History & Trivia (Moderator: Marlin)

101-year-old atomic bomb worker returns to Oak Ridge, where she helped make hist

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Views: 2,411

Oct 11, 2022, 08:53
by SloGlo

PROBABLY THE SIMPLEST RADIATION DETECTOR YOU ALREADY OWN

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,478

Sep 30, 2022, 10:07
by SloGlo

The world watched as Queen Elizabeth II welcomed the U.K.’s Atomic Age

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,316

Sep 23, 2022, 10:11
by Marlin

Did your computer crash? It might have been a cosmic ray

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,254

Sep 01, 2022, 05:26
by Marlin

]How powerful of a nuclear bomb could we make?

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,460

Aug 22, 2022, 12:06
by Marlin

How has a nuclear weapon never accidentally detonated?

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,432

Aug 14, 2022, 02:18
by Marlin

The Original Target For The Second Nuclear Bomb

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,333

Aug 09, 2022, 04:27
by Marlin

Meet the Only Man to Witness All 3 WWII Atomic Bomb Blasts

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,200

Aug 05, 2022, 03:32
by Marlin

A Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Radioactive Oatmeal Go Down

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,236

Jul 31, 2022, 05:36
by Marlin

How the Olympics put a spotlight on HEU in research reactors

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,608

Feb 11, 2022, 11:19
by Marlin

Taiwan Hunts for Radioactive Apartments

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,555

Jan 20, 2022, 01:22
by Marlin

Why is Jimmy Carter trending on Twitter?

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,470

Dec 17, 2021, 01:36
by Marlin

The history and future of civilian nuclear power afloat

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,469

Dec 10, 2021, 02:11
by Marlin

John Hendrix: The Prophet of Oak Ridge

Started by Marlin

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Views: 3,125

Oct 18, 2021, 09:56
by Marlin

The Blue Peacock: The Chicken-Heated Nuclear Land Mine

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,621

Oct 01, 2021, 01:47
by Marlin

Creatures of the dawn: How radioactivity unlocked deep time

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,674

Sep 30, 2021, 12:02
by Marlin

WE CHOOSE TO NUKE THE MOON

Started by Marlin

Replies: 2
Views: 3,518

Sep 14, 2021, 06:47
by GLW

How Kodak Exposed The Atomic Bomb

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,458

Aug 08, 2021, 01:14
by Marlin

Physicists’ Early Dreams of Nuclear Powered Spaceflight

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,635

Jul 19, 2021, 02:21
by Marlin

Tour the first nuclear reactor to produce electricity using atomic power in Arco

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,620

Jul 15, 2021, 11:15
by Marlin

World’s First Nuclear Bomb Test Created Rare, Otherworldly Crystal

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,475

Jul 13, 2021, 04:37
by Marlin

Inside the Impossible Dream of the Nuclear-Powered 1958 Ford Nucleon

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,508

Jul 06, 2021, 11:46
by Marlin

What is a photon?

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,474

Jun 30, 2021, 02:39
by Marlin

Nuclear clocks could outdo atomic clocks as the most precise timepieces

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,562

Jun 07, 2021, 12:23
by Marlin

5 Incredible Facts About the Atom Bomb

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,396

May 31, 2021, 07:23
by Marlin

Radioactivity May Fuel Life Deep Underground and Inside Other Worlds

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,652

May 25, 2021, 03:12
by Marlin

The Unsung African American Scientists of the Manhattan Project

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,496

May 18, 2021, 12:05
by Marlin

NB-36 CRUSADER: AMERICA’S MASSIVE NUCLEAR-POWERED BOMBER

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 2,927

May 14, 2021, 02:19
by Mounder

Physicists Propose That the Universe Is Filled With Tiny, Natural Atomic Bombs

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,766

Mar 07, 2021, 12:00
by Marlin

Meet Project Orion: The Crazy Plan to Use Nuclear Bombs as Explosive Fuel

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,443

Mar 03, 2021, 11:43
by Marlin

The huge nuclear disaster hidden by the Soviets

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,365

Jan 28, 2021, 02:40
by Marlin

First Man-made Object in Space – A Manhole Cover?

Started by Marlin

Replies: 2
Views: 2,991

Jan 05, 2021, 09:35
by SloGlo

A Nuclear Tank?! In the 1950s, It Almost Happened

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,451

Dec 10, 2020, 10:54
by Marlin

The U.S. Military and Russia Both Tried to Make a Nuclear-Powered Plane

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,438

Nov 24, 2020, 11:58
by Marlin

PROJECT PLUTO: THE CRAZIEST NUCLEAR WEAPON IN HISTORY

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 2,726

Nov 16, 2020, 08:16
by RDTroja

Mass extinction via isotopic analysis

Started by peteshonkwiler

Replies: 1
Views: 2,879

Oct 20, 2020, 09:24
by GLW

The Unsuccessful WWII Plot to Fight the Japanese With Radioactive Foxes

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,629

Oct 01, 2020, 12:01
by Marlin

THE UNITED STATES NAVAL NUCLEAR PROPULSION PROGRAM 2020

Started by Marlin

Replies: 6
Views: 4,646

Sep 17, 2020, 09:33
by Marlin

Russia declassifies footage of 'Tsar Bomba'

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,774

Sep 02, 2020, 10:39
by Marlin

I have Graphite From CP-1 First Nuclear Reactor

Started by warwagon

Replies: 8
Views: 5,131

Aug 28, 2020, 09:47
by peteshonkwiler

Meet the Only Man to Witness All 3 WWII Atomic Bomb Blasts

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,663

Aug 07, 2020, 02:58
by Marlin

The forgotten mine that built the atomic bomb

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,707

Aug 05, 2020, 11:35
by Marlin

AUTOGRAPHED PLACEMAT EVOKES ASTRONAUTS’ 1969 VISIT TO IDAHO

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,476

May 29, 2020, 11:51
by Marlin

Cold War Nuclear Testing May Have Caused Extra Rain Around the World

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,434

May 14, 2020, 11:55
by Marlin

The Only Full Scale Test of a Nuclear Missile Was 57 Years Ago

Started by Marlin

Replies: 3
Views: 3,110

May 11, 2020, 10:56
by peteshonkwiler

Both History and Trivia

Started by mjd

Replies: 0
Views: 2,460

Apr 19, 2020, 10:52
by mjd

Whale sharks: Atomic tests solve age puzzle of world's largest fish

Started by Marlin

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Views: 2,397

Apr 06, 2020, 10:13
by Marlin

Carbon-14 Spiked Worldwide Over 1200 Years Ago, And The Sun Is To Blame

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,452

Apr 03, 2020, 12:38
by Marlin

Image

Started by Marlin

Replies: 2
Views: 2,871

Apr 02, 2020, 10:00
by peteshonkwiler

Thorium. Is it the future of clean energy?

Started by Marlin

Replies: 3
Views: 3,796

Feb 02, 2020, 12:37
by Marlin

Humans Are Worse for Wildlife Than Nuclear Radiation

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 2,643

Jan 21, 2020, 05:59
by SloGlo

Death on Mars

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,380

Jan 21, 2020, 02:17
by Marlin

The Largest Nuclear Test in Outer Space Had Startling Effects on Hawaii

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,361

Jan 14, 2020, 03:15
by Marlin

10 Intriguing Facts About the World's First Nuclear Chain Reaction

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,618

Dec 18, 2019, 04:49
by Marlin

A Brief History of Tiny Nuclear Reactors

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,420

Dec 17, 2019, 01:30
by Marlin

Hiroshima buildings that survived atomic bomb to be demolished

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,343

Dec 16, 2019, 10:07
by Marlin

'Nuclear battlefield' revealed as scientists map Bikini Atoll test craters

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,332

Dec 12, 2019, 02:22
by Marlin

Disappearing dad

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 2,498

Dec 03, 2019, 05:13
by SloGlo

Today in History - December 2 Nuclear Fission

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,419

Dec 02, 2019, 01:45
by Marlin

Top 4 candidates in our solar system for terraforming

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,715

Nov 08, 2019, 04:03
by Marlin

Demon core video

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,966

Oct 06, 2019, 12:00
by Marlin

Nuclear Test in Totskoye in 1954

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,773

Sep 13, 2019, 11:12
by Marlin

50 years ago a nuclear bomb was detonated under the Western Slope

Started by Marlin

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Views: 6,156

Sep 11, 2019, 11:24
by Marlin

Church Rock, America’s Forgotten Nuclear Disaster

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 8,913

Aug 14, 2019, 06:04
by Marlin

Did Chernobyl Create Mutant Animals?

Started by Marlin

Replies: 2
Views: 3,362

Aug 13, 2019, 06:27
by Bonds 25

Startling Facts About the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagaski

Started by Marlin

Replies: 3
Views: 3,513

Aug 08, 2019, 06:57
by RDTroja

High Flux Isotope Reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 5,820

Jul 27, 2019, 10:19
by Marlin

Raising the Kursk

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 8,726

Jul 21, 2019, 10:46
by Marlin

Who was Valery Legasov, the Soviet scientist that saved the world from Chernobyl

Started by Marlin

Replies: 5
Views: 5,611

Jun 06, 2019, 01:14
by GLW

The Moments After Chernobyl Blew

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 3,327

Jun 01, 2019, 11:21
by hamsamich

This E-4's grave is the most dangerous gravesite in the world

Started by Marlin

Replies: 5
Views: 4,282

May 31, 2019, 08:40
by scotoma

391-Year-Old Bonsai Tree Survived Hiroshima Bombings and Keeps Growing

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,721

May 22, 2019, 01:40
by Marlin

Beach Sands Near Hiroshima Are Still Packed With 1945 Nuclear Fallout Debris

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,690

May 14, 2019, 11:15
by Marlin

Tracking the journey of a uranium cube

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,538

May 03, 2019, 10:17
by Marlin

These atomic-powered airships never made it off the drawing board

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,664

Apr 28, 2019, 10:55
by Marlin

A Dark Matter Detector Just Recorded One of The Rarest Events Known to Science

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,611

Apr 27, 2019, 04:27
by Marlin

Why Physicists Tried to Put a Ferret in a Particle Accelerator

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 3,084

Apr 03, 2019, 12:31
by GLW

No Nukes: The Muse Concerts for a Non-Nuclear Future 1979

Started by Marlin

Replies: 4
Views: 3,764

Mar 31, 2019, 02:22
by Bonds 25

Three Mile Island -- Failure Of Science Or Spin?

Started by Marlin

Replies: 3
Views: 3,366

Mar 28, 2019, 11:00
by Bonds 25

We Are East Idaho: Arco

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,595

Mar 25, 2019, 06:39
by Marlin

Declassified: US Nuclear Weapons At Sea

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,705

Mar 21, 2019, 04:46
by Marlin

The Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab....... most deadliest toy ever made..

Started by Marlin

Replies: 2
Views: 3,572

Mar 10, 2019, 04:27
by GLW

That time the US dropped an atomic bomb on a fleet of 95 ships

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 2,945

Mar 07, 2019, 10:39
by Bonds 25

Understanding the accident of Fukushima Daiichi

Started by Marlin

Replies: 2
Views: 3,361

Mar 06, 2019, 12:43
by RRhoads

The U.S. Once Wanted To Use Nuclear Bombs as a Construction Tool

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 3,393

Feb 12, 2019, 08:01
by atomicarcheologist

Project A119

Started by Marlin

Replies: 3
Views: 4,448

Feb 12, 2019, 08:54
by RDTroja

The Cold War's Missing Atom Bombs

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,872

Feb 06, 2019, 01:05
by Marlin

How Scientific Chance and a Little Luck Helped Usher in the Nuclear Age

Started by Marlin

Replies: 4
Views: 4,063

Jan 30, 2019, 12:52
by Chimera

Why There Are No Nuclear Airplanes

Started by Marlin

Pages1 2 All

Replies: 49
Views: 29,333

Jan 28, 2019, 06:43
by GLW

Training EOOW

Started by Wighty44

Replies: 1
Views: 3,995

Dec 26, 2018, 11:27
by NoHorns

The Most Radioactive Places on Earth

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,029

Nov 27, 2018, 06:26
by Marlin

Bizarre Particles Keep Flying Out of Antarctica's Ice

Started by Marlin

Replies: 2
Views: 3,816

Oct 01, 2018, 08:07
by Mounder

When Televisions Were Radioactive

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,659

Sep 24, 2018, 10:42
by Marlin

worst job inna whirled, atomic bomb disarmament

Started by SloGlo

Replies: 3
Views: 3,445

Sep 18, 2018, 02:24
by SloGlo

Do you know how a Navy test range became the world’s premier nuclear lab?

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,560

Sep 14, 2018, 07:24
by Marlin

why dosimeters where in vented

Started by SloGlo

Replies: 1
Views: 2,724

Sep 13, 2018, 09:23
by Chimera

Alvin Weinberg Papers Archive Project

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,592

Aug 23, 2018, 11:33
by Marlin

Last Surviving Crew Member Has 'No Regrets' About Bombing Hiroshima

Started by Marlin

Replies: 2
Views: 3,591

Aug 10, 2018, 05:16
by hamsamich

Hundreds of never-before-seen nuclear blast videos

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,061

Jul 07, 2018, 11:15
by Marlin

Shipyard, Naval Undersea Museum partner to preserve piece of historic submarine

Started by Marlin

Replies: 3
Views: 3,557

Jun 11, 2018, 02:12
by shehane

The Dragon Bites Twice: “Tickling the Tail of the Dragon”

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,195

May 22, 2018, 08:53
by Marlin

Five fascinating facts about DUNE

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,852

May 18, 2018, 10:05
by Marlin

showdown at shoreham

Started by SloGlo

Replies: 2
Views: 3,153

May 18, 2018, 09:21
by scotoma

THE ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING OF THE MANHATTAN PROJECT

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,074

May 17, 2018, 09:56
by Marlin

Air Force Debates Replacing Depleted Uranium Rounds for A-10

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 3,229

May 15, 2018, 10:10
by atomicarcheologist

AN ALTERNATIVE REACTOR

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,074

May 09, 2018, 12:14
by Marlin

First Reactor

Started by Marlin

Replies: 3
Views: 3,900

Apr 29, 2018, 01:03
by TVA

Matter of Risk (Chapter 5 excerpt about Chernobyl)

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 2,685

Apr 25, 2018, 11:59
by Marlin

“Nuclear geyser” may be origin of life

Started by Marlin

Replies: 2
Views: 3,227

Apr 18, 2018, 04:49
by atomicarcheologist

Crisis at Three Mile Island

Started by Marlin

Replies: 19
Views: 9,247

Apr 01, 2018, 01:43
by TVA

10 everyday products that were radioactive

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,449

Feb 14, 2018, 12:05
by Marlin

Nukemap

Started by Marlin

Replies: 6
Views: 6,694

Jan 13, 2018, 11:31
by Rennhack

A witness to atomic history

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,302

Dec 02, 2017, 09:30
by Marlin

Soviet submarine officer who averted nuclear war honoured with prize

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,185

Oct 27, 2017, 12:10
by Marlin

Tsar Bomba: the Bomb Too Big to Use

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 4,003

Aug 17, 2017, 12:34
by Marlin

How to Nuke a Submarine

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,456

Jul 21, 2017, 10:16
by Marlin

Under a fermium sky

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 3,644

Jun 28, 2017, 08:01
by Chimera

How a Refrigerator Led to Einstein’s Pleas for Atomic Bomb Research

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,014

Jun 21, 2017, 10:24
by Marlin

USS TRITON 1ST CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF THE EARTH UNDERWATER

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 3,779

Jun 19, 2017, 06:57
by bsdnuke

Astounding Science Fiction

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,181

Jun 06, 2017, 08:03
by Marlin

How hot is fuel

Started by atomicarcheologist

Replies: 15
Views: 10,640

May 19, 2017, 10:01
by atomicarcheologist

The Mysterious Case of the Radioactive Toothpaste

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,008

May 06, 2017, 05:19
by Marlin

On Anniversary of Three Mile Island Crisis

Started by Marlin

Replies: 8
Views: 6,042

Mar 30, 2017, 10:45
by Marlin

How America Almost Built the Scariest of Weapons: A Nuclear-Powered Tank

Started by Marlin

Pages1 2 All

Replies: 30
Views: 21,972

Jan 05, 2017, 10:56
by Marlin

Nuclear Weapon Blast Radius

Started by Rain Man

Replies: 4
Views: 5,081

Dec 27, 2016, 06:20
by Rain Man

Radiation Hormesis... Let's get controversial!

Started by Tokarev

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Replies: 26
Views: 16,033

Dec 21, 2016, 10:25
by SloGlo

CHERNOBYL, inhabitable in 30 years[?]

Started by Tokarev

Replies: 24
Views: 18,406

Dec 15, 2016, 04:09
by Tokarev

Russia Has a Fatally Wounded Nuclear Submarine

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 4,029

Nov 23, 2016, 07:14
by Marlin

The Disastrous Tale of the First Underwater Nuclear Test in U.S. History

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,496

Nov 22, 2016, 05:47
by Marlin

ReActor House

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 3,343

Oct 28, 2016, 10:56
by SloGlo

Nukeworker magic eye

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 3,431

Oct 12, 2016, 05:19
by Rennhack

Tree-rings reveal secret clocks

Started by Marlin

Replies: 13
Views: 8,856

Aug 18, 2016, 12:33
by Marlin

The Nuclear Canal

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,734

Jun 14, 2016, 09:03
by Marlin

“Too Cheap to Meter”: A History of the Phrase

Started by NukeWorkers News Team

Replies: 1
Views: 4,452

Jun 04, 2016, 05:25
by Rennhack

THE DEMON CORE AND THE STRANGE DEATH OF LOUIS SLOTIN

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 4,101

May 24, 2016, 04:34
by Marlin

Miss Atomic Bomb and the Nuclear Glitz of 1950s Las Vegas

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,516

May 02, 2016, 11:47
by Marlin

Secret Atomic Role of WWII-Era Aircraft Carrier Revealed

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,256

May 02, 2016, 11:35
by Marlin

The Strange Glass Born in Nuclear Explosions

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,660

Apr 19, 2016, 10:33
by Marlin

What It's Like to Actually See an Atomic Explosion

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,437

Apr 18, 2016, 09:54
by Marlin

Atoms For Peace - 1950's Atomic Energy Studies / Educational Documentary

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,941

Apr 06, 2016, 10:33
by Marlin

You (and Almost Everyone You Know) Owe Your Life to This Man.

Started by Marlin

Replies: 6
Views: 8,139

Mar 31, 2016, 12:48
by GLW

Bernie Pad

Started by atomicarcheologist

Replies: 1
Views: 4,833

Mar 03, 2016, 06:16
by SloGlo

hmmmmm,...

Started by GLW

Replies: 9
Views: 9,829

Feb 23, 2016, 08:02
by Marlin

The Workings of an Ancient Nuclear Reactor

Started by Marlin

Replies: 5
Views: 7,256

Feb 14, 2016, 09:43
by GLW

What Ten Radioactive Elements Have the Longest Half-Lives?

Started by Marlin

Replies: 5
Views: 7,633

Jan 18, 2016, 10:51
by SloGlo

Radiation Macabre

Started by Mounder

Replies: 2
Views: 5,279

Nov 30, 2015, 08:29
by Mounder

Banana dose equivalents of radiation

Started by Marlin

Replies: 1
Views: 4,449

Oct 26, 2015, 07:37
by RDTroja

Old Videos

Started by ddickey

Replies: 0
Views: 3,423

Oct 09, 2015, 06:48
by ddickey

Thank you Vasili Arkhipov, the man who stopped nuclear war

Started by Marlin

Replies: 0
Views: 3,701

Aug 14, 2015, 10:35
by Marlin

The Thorium Molten-Salt Reactor: Why Didn't This Happen

Started by Marlin

Replies: 3
Views: 11,571

Apr 08, 2015, 07:22
by thenuttyneutron