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...common knowledge, North Korea is just the latest in a long line of nations to develop nucleear technology. Here, the BBC shows exactly who's got the bomb, how many weapons they have, and what their capabilities are of turning the planet into smoldering radioactive ash...
...believe that my mutant superpowers would start manifesting themselves sometime around the age of puberty. Personally I was hoping for either superstretchiness or force bolts of some kind. Puberty arrived in due course, but no superpowers, and I have reluctantly tossed my goal of becoming a superhero on the ash heap of my broken dreams. I do, however, have an archenemy...
...that emergency personnel and supplies were already in place. And the tsunami had given many of them gruesomely practical experience in rapid relief operations. But for all the city's preparedness, Yogyakarta's trauma may not be over. Mount Merapi was disturbed by the quake, and heavy clouds of ash and debris erupted in the hours that followed. But even if Merapi remains silent, the country still sits on one of the most geologically unstable patches of the earth, part of an earthquake-prone area called the Ring of Fire. For Indonesia, natural catastrophe has come to seem...
...that emergency personnel and supplies were already in place. And the tsunami had given many of them gruesomely practical experience in rapid relief operations. But for all the city's preparedness, Yogyakarta's trauma may not be over. Mount Merapi was disturbed by the quake, and heavy clouds of ash and debris erupted in the hours that followed. But even if Merapi remains silent, the country still sits on one of the most geologically unstable patches of the earth, part of an earthquake-prone area called the Ring of Fire. For Indonesia, natural catastrophe has come to seem...
...recent weeks Merapi has been showing its uncharitable side. A series of small eruptions has darkened the sky with hot clouds of gas, raining ash on the fields below, and discharging streams of lava down the mountain. By last Saturday, the dome remained intact, but threatened to blow at any time. "We are still at the highest alert status," says Subandrio, director of the Merapi-observation division of Indonesia's Center of Volcanological Research and Technology in Yogyakarta. "An explosion is still very possible...