The cockroach grew tired of the repeated attempts of over emphasis on her struggle – to not only survive a nuclear war, but to deal with the involvement of humans. She wished they would soon all perish. For all they wanted was Professorial delivery without any radiation rescue. So she decided they could tolerate no […] Read more

“We are walking on quicksand,” wrote Woodrow Wilson to a cousin in September 1915. For over a year the president had sought to steer a neutral course during a conflict first known as the Great War, then as World War I. Costing 30 million casualties and 8 million dead, the event was sufficiently cataclysmic for […] Read more

Chapter 5 Frustrating Times August 1915–March 1916 On August 19, 1915, seventy miles off Queenstown, Ireland, at about three in the afternoon, the German submarine U-27 halted the British mule steamer Nicosian. Acting in accordance with the rules of international law, the U-boat was waiting for the Nicosian’s crew to evacuate, when a vessel that […] Read more

The well-established Egyptian chronology gives the date as 1208 B.C. Merneptah’s Stele [Mur-NEP-Tuhz STEE-Luh] is powerful evidence that a people called the Israelites are living in Canaan, in what today includes Israel and Palestine, over 3,000 years ago. The ancient Israelites are best known through familiar stories that chronicle their history: Abraham and Isaac, Moses […] Read more

In the Bahamas islands, the world’s best cave divers plunge into the abyss. They’re exploring underwater caves, littered with mysteries and divers who didn’t get out alive. They face cave-ins, blackouts, panic. They do it for the rush, they do it to be first, and they do it to find ancient bones. These caves are […] Read more

In the Caribbean Sea, 60 miles off the coast of Florida, there is a paradise known as the Bahamas. This is a place full of attractions; they draw millions of tourists each year. But these visitors aren’t here for sun or sand, though they may be in for a bit of a gamble. They’ve come […] Read more

We all worry. Funny how the more secure we get, the more we seem to have at stake. Getting older used to be about getting closer. Closer to freedom. Closer to goals. Closer to life. Now … it’s different. Now, we want it back. That’s where Nu-vile comes in. Nu-vile provides tailor-made transfusions of rich, […] Read more

Nuclear energy is the energy that is produced by a nuclear reaction. It is often called atomic energy, because in a nuclear reaction, the atoms of certain materials are either split (fission) or joined (fusion). This reaction causes the release of great amounts of energy and radiation. This radiation is very powerful and dangerous to […] Read more

More than thirty years of scientific study have confirmed how to safely and permanently dispose of high-level nuclear waste. The used nuclear fuel, in the form of ceramic pellets, would be sealed inside layers of steel; put in carefully engineered structures at least 1,000 feet underground, within dry rock formations that have a long history […] Read more