Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster Atlas Obscuria has published a fascinating story about this picture of an elephant foot of lava — radioactive corium — taken in 1996 at the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site. It takes awhile to get to the selfie explanation, but this is a terrific read....
Being a kid growing up in a nuclear world meamt fear of total thermo-nuclear annihilation. Yesterday, I read a story in the New York Times about a nuclear plant in Ohio with a 30-foot hairline crack in a reactor. All I could think of was, I really wish I could stop worrying about these...
Naomi Kritzer has written a post about nuclear war from the Generation X childhood perspective. On September 26th, 1983, I was ten years old and living in Madison, Wisconsin. As a child, I actively feared nuclear war; it bordered on an anxiety disorder at time, to the point that my parents...
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