Chernobyl radioactive release 400 times Hiroshima Nagasaki

Chernobyl’s release dwarfed two atomic bombings

≈400× more radioactive material

The 1986 Chernobyl disaster released an estimated 400 times more radioactive material than the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. Contamination spread across roughly 100,000 square kilometres, mostly in Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia.

Cretan place-names helped decode Linear B

Michael Ventris noticed that some sign combinations appeared only on tablets from Crete. He thought they might be Cretan place-names, and that clue helped him identify Linear B as a script for writing Greek, against the prevailing view that it was not Greek.

The Moon may be Earth’s collision debris

The leading hypothesis is that a Mars-sized protoplanet called Theia struck the early Earth. Debris thrown into orbit by the impact then formed the Moon.

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Chernobyl radioactive release 400 times Hiroshima Nagasaki

Chernobyl’s release dwarfed two atomic bombings

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