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The Doomsday Clock, kept by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, continues to creep closer to midnight. At its start in ...
US soldiers dropped an atomic bomb on an inhabited area for the first time in human history. Their target on August 6, 1945, ...
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A 5,000 Year Old Doomsday Clock

Explore the ancient mechanism some believe was built to track the end of days—and why it's still ticking after 5,000 years.
The late Ray Gallagher of Chicago’s Gage Park neighborhood was an assistant flight engineer on the B-29 that dropped the bomb ...
As Fantastic Four: First Steps heads towards its final act, the group is torn between two impossible choices: sacrifice all ...
The Fantastic Four: First Steps dominated the global box office this past weekend, raking in $218 million. It also officially ...
In 2012, Christopher Nolan finished his Batman trilogy with The Dark Knight Rises. Batman had been a huge hit, but attempts to make something else out of other DC Superheroes weren’t just failures; ...
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80 Years Ago, the World Entered the Atomic Age

The Trinity test—the detonation of the world's first nuclear bomb—was conducted 80 years ago as part of the Manhattan Project.
A teenager who wanted to carry-out a mass shooting at his own school has been locked up for six years. Felix Winter “idolised ...
A SCOTS teenager who wanted to carry out a mass shooting at his school has been jailed for six years. Felix Winter, now 18, “idolised” the killers behind the Columbine High School ...
When the first nuclear bomb test took place 80 years ago, the scientists who gathered to observe the explosion in the New ...
Graff has had a busy 2025. This spring, his 7-part podcast series dropped, “Breaking the Internet.” In it, he explores how a tool that promised to bring people together has instead driven them apart ...