Researchers at the Brown Institute for Media Innovation and the Princeton Program on Science and Global Security developed a project called Under the Nuclear Cloud. The map visualizes how radioactive ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russia says its scientists created a new nuclear-blast simulator with flash and mushroom-cloud effects to train soldiers Russian ...

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Russian scientists built a new simulator to train soldiers for nuclear explosions, state media says. The simulator is set to be used in military exercises to prepare troops for post-blast missions.