Why is Hiroshima habitable now when the half life of uranium-235 is 700 million years?

A 700-million-year half-life is exactly why uranium wasn't the main danger in Hiroshima. The real radioactive threat detonated 1,900 feet in the air—and the fireball never touched the ground. A …

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How did the Soviet Union's economy compare to other countries' economies at its peak ...?

By the 1970s, the USSR actually outproduced the US in steel, coal, and oil. Yet its citizens routinely sat on state waitlists for up to a decade just to buy an unreliable car. Between the 1950s …

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