Gabon’s Ancient Nuclear Reactor
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 19, 2019
The nuclear age might have begun in America, but it was in Gabon where the world’s first fission reaction started. Gabon is one of the rich...
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Project A119: The Secret Plan to Nuke The Moon
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 2, 2019
Long before the United States President John F. Kennedy delivered the inspiring "We choose to go to the Moon" speech in front of a...
The Japanese Fishing Boat Whose Lethal Encounter With An Atomic Bomb Inspired Godzilla
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 24, 2019
Tucked away in a corner of Yumenoshima Park in Tokyo, a ten-minute-walk away from Shin Kiba Station, is a tall A-frame building. Sitting in...
Kyshtym: The Nuclear Disaster That Was Kept Secret For 30 Years
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 4, 2019
Thirty years before the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl exploded, in what became one of the most devastating nuclear accidents in history, ther...
Shin's Tricycle
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 13, 2019
Behind a glass case at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum is a battered and rusted tricycle. The seat is missing, and so are the pedals an...
Demon Core: How The Third Nuclear Bomb Destined For Japan Killed a Bunch of American Scientists
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 14, 2018
President Harry S. Truman knew that one bomb would not be enough to force Japan to surrender, so he ordered two. What many don’t know is tha...
How The Soviets Put Out Oil Well Fires by Using Nuclear Bombs
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 14, 2018
In the early 1960s, the two nuclear superpowers of the world—the United States of America and the Soviet Union—began looking for ways to uti...
London’s Secret Nuclear Reactor
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 30, 2018
For more than 30 years, between 1962 and 1996, a nuclear reactor sat at the heart of London tantalizingly close to a busy thoroughfare and t...
Bullfrog County: How an Empty County Tried to Prevent Nevada From Becoming The Nation’s Nuclear Waste Dump
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 2, 2018
Deep in southern Nevada’s Nye County, in the harsh, sun-drenched desert, there was once a small county named Bullfrog. It was one of the mos...
World’s First Nuclear Power Plant
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 9, 2017
Spread over nearly 900 square miles in the high desert of eastern Idaho, lies the vast campus of the Idaho National Laboratory. Much of the ...
How The Atomic Tests Looked Like From Los Angeles
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 9, 2016
Between 1951 and 1992, the United States conducted 928 atomic tests at the Nevada Test Site about 65 miles (105 km) northwest of the city of...
Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 9, 2016
The Soviet Union’s nuclear program started soon after the end of the Second World War. Tests were conducted in many remote regions such as t...
Site A / Plot M: The Buried Remains of The World’s First Nuclear Reactor
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 18, 2016
Located within the Palos Forest Preserve, approximately 20 miles southwest of downtown Chicago, in an area named the Red Gate Woods, are two...
Sedan Nuclear Crater
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 24, 2014
The Sedan nuclear crater is located at the Nevada Test Site, about 90 miles north of Las Vegas. It is the result of the Sedan nuclear test, ...
Trinity Site, the Site of the First Atomic Bomb Blast
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 16, 2014
On July 16, 1945, the world’s first nuclear explosion, code named Trinity, occurred at a test site located 336 km south of Los Alamos on the...
Lake Chagan, The Atomic Lake Filled With Radioactive Water
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 22, 2014
During the hey days of Cold War, the Soviet started blowing up nukes all over northeastern Kazakhstan to investigate the possibility of usin...
A Pile of Nuclear Waste Now a Tourist Attraction in Weldon Springs, Missouri
Kaushik Patowary
May 28, 2013
In Saint Charles County, Missouri, near Weldon Spring, adjacent to Highway 40, lies an enormous mound of rocks, rising out of the ground lik...
Hibaku Jumoku: The A-Bombed Trees That Survived Hiroshima
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 15, 2013
After the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on 6th August 1945, with landscapes demolished, soils charred and radiation rampant, Dr. Harold Jacobs...
Runit Dome: The Radioactive Trash Can on Enewetak Atoll
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 13, 2013
Since World War II, the United States has conducted over 1,000 nuclear tests mostly at Nevada Test Site and the Pacific Proving Grounds in ...
Wunderland Kalkar: Nuclear Power Plant Turned Amusement Park
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 2, 2011
In Kalkar in 1972, construction was started on the SNR-300, the first fast breeder nuclear reactor in Germany. The reactor was designed to u...
