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The 1.9-megaton nuclear test Apache went off at Enewetak Atoll in the Pacific, July 8, 1956

At first glance, it’s hard to know what’s happening in this picture. A giant mushroom seems to have sprouted in a factory floor, where ghostly men in...

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Cold War Nuclear Bunker

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If you see a mushroom cloud from an atomic bomb, you’re supposed to stick your arm out and hold your thumb over the cloud. If the cloud is bigger than your thumb, you’re in the radiation zone and should evacuate. THIS IS WHAT VAULT BOY IS DOING IN THE FALLOUT SERIES

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Fukushima exclusion zone looks like a post-apocalyptic wilderness Four years have passed since the devastating Fukushima nuclear leakage accident, yet only 40,000 of the 160,000 people displaced from the 12.5-mile exclusion zone surrounding the nuclear power plant were able to return, as many areas are still considered to be too dangerous to enter. The exclusion zone today looks like a forgotten, ghost town, with tons of contaminated soil lying untouched and hundreds of abandoned vehicles and homes engulfed by an overgrown forest. Polish photographer Arkadiusz Podniesinski’s stunning photo project has captured haunting scenes from the zone, offering an insight into how an area devastated and abandoned by man can be reclaimed by nature.

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April 26th 1986: Chernobyl nuclear disaster

On this day in 1986, a reactor exploded at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine, creating the world’s worst nuclear disaster. Radioactive smoke was let into the atmosphere which spread across the Soviet Union and Europe. Thirty-one members of staff and emergency workers died directly due to the accident, but many others died from diseases - often cancer - resulting from exposure to radiation. Hundreds of thousands of people eventually had to be evacuated and resettled due to contamination of areas of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. The disaster raised questions of the safety of nuclear power and encouraged the Soviet government to become more open. Only two nuclear accidents have been classified as level seven on the International Nuclear Event Scale - Chernobyl and the Fukushima Daiichi disaster of 2011.

“For the first time ever, we have confronted in reality the sinister power of uncontrolled nuclear energy.” - Mikhail Gorbachev

30 years ago today