Portal:Nuclear technology/Did you know

... that before becoming a successful children's author, Myron Levoy was an engineer doing research on nuclear-powered spaceships for a mission to Mars?
... that music manager Alan Wills learned about management from his father, who was "in charge of the UK's nuclear early warning system"?
... that the British Tychon missile was developed from a Barnes Wallis concept to keep strike aircraft safe while dropping nuclear bombs?
... that the Russian and Belarussian military exercise Zapad 2009 involved nuclear-capable ballistic missiles?
... that the 1991 Andover tornado narrowly avoided hitting two warplanes equipped with nuclear warheads?
... that the Manhattan Project feed materials program used uranium ore from a mine in Canada near the Arctic Circle?