Los Angeles Times

Commentary: Atomic veteran’s experience with 31-kiloton nuke is worth recalling as ‘Doomsday Clock’ resets

Ray Calloway is active, articulate and mostly free from the chronic health conditions that can dog aging citizens. Most weeks, the 92-year-old travels from his home near Golden West College to the ...
UPI

In accepting Nobel Peace Prize, atomic bomb survivors urge end to nuclear weapons

Dec. 10 (UPI) --Japan's Nihon Hidankyo on Tuesday accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of Japanese survivors of the two atomic bombs dropped on Japanese cities to end World War II. The group of 30 ...
Telegram

Atomic veterans were sworn to secrecy for years. Now they're getting recognized

In the 1950s and early 1960s, the Pentagon conducted numerous nuclear bomb detonations in the American Southwest and the Pacific Ocean. These tests involved “atomic soldiers” who observed, worked on ...
New Atlas

World's most accurate atomic clock off by 1 second every 30 billion years

Scientists have developed the most precise and accurate atomic clock to date – if you ran it for twice the current age of the universe, it would only be off by one second. This could not only improve ...

Experimental proof of long-suspected atomic decay pathway adds new detail to 'nuclear periodic table'

For the first time, a research team from the University of Cologne has observed the electron capture decay of technetium-98, ...
Physics World

Seeing atoms by brute force: 30 years of atomic force microscopy

Invented 30 years ago, the atomic force microscope has been a major driver of nanotechnology, ranging from atomic-scale imaging to its latest applications in manipulating individual molecules, ...
Hartford Courant

Japan’s Empress Masako says the Nobel for atomic bombing survivors shows the need to push for peace

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Empress Masako said the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, an organization of survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was a key event of this ...