picks Weird 'artificial' quake was 'clearly' North Korea's fifth nuclear test Xeni Jardin

politics Bolton book says House impeachment inquiry should have probed Trump beyond Ukraine Xeni Jardin

nukes Experience a classic nuclear weapons test up-close in VR Rob Beschizza

trump Trump insists he was trolling with the bleach suggestion, but he may have gotten the idea from a religious cult Thom Dunn

tabloids Unstoppable plague, Doomsday is here, and Cruel Meghan, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

radiation There's a new radiation-eating fungus strand growing at Chernobyl Thom Dunn

happy mutants I reviewed William Gibson's novel "Agency" for today's LA Times Cory Doctorow

boing boing 20 years of blogging at Boing Boing Rob Beschizza

happy mutants Documentation Gathering, Sanitization, and Storage: an excerpt from "A Public Service" Tim Schwartz

Disney Talking about Disney's 1964 Carousel of Progress with Bleeding Cool: our lost animatronic future Cory Doctorow

climate change There's 22 million gallons of nuclear waste under a concrete dome on a Pacific Island, and it's sinking Thom Dunn

radiation First responders are training to deal with the fallout of a nuclear incident Seamus Bellamy

books The events that could kill us all (and how we might prevent them) David Pescovitz

INF treaty Pentagon tests cruise missile with over 500km reach, so INF treaty is now definitely toast Xeni Jardin

security William Barr's terrible, stupid idea to ban working crypto is slightly less terrible and stupid than earlier ideas Cory Doctorow

national security Here's how hackers could hijack America's Wireless Emergency Alert system Xeni Jardin

cold war Cold War Soviet gas masks available on Amazon David Pescovitz

china How China grabbed NSA hacking tools and used them to attack U.S. allies Xeni Jardin

weapons Watch incredible restored footage of the first nuclear bomb detonation David Pescovitz

Popping a balloon in a nuclear power plant's cooling tower Rob Beschizza