The Doomsday Clock – a grim reminder that the human race is not immortal

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Called the Doomsday Clock, it hangs on a wall in the University of Chicago. In over 65 years, the time has only changed twenty-one times. Created in 1947, during the dawn of the atomic age, the universally-recognized clock represents the countdown to human extinction. The closer they set the clock to midnight, the closer the…

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Eerie land of Chernobyl – photos of the disaster area 25 years later

Chernobyl disaster area

On April 26, 1986, reactor four in the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant in Ukraine suffered a catastrophic power increase which lead to explosions in its core. This dispersed large quantities of radioactive fuel and core materials into the atmosphere. Unprotected workers near the accident received fatal doses of radiation within minutes. Residents of nearby Prypait began…

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