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Hurricane Rita, in full force.
science

Why We Can't Stop Hurricanes and All the Ways We've Tried

The strange, true history of human beings bringing the fight to tropical storms.
Eric Grundhauser September 13, 2017
Warning signs at the entrance of the Woomera test facility.
Woomera, Australia

Woomera Range Complex

Bomb tests and sheep ranchers share the world's largest military land base.
Aerial view of the Soviet summer camp.
Bluemont, Virginia

Soviet Embassy's 'Summer Camp' House

Conveniently located within binocular range of a nuclear bunker, the "summer camp" area was a painfully obvious spy house.
Nuclear Power? No Thanks.
Aarhus, Denmark

Smiling Sun Mural

A symbol for the opposition to nuclear power around the world.
Museum exhibition and a clock that stopped when the bomb dropped.
Nagasaki, Japan

Atomic Bomb Medical Museum

A sobering scientific reminder of the human damage caused by the advent of the nuclear age.
TEPCO workers overlook the Fukushima site in 2013.
nuclear

A WWII Bomb Has Been Found at the Fukushima Nuclear Site

As if they didn't have enough to worry about.
Eric Grundhauser August 10, 2017
Nye County, Nevada

Atomic Bank Vault

The contents of this safe survived a 37-kiloton nuclear bomb.
A tiny piece of trinitite, close up.
geology

The Long, Weird Half-Life of Trinitite

The synthetic material—forged in the blast of the first nuclear bomb test—has been buried, sold, collected, displayed, and even made into jewelry.
Cara Giaimo June 30, 2017
A 1961 "Atomic Garden" showing tomatoes that have been atomically energized.
science

Growing Mutant Peanuts With the Radioactive Gardening Society

In the 1960s, some experimental horticulturalists went nuclear.
Natalie Zarrelli June 8, 2017
A highway sign foretells the decay of the Hanford Site.
radioactive

What It Took to Demolish the Most Infamous Room at the Hanford Nuclear Site

After 40 years, the spot where Harold R. McCluskey became the "Atomic Man" has finally been torn down.
Eric Grundhauser May 23, 2017
Grove Park Inn
Asheville, North Carolina

The Grove Park Inn

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.
Permanently Closed
The original hot dog stand, shuttered in 2006
Arlington, Virginia

Pentagon Hot Dog Stand

Rumor has it the hot dog stand was targeted by two Russian nuclear missiles.
Raw thorium. Good for your teeth or fuel for Hitler's bombs?
nuclear

The Mysterious Case of the Radioactive Toothpaste

Manhattan Project experts got sidetracked in their pursuit of Nazi nuclear technology.
Eric Grundhauser May 5, 2017
A warning sign at the site.
Parachute, Colorado

Rulison Nuclear Test Site

The site where a nuclear bomb was lowered over 8,000 feet underground and detonated as an experiment in natural gas extraction.
Prypiat, Ukraine

Abandoned Avanhard Stadium of Prypiat

One of the most poignant ruins of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster, the local football team's stadium has been quickly reclaimed by nature.
nuclear

North Korea's Nuclear Test Site Spent the Weekend Hosting Volleyball

Satellites spotted some unexpected heat.
Cara Giaimo April 20, 2017
The melted core, from the side.
science

The Behind-the-Scenes Story of an Unplanned Meltdown at America’s First Nuclear Power Reactor

Ray Haroldsen didn't really notice anything was wrong.
Sarah Laskow April 11, 2017
It has been used in hundreds of experiments since 1971.
Athens, Ohio

John E. Edwards Particle Accelerator

A rare particle accelerator with a tremendous energy range is tucked away at Ohio University.