Hall and Morgan Spector: Together, Onstage and Off 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z Does anyone really believe that even one new nuclear plant will be built in the next 15 years? The Follies of Fuel Efficiency 2010-05-06T15:00:00Z Instead, after the release of his book, he was invited to talk about the issues with people who were running our nuclear weapons complex. A movie revisits the night a nuclear warhead nearly destroyed Arkansas 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z Shindo appeared at several screenings, emphasising the need to abolish nuclear weapons and to continue educating young people about the devastation they cause. Kaneto Shindo 2012-05-30T16:58:59Z A survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bombing who made opposing nuclear weapons the message of his life, including in a meeting with President Barack Obama in 2016. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z The best way to stay sane is to carve out a meal or two over the course of the weekend for the nuclear unit of family, even if the nuclear unit is one. What to Cook This Week 2016-07-03T04:00:00Z The top officer said on Sunday that a military strike would be premature as it was not clear that Tehran would put its nuclear capabilities to developing a bomb. UN inspectors in Iran for nuclear talks 2012-02-20T10:35:00Z In fact, when Mondale demanded to know whether the Damascus missile was armed with a nuclear warhead, the military initially refused to tell him. The night we almost lost Arkansas — a 1980 nuclear Armageddon that almost was 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z The supposed supremacy of the traditional nuclear family isn’t just a failing tactic in marriage and family debates; it’s a dying convention across the board. Gay couples have happier kids 2012-09-04T01:00:00Z “Oh, this is cool, this is pretty, this is funny — I’m gonna learn about nuclear fission.” Back-to-School Wisdom From the Creators of Your Favorite Children’s Books 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z Rendered in Japanese ink wash, it is a surreal look at nuclear family dynamics. Getting to know the works of Isao Takahata 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z Their contribution is important for its frank discussion of the possibility of a nuclear attack and their presentation of potential courses of action. 3 Books on North Korea and the Threat of Nuclear War 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z “He wants to be a chemical or nuclear engineer.” Motherlode Blog: Was Your Child Born to Take Tests, or Born to Panic? 2013-02-06T18:21:36Z Factor in climate change, nuclear disasters and space colonies, and the ultimate dystopian universe reveals itself — part tech-slick playground, part cautionary tale. It’s the Year 2172: Time to Fight the Bloody Biafran War Again 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z I grew up with a mom and a dad in the city, rather than the suburbs, but what was in many ways a conventional nuclear family. Andrew Solomon: “The conditions I’ve written about have been brutally stigmatized” 2012-11-24T22:00:00Z Indian food expert Nisha Katona, who is about to open her first restaurant in Liverpool, says: "I spend my life in a state of grimace at the nuclear slop they call curry." How Britain is committing crimes against international cuisine 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z Instead, Bangs created a series of slow-motion tableaus featuring a nuclear family getting ready to pose for a group photograph on a leaf-strewn fall day. | A Baroque-Folk Troubadour Takes Flight 2013-12-09T17:07:04Z But mostly Springfield's resident nuclear energy magnate uses his vast wealth to push the little people around and string along his long-suffering manservant Smithers. Six to watch: TV's rich list 2012-05-29T14:42:01Z When President Trump issued his threat to North Korea at the United Nations, many preppers had an almost Pavlovian response: to check their nuclear survival kit. How to Survive the Apocalypse 2017-09-23T04:00:00Z The 88-minute animation opens with the U.S. army attacking an Iranian nuclear reactor, and the U.S. navy in the Gulf hitting strategic locations across the county. Iran defeats U.S. navy in defiant animated film 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z Two weeks after the start of the war, Jacques Baute, the head of the Iraq nuclear inspection teams, visited the US mission to advise, again, that the weapons sites needed protection. How the US let al-Qaida get its hands on an Iraqi weapons factory 2011-01-07T07:59:02Z We spent the other half of the day under our desks, waiting for the Russians to launch nuclear war. Bill Maher and Fran Lebowitz: When Comedy Cuts Deep 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z Their differences were minor: “She doesn’t like nuclear energy; I do like nuclear energy,” he said. Date Lab: When politics came up, the conversation ‘pivoted’ 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z With the ticking of the nuclear clock growing audible, all sorts of displaced hopes and anxieties clung to the film’s ascent. Television: The Persian-ness of ?Shahs of Sunset? on Bravo 2012-03-09T23:39:45Z Yet despite the ubiquity of this language, and the still-present possibility of nuclear warfare, the story of the Manhattan Project is one that is rarely, if ever, widely shared. A Forgotten Town at the Center of the Manhattan Project 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z With the help of some friends, I came up with better ways one might spend that nuclear half-hour, wherever and whenever it may occur. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: What to do with that half-hour before a nuclear missile strikes 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z Iron Man was playing tug of war like his outfit isn’t a nuclear weapon. Who should live? Who should not? ‘Avengers: Endgame’ hot takes and predictions from The Seattle Times’ Marvel geeks 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z Ideally, that shouldn’t happen while watching two stand-up guys — one British, one Russian — perhaps narrowly prevent a nuclear apocalypse. ‘The Courier’ Review: Secrets and Spies 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z Romero’s 1968 cult classic “Night of the Living Dead” — and subsequent films in the series — tackled a barrage of issues including, racism, nuclear war and consumerism. Zack Snyder blends social commentary into ‘Army of The Dead’ 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z An accidentally Wes Anderson world is an amusing idea, partly because his films can outwardly seem somehow removed from life despite their agonies, broken hearts, dashed dreams and nuclear weapons. ‘Asteroid City’ Review: Our Town and Country 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z "You go home, you’re around your nuclear family, sometimes you’re in your childhood bedroom. And then you have those triggers that fire up your old thoughts," she said. Why do adults act like sullen teens when they're home for the holidays? 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z Bolton echoed Global Zero's fear of apocalyptic terrorism but said this merely bolstered the classic nuclear postures. From bomb silo to big screen, an anti-nuclear quest 2011-06-17T06:56:07Z Press argues that if the public is of two minds regarding nuclear arms, it may reflect of the confused rhetoric of the policy elite. America has stopped worrying, loves the bomb 2013-03-19T18:50:00Z But it does efficiently and vigorously enumerate the dangers of nuclear proliferation by governments and rogue entities. Countdown to Zero: Valerie Plame at the End of the World 2010-08-02T16:30:00Z Places like Jefferson County no longer looked like the suburban stereotypes of white nuclear families and cookie-cutter houses. Same-sex suburban couples are changing the equality fight 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z They're accompanied by unintentionally hilarious coffee commercials from the 1950s, newsreels of nuclear tests, the Cuban missile crisis and encounters between American and Soviet leaders. Psycho; Double Take | Film review 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z He lauded the flex performers for their brilliance, likening them to “the first generation of nuclear physicists” but attached more importance to their humility and vulnerability. Street Dancers Tackle a Ballet Project and the Armory Stage 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z If we can outlaw the dum-dum bullet, if we can put tyrants on trial for genocide, we can get serious about a nuclear weapon-free world. Ian McEwan: By the Book 2012-12-06T15:54:37Z He is still in mourning for the death of his wife, whose cancer was caused by radiation poisoning from nuclear testing. Dark Blood - first look review 2012-10-01T12:54:20Z Between every few songs, a woman read some of the day’s Associated Press reports — tax legislation, Iran’s nuclear program, Wikileaks, in Australia — ostensibly to change the context for the songs. Music Review: Folky Strokes, With Dabs of News, Video and Static 2010-12-08T23:03:00Z I was always uneasy about the fact that Enola Gay was a bright, perky pop song about a nuclear holocaust, but it was insanely catchy. How we made: Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark on Enola Gay 2013-01-07T18:55:00Z That all-in-good-fun status quo can no longer stand, not when the stakes for the American people include the gutting of healthcare or the looming possibility of nuclear war. How late-night comedy went from political to politicized 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z Today, making public whatever the United States knows about North Korea’s cyber mischief would not improve the chances for success in the already dicey nuclear diplomacy with Pyongyang. Cyberwarfare — the Latest Technology of Destruction 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z By 1975 the United States had in Europe 6,951 tactical nuclear warheads and 145 nuclear storage sites, according to a declassified memo sent to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Meet the nuke the U.S. keeps in Europe, waiting to not be used 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z He said his concerns are not just about Israel's security but about the proliferation of nuclear weapons more generally.Still, Obama on Iran: 'I don't bluff' 2012-03-02T13:12:00Z Weeks later a young Israeli philosopher named Avner Cohen wrote an article for The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists expressing wonder that the global nuclear debate found no echo in Israel. Books of The Times: Vague, Opaque and Ambiguous: Israel?s Hush-Hush Nuclear Policy 2010-10-13T23:25:00Z Workers and scientists have carved a sprawling laboratory deep below this sleep dairy town that, despite government reassurances, some of Horonobe’s 2,500 residents fear could turn their neighborhood into a nuclear waste storage site. AP News in Brief at 5:58 a.m. EDT 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z Under permanent threat of nuclear attack from the North, schools hold drills for gas attacks, and whole towns are subjected to “blackout drills” at night. Parasite director Bong Joon-ho: 'Korea seems glamorous, but the young are in despair' 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z So in an increasingly affluent and educated Seattle, it’s not completely surprising that nuclear families are on the rise. End of the nuclear family? Not in Seattle 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z No sex goddess is going to swoop in wearing vinyl and make all the nuclear weapons – er, positronic rays – disappear. Why the new Barbarella comic will struggle to match the original film 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z North Korea tested a nuclear bomb in January and may be readying another. Nervous about nukes again? Here’s what you need to know about The Button. (There is no button.) 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z Marcus Chaplin and the crew of the world's most powerful nuclear submarine find themselves under attack and declared enemies of the United States. Thursday TV Picks: The new 'Elementary' on CBS 2012-09-26T19:49:08Z Choosing whether or not to use nuclear weapons, on the Korean Peninsula or anywhere else, would weigh heavily on any president. America has stopped worrying, loves the bomb 2013-03-19T18:50:00Z The cave largely keeps his more indulgently shticky side in check, save for a needlessly obfuscating coda set in a freaky research center where albino crocodiles swim in the runoff from nuclear reactor plants. | 'Cave of Forgotten Dreams': Herzog Finds His Inner Cave Man 2011-04-28T21:43:04Z Part of this has to do with the real limits of knowledge; for all the confident pronouncements and safety guarantees, the awesome power of nuclear energy doesn’t always behave in ways that are predicted. ‘Atoms and Ashes,’ a Frightening Tour of Six Nuclear Accidents 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z The best-known symbol of the world’s first use of nuclear weapons was always Hiroshima. When the cloud parted 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Those words are relevant again today, as Japan’s “nuclear refugees” are streaming into the mountains, and the governments of Libya and Yemen train fire on protesting citizens. ArtsBeat: The Poetry of Catastrophe 2011-03-18T19:09:01Z Considered a voice of African-American activism, Scott-Heron was also a musical critic of apartheid and nuclear power. Gil Scott-Heron, credited with inspiring rap, dies 2011-05-28T06:20:12Z At the president’s disposal right now are about 2,000 nuclear warheads deployed on various “delivery vehicles” around the planet. Nervous about nukes again? Here’s what you need to know about The Button. (There is no button.) 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z “Nukular is macho and athletic/While nuclear is feminine, weak and far too gentle/Nuclear is passive and pathetic” he argued in cheerful speech-song while plucking the bass. 2010-01-15T04:21:00Z This almost unimaginable perspective is demanded by the subject of “Into Eternity,” a Finnish nuclear waste storage site called Onkalo. | 'Into Eternity': Humans, Who Once Buried Their Treasures, Now Bury Their Dangers 2011-02-01T22:51:58Z These bits and bobs highlight “the feeling of daily life,” but their mundane silhouettes are backlit by something more like a nuclear explosion. Jenny Offill’s ‘Weather’ Is Emotional, Planetary and Very Turbulent 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z Sakharov was a Soviet nuclear physicist, and was one of the developers of the Soviet atomic bomb. Eight areligious scientists who changed the world 2012-08-21T13:40:00Z And he said that such military-to-military communications are critical to prevent war between great powers that possess nuclear weapons. Milley defends calls to Chinese at end of Trump presidency 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z It also showed the dismayingly crazed attitudes of a foreign ruler possessing both nuclear ambitions and a lucrative reservoir of the world's oil – a truth which his own subjects would rarely be allowed to see. WikiLeaks: Strained relation, accusation ? and crucial revelations 2011-01-31T20:00:01Z Usually histories of the nuclear project at Los Alamos, N.M., during World War II dwell on tensions between the military officers overseeing the project and the physicists doing the necessary research. Experiencing War Far From the Battlefield 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z It's not the feral animals, the nuclear mutants or the lumbering zombies that will kill us. Review: Humanity abides in 'The Last of Us' 2013-06-13T12:57:08Z He cites an example of comedian Benjamin Crellin who tells a joke about dropping a nuclear bomb on Korea in a computer game. Is there a backlash against rape jokes? 2013-08-20T07:21:24Z When India tested a nuclear weapon in 1998, the rationale was the threat from China. Clash of the titans 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z They weren't as high in the '90s as they were in the '50s, the sort of height of the nuclear family, but they were high. New "OK Boomer" book tries to heal generational rift between Millennials and Boomers 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z Maybe that calamity was climate change, maybe a nuclear disaster; its cause is unclear and, at this point in history, hardly needs to be specified, since the disaster possibilities before us are so richly abundant. In ‘The Council of Animals,’ the Fate of Humanity Comes Down to a Vote 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z This isn't North Korean nuclear proliferation or anything. "Dancing with the Stars" recap: Jennifer Grey finds her groove 2010-11-23T13:30:00Z The military is part of Ayer's DNA — his grandfather served in World War II, and Ayer himself worked on a nuclear submarine after joining the Navy at 18. 'Fury' director David Ayer's rugged style was a hit with Brad Pitt 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z Kevin remarks to us: “I discount his theory, but I value the obsession. And I commend his nerve. Old southern graveyards harbor an unwholesome power comparable to that of nuclear disaster sites.” Catching Up With Denis Johnson’s Star-Crossed Drifters 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z Both nations announced an agreement last month that calls for Pyongyang to freeze its nuclear activities and allow U.N nuclear inspections in exchange for food aid. Nonprofit: North Korea orchestra coming to US 2012-03-21T12:03:09Z When Mr. Simon thought there had been too many “cheap shots” against the nuclear power industry, he issued a directive: “No more three-eyed fish.” Sam Simon, co-creator of ‘The Simpsons,’ dies at 59 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z We had these missiles now on submarines so we could make an exchange to get the Russians to take their nuclear missiles out of Cuba in exchange for our taking them out of Turkey. Mar-a-Lago: Where Donald Trump learned to be king 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z Songs about nuclear war The frisson of impending apocalypse led to another new pop motif. Acceptable in the 80s 2010-07-29T21:00:00Z Candy is the title character, the black sheep of a well-to-do nuclear family who is brought in as a last-choice babysitter when the parents leave town for a medical emergency. The 50 Best Movies on Netflix Right Now 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z He filled the house with art and created a colorful garden that still draws visitors to the stark headland, which is overshadowed by a nuclear power plant. Tilda Swinton backs public appeal to buy Derek Jarman house 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z “Ever since the end of the Cold War, there have been fewer and fewer” U.S. nuclear weapons in Europe, Kristensen says, and many U.S. officials “say we don’t need that stuff there anymore.” Meet the nuke the U.S. keeps in Europe, waiting to not be used 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z In 1964, the funniest moment in American political comedy up to that time could be found in the movie “Dr. Strangelove,” a parody thriller about nuclear war. The Laws of Comedy 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Along the way she discusses the impact of everything from population growth to Norwegian fishing to nuclear power. Facing the Climate Change Crisis, Three Books Offer Some Ambitious Proposals 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z How I’d mumbled through my first question about nuclear testing, and he’d given some rehearsed this or that answer which totally escapes me today. The Buddist I am not: Reflecting on my conversation with the Dalai Lama about the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z The United States recently seemed closer to contemplating the use of nuclear weapons than it had in decades. Bringing ‘Doctor Atomic’ to the Birthplace of the Bomb 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z Season 1 is about a haunted house; Season 8 involves a nuclear apocalypse. Binge Your Way Through 99 Days of Summer 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z Spoilers ahead for both: “The Strain,” after three seasons of presenting the human-vampire war as a somewhat even competition, detonated the story by setting off a nuclear bomb in New York. ‘Preacher’ and ‘The Strain’: Smart Summer Fun 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z I don’t think we’ll be burning fossil fuels with abandon in 200 years – assuming we don’t set ourselves way backward economically by having a nuclear war or some such cataclysm. ArtsBeat: Steve Coll Talks About the Power of Exxon Mobil 2012-05-02T17:31:09Z That may well be true, but I longed for more about the specifics of nuclear physics, which Michael Frayn gave us in Copenhagen. The Physicists – review 2012-06-08T11:37:54Z One evening, I catch a segment on television about nuclear disarmament. Mirror: The Case for Laugh Lines 2011-05-26T22:16:54Z The shimmering cityscape that is the story’s setting is about as subtly lighted as a nuclear explosion, with intense, flamelike blues and reds. 'K Missing Kings,' Part of an Urban Anime Series 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z Their Colomychus Chernobilis rug depicts a fictitious moth found in Ukraine’s Red Forest, whose DNA has mutated through exposure to radiation from the 1986 disaster at the nearby Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Textiles Are Part of the Fabric of Milan Design Week 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z She has formal letters to write to the men and women — mostly men — who hold their nations’ nuclear codes, about subjects close to her heart. Pamela Anderson’s Garden of Eden 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z In the screenplay, the group’s Cold War hysteria about fluoride in drinking water being a Communist plot to poison Americans triggers a nuclear holocaust. Bruce Conner, parsing the nuclear age 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Outside, it’s quiet like nuclear winter, and snowing particles. “Game of Thrones” Season 8, Episode 5 Recap: Hell’s Bells 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z While defending the American decision to use nuclear weapons in Japan, Professor O’Neill was critical of what he characterized as a congressional-military-industrial complex, a concept originally popularized by Eisenhower. William L. O’Neill, a Historian Who Wrote About Radicals, Dies at 80 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z Again, like the nuclear weapons question above: I think technologies are very hard to stop. Glenn Greenwald's reader Q&A: the highlights 2013-01-24T23:07:00Z And they should “insist that the governments of both Iran and Israel allow an international authority free and open inspection of the nuclear potential and capability of both.” Make kids memorize poetry 2012-06-13T02:00:00Z Lives aren’t usually upended by events as extreme as an earthquake and a tsunami and a nuclear catastrophe. 15 Plays and Musicals to Go to in NYC This Weekend 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z But when you're dealing with physics, theoretical nuclear physics -- it's hard for me to say that! -- it's sort of like if your left leg is hurt, you favor your right leg. Emmy contenders: 'Manhattan's' John Benjamin Hickey is no physicist 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z “Svetlana Alexievich’s books deal with historical crises—the Second World War, the Soviet war in Afghanistan, the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, and the collapse of the Soviet Union—through the voices of ordinary individuals.” Sunday Reading: Russian Literature 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z He will hold another mass at Bangkok’s Assumption Cathedral before leaving on Saturday for Japan, where he will visit the nuclear ground zeros of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Pope Francis begins visit to Thailand as faithful jostle for selfies 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z In The Brood and Scanners it was the mind itself, splitting the nuclear family and precipitating a psychic apocalypse. Cosmopolis: Rpattz, from Kstew to Jstew to Dcron 2012-08-16T15:44:46Z It must be noted that the model of family we have today — that is, the so-called nuclear family — would have been unknown in ancient times, when the extended family was the norm. Jesus would back gay marriage 2012-09-16T12:00:00Z Hilariously, he’d rather risk death than betray his nuclear family values by disregarding his idiotic impulses. The kimchi revolution: How Korean-American chefs are changing food culture 2014-04-07T23:00:00Z A 54 to 36 percent majority said they would support airstrikes against Iran if there is proof that Iran is trying to build nuclear weapons. Poll: Global policy a hit at home 2012-05-18T06:05:00Z “He has seen leaders like Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi scale back their nuclear programs only to be overthrown either by the U.S. or their own people and die gruesome deaths,” Oliver said. John Oliver: Trump and North Korea are “Goading each other toward armageddon” 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z Another is using heat created by nuclear fission. Looking Again at the Chernobyl Disaster 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z So none of the three dictators would have found fault with Labour's kitsch vision of a nuclear couple, who have apparently given birth to puppets, staring across iridescent green fields towards a blazing sun. General election 2010: Labour's strange field trip 2010-04-12T16:50:00Z I watched television movies like “The Day After,” well aware that nuclear war was a genuine threat. ‘Scary Stories’ Gave Me Nightmares as a Kid. Thank Goodness. 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z To get more specific, it was a weapon jointly designed by U.S. and Israeli intelligence, meant to infect the supposedly secure computer system at Iran’s nuclear enrichment facility. “Science fiction cyber-war is here”: Alex Gibney on “Zero Days” and Stuxnet, the secret weapon that got away 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z Holly, the only first-person narrator in this edge-of-the-seat narrative, is not one of the five but her account of growing up in a nuclear winter survivors' village is gripping. Fiction for teenagers – reviews 2012-12-09T00:07:40Z Japan's undertook a daunting rebuilding effort after the 1945 atomic attacks on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - the only active deployments of nuclear weapons to date. UN peace messenger Douglas remembers Japan 2011-03-24T16:34:12Z “Testament” is a cautionary tale, partly born of Jane’s activism for nuclear disarmament, but Jane’s other choices clocked a changing world. The lasting testament of Jane Alexander 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z Bayesian methods, McGrayne reports in a series of detailed vignettes, were used in Enigma codebreaking, searches for lost nuclear missiles, insurance, epidemiology, and literary authorship questions. Etcetera: Steven Poole's non-fiction choice ? reviews 2011-08-05T21:55:00Z And yet: “The likelihood of a nuclear catastrophe is greater today than during the Cold War,” Perry said last month in Washington at a dinner with journalists. Nervous about nukes again? Here’s what you need to know about The Button. (There is no button.) 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z He weathered a storm of international condemnation to acquire and develop nuclear devices, one of which his country tested in 2006. North Korea's Kim Jong Il has died 2011-12-19T04:19:00Z This is about the kids, and the challenge of surviving this nuclear winter of a school year. In 2020, back-to-school shopping means frantically searching for other families to ‘bubble up’ with 2020-08-08T04:00:00Z Spank reproduces the sound of a nuclear power plant creaking to a halt: fuses blow, static rattles the amplifiers and the guitars muster a last screech of protest. The Naked and Famous ? review 2011-02-18T19:16:02Z After all, she's played Holocaust victim, nuclear whistleblower, scary magazine editor and mother whose child may or may not have been abducted by a dingo. Meryl Streep playing Margaret Thatcher ? what's not to like? 2011-02-08T20:30:31Z A complicated regional environment, the Kashmir issue, concerns about terrorism and nuclear civil technology both unite and divide the two powers. WikiLeaks cables show warming relationship between India and US 2010-12-16T21:30:23Z As the co-author of one of the first textbooks on game theory, he took a coolly analytical approach to a range of situations that included bluffing in poker and the prospect of nuclear annihilation. ‘The Man From the Future’ Recounts the Life of a Restless Genius 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z “I would think you’d be a little bit concerned about wiping out a civilian population and being the only president to use nuclear weapons.” Oliver Stone Rewrites History — Again 2012-11-25T03:37:22Z Tatyana, a former dancer turned instructor, met Roman 33 years ago, in Riga, Latvia, after both escaping Kiev during the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Want to Feel Like a Russian Ballerina? Start With the Tutu 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z If handing the nuclear codes to Donald Trump terrifies you, do something about it. F**k it, I’m rooting for Donald Trump: It’s what the GOP deserves, and what we all deserve if we don’t mobilize 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z I grew up in a nuclear household: mum, dad, son, daughter. From the grime MC to the model: five men on what masculinity means to them 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z Israel's government, however, as a nuclear power of uncontrolled scope, considers itself powerful on its own and is so far not open for admonitions. Grass dismisses Israeli travel ban 2012-04-11T18:36:07Z Their suffering now had purpose: to fight for the abolition of nuclear arms by grounding the unimaginable in the specifics of their own experience. Susan Southard's 'Nagasaki' faces nuclear horror as the 70th anniversary of the bombing approaches 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z Things that concern the nuclear family more than the civic and national interest.” Steven Spielberg: 'Guantánamo Bay is like when Abraham Lincoln suspended the rights to habeas corpus' 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z And the book doesn’t adequately examine the impact of the nuclear revolution on military strategy. ‘On Grand Strategy’ Review: The War Against Decline and Fall 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z Political thriller Patriot follows a CIA officer trying to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. Amazon's Fall Pilots Feature Projects From Louis C.K. and Shaq 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z Appearing Tuesday on CNN, a spokesman for Putin refused to rule out the use of nuclear weapons, particularly if the Kremlin perceives an “existential threat” to Russia. Meet the nuke the U.S. keeps in Europe, waiting to not be used 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z Later, he recognized the nuclear arms race was a monster that linked, rather than divided, the Cold War rivals Kennedy and Khrushchev. The Man Who Made Presidents Cringe: HBO’s Herblock 2014-01-27T10:45:19Z Seriously, if they were holding a basket of kittens and a fat baby I would've spontaneously combusted from the nuclear cute. "So You Think You Can Dance": Elimination time -- they're dropping like flies at "SYTYCD" 2010-07-16T12:01:00Z Still, when an unstable nuclear armed dictatorship starts throwing around angry protests, it's not entirely to be ignored. Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg like that Kim Jong Un doesn't get the joke “I could call a nuclear submarine right here from this,” the president said. Seinfeld and Obama, Chatting in a Corvette 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z Biden: I had the guys change the nuclear codes to American History questions. Feel the bromance: 9 of the best Biden and Obama memes 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z This type of citizen participation was also realized in South Australia to decide on the disposition of nuclear waste, a topic too toxic for party politics and too divisive for a referendum. Letters to the Editor 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Even after the meltdown at Fukushima, Japan, this place still bears the distinction of being the site of the world’s worst nuclear power plant disaster. Heads Up: Near Chernobyl, Touring a Disaster 2012-05-25T20:11:47Z “If I were prime minister or president and there was no nuclear weapon, I would’ve liked to have piled into Ukraine and made war. Because we are now all Neville Chamberlains — appeasement, appeasement.” Tom Stoppard Finally Looks Into His Shadow 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Filmmaker Oliver Stone on Tuesday praised Brazil's efforts to mediate with Iran on its nuclear program, as he visited the South American nation. Director Stone praises Brazil for Iran mediation 2010-06-02T00:16:00Z “Despite their size, some of these nuclear weapons were more powerful than the one dropped on Hiroshima,” the narration says, and the SEALs were trained to carry them. Networks Salute Veterans Day With Contemporary Shows 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z A Boy and His Dog takes place in the aftermath of nuclear war, as a young man scavenges for food with a dog of contemptible character. The most disturbing talking animals in film – ranked! 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z In one scene, Sankaram plays the role of “Miss Scarlet,” a “helpless maiden who happens to own 400 nuclear weapons stockpile containers — not to mention the chemical gas warfare options.” An Experimental Master Gets His Due Onstage in New York 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z It was June 1981, and Israel had just blown up a nuclear reactor Iraq was building near Baghdad, claiming Iraq was building a bomb. Richard Plepler of HBO Stands Tall in New York’s Cultural Elite 2012-09-21T15:57:49Z In 1949, the Soviets successfully detonated their first atomic bomb, ending the United States’ nuclear monopoly — and arguably stripping Hersey’s “Hiroshima” of its perceived propagandistic menace. Long After the Bomb, Its Story Finds a New Audience 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z Perhaps it’s for this reason that Mr. Obama also does not usually handle his own Twitter account; he has the nuclear codes, but Twitter, that’s just too dangerous. Breaking Up With Twitter 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z After asserting that Israel cannot tolerate a nuclear Iran, he argued vociferously that negotiations with the Palestinians over a two-state solution must continue, and that they must be successful. Pick of the week: One Palestinian village resists 2012-06-01T00:00:00Z And with the passing of decades the Bond villain evolved, embodying, the show suggests, first the fears of the cold war, then of nuclear annihilation, then worries over monopolists, drug moguls, post-Soviet collapse, post-Sept. Exhibition Review: ‘Exquisitely Evil,’ Bond Villains at International Spy Museum 2012-11-15T23:35:07Z Admittedly in her effort to expose the flaws in the nuclear family, she saddles Billy's siblings with too many problems, and the final onset of collective empathy struck me as forced. Tribes ? review 2010-10-21T01:07:00Z She was until May 2016, a diplomat for the State Department in Washington, implementing the Iranian nuclear agreement and working toward peace negotiations in Syria. YJ Fischer, Daniel Schwerin 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z The world unravels, but then at the end of the film, the aliens conveniently catch cold and die, and Cruise’s nuclear family turns out to be still happily intact. What Steven Spielberg's science fiction tells us about America 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z The pilot episode found Rollin Hand disguised as a dictator bent on nuclear destruction. Martin Landau obituary 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z This is a band revitalised on a nuclear scale. Guns N' Roses fail to ignite Reading festival 2010 2010-08-28T15:09:00Z Soviet sleeper agents live with the fear that their political acts could trigger a nuclear war. Six reasons to watch The Americans 2013-06-01T23:05:42Z Whether "Local News" writer Sarah Naftalis intended Nandor's screw-up to function as a goofy allegory for current political events is inconsequential since this week's nuclear political development invites us to notice a few parallels. "What We Do in the Shadows" prepared us for the disbelief that met the latest Jan. 6 indictment 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z The film ends with a zero message to embrace: no country should have nuclear weapons. Countdown to Zero: Valerie Plame at the End of the World 2010-08-02T16:30:00Z If the Taliban took Kabul and controlled Afghanistan, could it link up with the Pakistani Taliban to threaten the command and control of Pakistan's nuclear weapons? 'The Promise': Jonathan Alter's chronicle of Obama's first year in office 2010-06-03T20:07:00Z "The nuclear power Israel is endangering the already fragile world peace," he wrote. Nobel winner Grass: Israel a threat to world peace 2012-04-04T13:41:08Z On March 28, 1979, Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island nuclear power plant experienced a partial meltdown that resulted in the release of dangerous radioactive gases and iodine into the environment. Springsteen's "Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts" has the best live version of "The Promised Land" 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z For more than four decades, the United States and the Soviet Union had been locked in Cold War confrontation that threatened nuclear devastation. 'Destiny and Power' sheds light on George H.W. Bush and the country we've become 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z He has “the energetic look of a Rasputin who took vitamin B12” and buys airline tickets for every day of the week to Rio de Janeiro, just in case nuclear missiles begin to fly. A Patriotic and Paranoid Memoir Stared Nixon’s America in the Eye 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z So he came back to continue a life in nuclear physics and carry out his legacy as a fifth-generation lacquerware artisan. Japan Offers Lessons in Eating, Walking and Bridging the Distance 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z Setting off a nuclear bomb in episode one doesn’t exactly scream viewer-friendly fun. Tired of rewatching Fleabag? Here are 30 TV hidden gems to stream 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z It follows a more limited 2010 tour, all much more than was originally planned for the group, named by Yorke - whose father was a nuclear physicist - after a 1953 speech by President Dwight Eisenhower. Thom Yorke readies tour with Atoms For Peace 2013-05-31T12:27:07Z Combating threats like climate change, nuclear war and A.I. unraveling civilization requires global cooperation, Brown argues; market dynamics won’t prevent the worst from happening. Apocalypse Anxiety, the Musical 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z Remember the episode of The Simpsons in which Homer gets fired from the nuclear plant and becomes an economist? Book Review: Homer Economicus: The Simpsons and Economics by Joshua Hall 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z This is a movie in which St. Paul’s Cathedral houses a nuclear weapon, and product placement overrides any aesthetic. ‘Mortal Engines’ Review: London Becomes a Death Star on Wheels 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z The RSC got him down to writing a single piece about Robert Oppenheimer, often described as the father of the nuclear bomb. Staging Oppenheimer's nuclear story 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z There might be a problem at the nuclear plant, the teacher announces. Review: ‘Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands,’ by Chris Bohjalian Some in that nation are arguing it should develop its own nuclear weapons, just in case the Americans prove unreliable. America has stopped worrying, loves the bomb 2013-03-19T18:50:00Z The militaristic space drama follows a fleet of human survivors of a nuclear holocaust at the hands of the Cylons, a robot race they created and continue to war with. 'Harry Potter' and 'Battlestar Galactica' exhibits land in Seattle 2010-10-22T00:40:00Z The concert halls are about 170 miles from Fukushima, where nuclear reactors were damaged by the earthquake. Possible Safety Risks Put Met Opera Tour to Japan ?in Jeopardy? 2011-03-30T22:22:24Z The light from Laura Zigman’s new novel, “Separation Anxiety,” is generated by a kind of literary nuclear fusion: an intense compression of grief and humor. Review | Laura Zigman’s ‘Separation Anxiety’ tackles middle-aged loneliness with a perfect mix of grief and humor 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z She worried about this once: “My writing has perhaps taken too much of the stain of my anger,” she wrote in “Mother Country,” her 1989 study of nuclear pollution. Marilynne Robinson’s Essays Reflect an Eccentric, Exasperating, Profound and Generous Mind 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z When he wasn’t inventing relativity, he was fighting for nuclear disarmament and speaking out for human rights. You would’ve hated your heroes: Why history’s great men seem so morally deficient 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z Poet and diagnostic nuclear radiologist Amit Majmudar explores this historic event in his debut novel, observing it through the lives of four displaced individuals, each of whom is fleeing to his or her new homeland. 'Partitions': Amit Majmudar's novel of four lives displaced by the dividing of India 2011-06-22T19:06:04Z As President Barack Obama once put it before weighing in during a meeting on nuclear weapons: “Let’s stipulate that this is all insane.” Nuclear Nightmares 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z When Reagan was negotiating nuclear arms agreements with the Soviet Union during his Cold War presidency, he said he'd be guided by an old Russian proverb: "Trust but verify." Deal averts lawsuit that threatened to stall Academy Museum of Motion Pictures 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z Mitt Romney, who rarely strayed from talking points, set the tone for the evening at the outset by describing the continuing rise of a nuclear Iran as Obama's "greatest failing" in foreign policy. GOP rivals debate U.S. foreign relations 2011-11-13T05:59:00Z Obama told Iran time there was still space for a diplomatic solution of its nuclear issue but demanded that Tehran act urgently to show its sincerity amid talk of new negotiations with world powers. Obama vows nuke cuts, warns N. Korea, Iran 2012-03-26T03:10:00Z Although we should be focusing on creating more sustainable initiatives than nuclear energy, even greener energy projects are struggling to meet the supply of our large energy demand. Five strange, terrifying consequences of global warming 2012-08-27T13:24:00Z Entering his orbit means stepping into the white-hot heat of a brutal sun or into a deadly nuclear meltdown. Perspective | Louis Vuitton welcomed Trump to the opening of its new factory. And yes, it was odd. 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z Exactly how real is the Iranian nuclear program? Homeland recap: season six, episode two – The Man in the Basement 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z Yet for all earnest attempts to rebrand the word as something beautiful, for a great many of us, it's the nuclear option of vocabulary. Let’s not normalize the c-word: Why the “worst word” you can call a woman matters 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z In the middle of the night, four days after an earthquake caused the Fukushima nuclear disaster, she died horribly and unexpectedly of an asthma attack. Review: After the Earthquake, a ‘Room’ Haunted by Memories 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z By then, Ms. Hancock’s mother, Maria Berenguer Hancock, was long estranged from her biological father, a nuclear physicist who was last known to be living in Germany. The Long Road to Recovery, and Then the Altar 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z It’s set chiefly in Des Moines in the 1950s, when America was perfect except for the threat of nuclear annihilation, racial oppression, the birth of unbridled consumerism and little Billy’s mother’s cooking. The best audiobooks for your summer drive, sorted by length — and who’s in the car 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z In the movie, a group of tourists ignore warnings and travel to an Ukrainian city that was the former home of workers at Chernobyl, site of a 1986 nuclear accident. "Men in Black" sequel powers past "Avengers" 2012-05-28T17:02:15Z The cleanest source of energy, by a huge margin, is nuclear. Norman Foster Is Still Looking Upward 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z But the nuclear plant’s power lines played havoc with her microphones and she ended up producing a record filled as much with the buzzes of electricity pylons as the chatter of birds. London, as You’ve Never Heard It Before 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z Several interviewees, he added, framed nuclear disaster as a question of when and not if, but the filmmakers left out the more fatalistic pronouncements. Film: Two New Films About the Nuclear Threat 2010-07-18T01:33:00Z Light of my airborne toxic event, fire of my nuclear war. How Hollywood Gets the Publishing Industry Wrong 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z And the only comfort may be in the title of an old Tom Lehrer song about nuclear Armageddon: "We will all go together when we go." Countdown to Zero: Valerie Plame at the End of the World 2010-08-02T16:30:00Z They try to ignore the preamble to nuclear war by concentrating on decorating their flat. Threads: the film that frightened me most 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z Global warming won’t be a problem anymore, what with nuclear winter. Style Invitational: A RIP-roaring year — write an obit poem 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z Treason is a virtue on “Last Resort,” an ABC series beginning later this month that stars Andre Braugher as a Navy commander who takes his nuclear submarine rogue to thwart a government conspiracy. Television Review: ‘Revolution,’ From J. J. Abrams and Eric Kripke, on NBC 2012-09-16T22:07:53Z Nuclear Sub Goes Rogue, Visits Island There is something cheering about a nuclear strike. Television Review: Andre Braugher Commands a Renegade Vessel in ‘Last Resort’ 2012-09-26T22:06:40Z That worst, in this particular case, is destroying the cooling system at a nuclear power plant in Hong Kong, leading to eight dead, 27 wounded and a bad international case of jitters. High-tech 'Blackhat' remains rooted in old-school filmmaking 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Ultimately we decided, as a society, that biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons were so dangerous that they demanded political control and a fairly high degree of transparency. “Science fiction cyber-war is here”: Alex Gibney on “Zero Days” and Stuxnet, the secret weapon that got away 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z Hollywood can imagine anything it wants, but in real life hackers cannot get to the control rooms of nuclear power stations. ‘Blackhat,’ a Cyberthriller Starring Chris Hemsworth 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z As he writes in a program note, “We feel this earlier version constitutes what Brecht was most interested in communicating to an audience of Americans at the dawn of the nuclear age.” Theater Review: F. Murray Abraham in ?Galileo? at Classic Stage Company 2012-02-24T03:00:00Z My parents’ childhoods had been haunted by nightmares of mushroom clouds and nuclear winter, their lives indelibly shaped by the social and political upheavals of the ’60s and ’70s. Steven Levenson: The First Time I Attended a Political Protest 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z The book opens with Ellsberg’s reaction to seeing for the first time the casualty graphs in America’s top-secret nuclear war plan. Is Nuclear War Inevitable? 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z After Saddam Hussein was toppled, Mossad found huge caches of nuclear weapons in bunkers throughout the country. The World Turned Upside Down by Melanie Phillips 2010-06-14T20:59:00Z There was installed a gigantic model of “Progress City”, a town for at least 20,000 people, with lights and moving cars and the glow of a nuclear power station in the distance. Tomorrowland: how Walt Disney’s strange utopia shaped the world of tomorrow 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z The seventh of eight children, he grew up during the upheavals in Europe that led to two world wars, the nuclear arms race and the Cold War. Dark side of sculptor Henry Moore on show in London 2010-02-22T20:22:00Z Variety called it “supremely singular” and “a wickedly funny protest against societal preference for nuclear coupledom that escalates, by its own sly logic, into a love story of profound tenderness and originality.” At Cannes, a Greek Filmmaker Explains Move to English-Language Film 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Stephen Colbert discussed Elon Musk’s suggestions that artificial intelligence could pose a greater threat to humanity than North Korea’s nuclear program. James Corden Says Trump’s Feud With Senator Is Like a Playground Fight 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z Is it time Nevil Shute's On the Beach, set in Australia after a global nuclear holocaust, reached a whole new readership? Open thread: what's your desert island Australian literary classic? 2013-03-05T00:57:00Z On the second day of this year, President Trump tweeted that his “nuclear button” is “much bigger” than Kim Jong Un’s. Perspective | Whose hero’s journey was it anyway? Your 2018 in review 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z It was like a nuclear bomb went off in our family! Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Christmas traditions and what you bring to the table 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z He is a realist; he believes many nations, including Iran, will eventually build nuclear weapons and that mutual deterrence will emerge based on a "balance of horror." Amos Oz makes his words count in Israel 2015-05-09T04:00:00Z “You know you’re old when Rolling Stone gave you a good review,” Dickinson joked after “2 Minutes to Midnight,” with its gleeful sounding melody and lyrics touching on Cold War-era nuclear threats. Review: Iron Maiden treats Tacoma Dome fans to barrage of classics amid flame-throwing Legacy of the Beast tour 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z Acutely aware of these factors, law enforcement around the country had already increased security measures at airports, nuclear plants, train stations and more in the weeks leading up to Sept. NY, D.C. dealing with potential terror threat 2011-09-10T00:13:00Z Films covering subjects as diverse as sake and nuclear power plants will be in competition at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, organizers announced Tuesday. Tribeca Film Festival Announces Competition Films 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z Ukraine shipped its nuclear warheads to Russia and dismantled its silos, often blowing them up or filling them with cement. In Ukraine, a radioactive nuclear ghost town near Chernobyl is a hot destination 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z Still, we know the outcome -- no nuclear holocaust, the fall of the wall seven years later -- which means we can enjoy the good, clean spy-vs.-spy action as well the brilliant period details. TV Picks: 'Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell,' 'Deutschland 83,' 'Game of Thrones' 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z |
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