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Activity at New Mexico lab augurs scary chapter of nuclear arms race
2025-04-22 12:45:03| Spiritual Career Counseling
It weighs just 824lbs, but packs enough plutonium to vaporize a city center and kill and maim three million people in the blink of an eye.Scarier still, production of America's new B61-13 gravity bomb is seven months ahead of schedule, as scientists speed up work at their laboratory in the New Mexicodesert.The timeline was moved up due to the 'critical challenge and urgent need' for a new nuclear deterrent. It is 24 times more powerful than the atom bomb that levelled Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945.They speak of an 'urgent need' for the new super-nuke, as everywhere from Russia to China, North Korea and even Britain boost their stockpiles of warheads.Nuclear arms watchers say that, while overall global inventories have fallen since the Cold War, the number of warheads deployed for combat readiness is on the rise once again.For some, this new nuclear arms race is scarier than when America and the Soviet Union built enough nukes to wipe out mankind many times over in the years after World War...
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Alec Baldwin Says SNL's Lorne Michaels Is More in Love With Wife Hilaria
2025-04-22 11:45:03| Spiritual Career Counseling
While reflecting on his friendship with Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels, Alec Baldwin shared a surprising fact about his relationship with Hilaria Baldwin.During the Sunday, April 13, episode of The Baldwins, Alec, 67, reflected on his connection with Michaels, 80, saying, Lorne is in love with my wife more than we are friends. He loves my wife and he is so kind to my family. We love him and spend Thanksgiving with them. He continued: It is safe to say he is such a good friend and he has been so kind to me. He has embraced me in my work and put me on that show.Hilaria, 41, joined in to say they love Michaels wife, Alice Barry. She also highlighted Alecs love for Saturday Night Live. Related: Stars Who Reacted to Being Parodied on Saturday Night LiveI see it when you are with other actors or you are with your friends at SNL. It lights up and you are so happy, she explained. You thrive off sharing energy with people. You love connection with people.Hilaria elabor...
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American Farmers and the USDA Had Finally Embraced Their Role in the Climate Crisis. Then Came the Federal Funding Freeze - Inside Climate News
2025-04-22 11:45:03| Spiritual Career Counseling
For two decades, farmer John Burk has been working to improve the soil on his farm in Michigan, taking a few extra steps to make it more resilient and productive. His efforts have paid off.When we have the dry, hot summers or lack of rainfall, our crops can sustain the dry spells better. We dont have huge yield decreases, Burk said. And when it rains and we have the freak storms, like it seems to do so much now, we dont have the ponding and all the runoff.An added bonus: He needs less fertilizer, a major operating expense.But Burk, and tens of thousands of farmers across the country like him, have learned that the Trump administration now considers these stepswhich include limiting tillage, planting soil-enriching cover crops or installing water chutes to control erosionfar left climate activities. The administration has frozen billions of dollars in funding that pay for these activities while the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and White House conduct ongoing reviews.W...
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