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Puhung Subway Station in North Korea

June 15, 2011 @ 10:41 pm

Photo: Feng Li/Getty Images Interesting fact of the day: Puhung Station, located 100 meters underground in Pyongyang, North Korea, also serves as an atomic fallout shelter.

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Photos of atomic bomb tests

September 15, 2010 @ 1:28 am

The New York Times has posted a wonderful and frightening gallery of images of atomic bomb tests conducted by the United States military from 1945 to 1962. The slideshow of images is set to the voice of 82-year-old George Yoshitake … Continue reading →

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Video of huge underwater atomic bomb blast

January 5, 2010 @ 8:52 pm

SAY WHAAAATTT!! Whales and other sea animals must have gone deaf at that very moment. OMG. [via]

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'Leap second' to be added at the end of this year

December 11, 2008 @ 5:15 pm

Just like in a leap year when an extra day is added to the end of February, a leap second’s purpose is to readjust atomic clocks to the gradual decrease in rotation of the Earth. This year, on December 31, … Continue reading →

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