Published on: 2025-06-14 06:06:37
On the desolate steppe of eastern Kazakhstan, the Soviet Union carried out 456 nuclear explosive tests during the Cold War at the Semipalatinsk Test Site, which sprawls over an area approximately the size of Belgium. Of these, the Soviet Union performed 116 tests in the atmosphere, and 340 underground. While some of the nuclear tests at Semipalatinsk involved atomic explosions, other experiments were designed to study the impact of conventional explosives on plutonium and highly enriched uranium
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When Nguyen Phuoc Loc first started dabbling in Chicano culture eight years ago, it was simply because he liked the way that the loose clothing offset his large head. Today, he considers himself Chicano through and through. The 30-year-old Vietnamese barber has never been to the United States. Yet he has filled his life and work with tributes to Mexican American identity and culture. The back of the barbershop he manages features a mural of the Virgen de Guadalupe, a cactus plant and a Mexican
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Editor’s Note: We are dedicated to personal stories in the fight against authoritarianism. And not just about destruction – but also with a view for rebuilding what is destroyed. Would you miss us if we were gone? If so, you need to upgrade now! Upgrade Now! In other coverage, we have an item in our ‘News of the Day’ section that hits close to home to our team. Our mine awareness trainer, call-sign ‘Swampy,’ was killed during a de-mining mission near the frontlines. Scroll down to see our rep
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When the Vietnam War finally ended on April 30, 1975, it left behind a landscape scarred with environmental damage. Vast stretches of coastal mangroves, once housing rich stocks of fish and birds, lay in ruins. Forests that had boasted hundreds of species were reduced to dried-out fragments, overgrown with invasive grasses. The term “ecocide” had been coined in the late 1960s to describe the US military’s use of herbicides like Agent Orange and incendiary weapons like napalm to battle guerrilla
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The US dropped 5 million tons of explosives during the Vietnam War. How many bombs is that? How can you imagine it? Operation Rolling Thunder was meant to be an act of persuasion. The US believed that a drawn-out bombardment would pressure the North to cease its aggression on the South — or, at least, encourage it to ease up. “I saw our bombs as my political resources for negotiating a peace,” President Lyndon Johnson claimed. His framing was belied by the words of Air Force Chief of Staff Gen
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C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Google is working on shifting the production of Pixel phones from Vietnam to India. The move would help the company avoid the higher tariff rate in Vietnam. It also plans to localize key components of the Pixel to India to cut costs. The current tariff situation in the US is forcing companies to find solutions that will minimize the impact on products shipped to the country. This includes the likes of Google and other tech industry giants. In order to
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Scroll through the comments section of any popular YouTube video about Vietnamese history, and you will see admiration and respect from around the world for Vietnam’s anticolonial prowess. ‘I’m Nicaraguan and we went up against US imperialism several times and won. Vietnam was a huge inspiration to the Sandinistas! Long live a free Palestine!’ ‘The Vietnamese struggle for independence is one of the greatest David vs Goliath stories in the history of the world.’ ‘How Vietnam managed to endure Chi
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President Donald Trump’s “90-day pause” on high tariffs for many countries could be good news for Nintendo. The shift marks an opportunity for the company to ship more Switch 2 units from Vietnam to the US. And customs data reported on by Bloomberg suggests the company has already been stockpiling Switch 2 units from Vietnam this year ahead of the console’s June 5th launch date. Before the pause, the Trump administration had placed a 46 percent tariff on Vietnam, where Nintendo manufactures som
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In brief: The Vietnamese government has just approved the construction of the country's first-ever wafer fabrication plant. It's an ambitious project with a total investment of VND 12.8 trillion (~$500 million), and construction is expected to be completed before 2030. But it doesn't end there. The country also aims to become one of the world's leading semiconductor nations between 2040 and 2050. TrendForce reports that the facility will focus on producing specialized chips for high-tech applic
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Viet GD VIET GD is a casual index, archive, and celebration of Vietnamese graphic design. Currently, there are 274 objects in this collection.
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