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Who Would Take the Brunt of an Attack on U.S. Nuclear Missile Silos?
This article is part of “The New Nuclear Age,” a special report on a $1.5-trillion effort to remake the American nuclear arsenal. Last March the U.S. Air Force released a two-volume, 3,000-plus-page report detailing the environmental impact of its plans to replace all 400 “Minuteman” land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) with new “Sentinel” missiles by …
Brunt Ice Shelf: Big iceberg calves near UK Antarctic base
Estimates put it at around 1,270 sq km. Greater London is about 1,500 sq km; the Welsh county of Monmouthshire is roughly 1,300 sq km. That’s big by any measure, although not as large as the monster A68 berg which calved in July 2017 from the Larsen C Ice Shelf on the western side of …
Brunt Ice Shelf Breaking Up With Antarctica This Year?
January 12, 2021. (Click image for high-resolution view.) Two years after the Brunt Ice Shelf seemed poised to produce a berg twice the size of New York City, the ice is still hanging on. But the calving of one, maybe two, large icebergs is inevitable. The question is: when? Ice scientists are watching to see …
2021: Technology platforms will bear the brunt of the free speech debate
2021 will be year when the appeal and scalability of the Atma Nirbhar apps’ ecosystem is tested, especially in the social media space. Synopsis The year 2020 also saw a global debate brewing over platforms and their content moderation practices, specifically around hate speech and the scaling up of misinformation in the wake of the …
Singapore’s coronavirus outbreak is spinning out of control, and migrant workers are bearing the brunt
Shekor arrived in Singapore a decade ago at age 17, one of many low-income migrant workers who have powered the city’s growth, building hospitals, subway lines and the Marina Bay Sands resort. In his years working in aluminum production and on construction sites, the Bangladeshi national has suffered various work-related injuries. The most recent, on …
