12 h. ago Russian bus passengers ordered to rush to bomb shelters over 'imminent nuclear strike'

A video going viral on Russian social media shows a woman passenger as she heard the warning today on the intercom of bus 191 to Grachevskaya station in the Russian capital

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13 h. ago Moscow bus passengers told to rush to bomb shelters as nuclear warning played

Terrified Russian bus passengers were played a message warning of an imminent nuclear strike by pranksters. The incident in Moscow saw people on a bus ordered to run to a bomb shelter

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17 h. ago Terror in Moscow as NUCLEAR BOMB alerts are played on public transport, sending passengers fleeing for their lives after hackers target warning system

Bus passengers in Moscow were ordered to rush to bomb shelters after nuclear bomb alerts were played out on the city's public transport after hackers targeted Russia's warning systems.

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68 h. ago Radioactive water 'leaked into' loch from Faslane nuclear base

The investigation uncovered SEPA files revealing that the Navy neglected proper maintenance.

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3 d. ago 'It was a light brighter than the sun. Birds fell from the sky and everything shook'

Geoff Sterring, from Stockport, was a captive in a Japanese POW camp when he witnessed the nuclear bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945

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3 d. ago Radioactive water from UK nuclear bomb base leaked into sea, files show

Exclusive: Polluted water was released into loch near Glasgow because Royal Navy failed to maintain 1,500 water pipes, says watchdogRadioactive water from the base that holds the UK’s nuclear bombs was allowed to leak into the sea after old pipes repeatedly burst, official files have revealed.The radioactive material was released into Loch Long, a sea loch near Glasgow in western Scotland, because the Royal Navy failed to properly maintain a network of 1,500 water pipes on the base, a regulator found. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Nagasaki’s twin bells ring in unison for first time in 80 years to mark atomic bombing

Mayor of Japanese city used the anniversary of US bombing to urge the world to stop armed conflicts, warning nuclear war was ‘looming’ over everyoneTwin cathedral bells rang in unison in Nagasaki for the first time in 80 years on Saturday, commemorating the moment the city was destroyed by an American atomic bomb.The two bells rang out at Immaculate Conception cathedral, also called the Urakami cathedral, at 11.02am, the moment the bomb was dropped on 9 August 1945, three days after a nuclear attack on Hiroshima. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago I changed my mind on banning the bomb, but the threat of nuclear war is growing – and so is complacency | Polly Toynbee

Though the weapons I campaigned against remain terrifying, I doubt we can disarm unilaterally. That should be the stuff of vital debate: right now, it isn’t This week marks 80 years since the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as the few remaining witnesses tell of incinerated, melted and obliterated families. Soon there will be none left to remember. Survivors’ graphic accounts of “the noiseless flash” were captured by John Hersey in his book Hiroshima, read by my generation with shock and fear. Nevil Shute’s On the Beach taught us every gut-wrenching detail of the radiation sickness I fully expected to die of. Civil defence leaflets told families how to hide under the stairs with a radio and torch.I grew up expecting early death by nuclear war. My father was a 1957 founder of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament who didn’t expect us to survive inevitable nuclear holocaust. He carried a large bottle of suicide pills, enough to kill us all when the bomb fell, to save us from slowly ...

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5 d. ago Hiroshima nuclear bomb survivors mark 80 years in 'last' milestone for many

The average age of survivors is now 86 and some fear their stories will die with them, while warnings have been issued about the growing support for nuclear weapons

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5 d. ago How Hiroshima nuclear bomb inspired one of the world's most iconic movie franchises

It was a scene depicting horrifying devastation that was so chillingly accurate that nuclear experts praised director James Cameron for 'getting it right'.

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7 d. ago Hiroshima warns against nuclear weapons as it marks 80 years since atomic bomb

City’s mayor urges world leaders to learn lessons of Hiroshima amid global military buildup

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7 d. ago How the ‘Little Boy’ Hiroshima nuclear bomb transformed modern warfare forever

The Hiroshima bomb is the most devastating to have been used in real combat. But today’s nuclear weapons are far, far more powerful

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4 w. ago Royal Navy sailor arrested over bomb hoax 'prank' on nuclear submarine that sent naval base 'into lockdown'

The sailor - believed to be a Petty Officer on HMS Vanguard - reportedly triggered a major emergency response after calling a bomb warning to the 15,900-tonne sub's control room.

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