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The post Neal Stephenson's <i>Polostan</i> Is a Compact Epic About Communism, Science, and the Dawn of the Atomic Age ...

The world’s first production scale reactor built at the Hanford nuclear site near Richland in Eastern Washington changed the ...

To some extent, the book's sense of scale is a result of the subject matter: Polostan is a story about the dawn of the atomic age. Set largely in the 1930s, it sweeps across the Soviet Union and ...

They’re increasingly worried about their old age and the limited time to convey the firsthand horror they witnessed 79 years ...

For many Japanese survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and their relatives, Friday’s awarding of ...

It was heartening to wake up to the news on Friday that Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese grass-roots movement of atomic bomb ...

One key lesson many states are drawing from the Russia-Ukraine war is that a nuclear-armed Ukraine would have been better off ...

From mad scientists to unintended mutations, nuclear monsters were the darlings of horror in the atomic age. And it makes sense. After all, America was deep in the heart of the Cold War scare ...