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Study Finds Cold War Nuke Testing Changed Rainfall

Nuclear bomb tests during the Cold War may have changed rainfall patterns thousands of miles from the detonation sites, new research has revealed. Scientists at the University of Reading have researched how the electric charge released by radiation from the test detonations, carried out predominantly by the U.S. and Soviet Union in the 1950s and ...

Troy Oakes

A nuclear bomb exploding.

Over a Million People in Beijing Live Below the City

More than 1 million people in the Chinese capital of Beijing today live in an underground city. This was built as a bomb shelter during the Cold War era. At that time, the Chinese government was worried that Russians might start dropping bombs. As a consequence, Beijing built several underground shelters as a last resort ...

Max Lu

Derinkuyu underground city.

Leaked Report Discloses China’s Preparations to Fight a New Cold War

A New Cold War is brewing in China. Recently, the Chinese blogtalk “Voice of Hope” revealed the contents of an internal document produced by the Development and Research Center of the Shenzhen Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China. The report is authored by Wu Sikang, the director of the Development and Research Center, ...

Nspirement Staff