Author: gomez

WikiLeaks has been a disruptive force for the past 20 years, challenging the secrecy of influential institutions with an accuracy that was both feared and admired. WikiLeaks revealed the raw reality of high-level operations by making sensitive military and diplomatic documents public. Its disclosures, especially in the early 2010s, prompted both laudation and censure. One release that had a particularly significant impact was a cockpit video called “Collateral Murder.” This footage from 2007 was made public in April 2010 and showed a U.S.  Apache helicopter attack in Baghdad that killed two Reuters journalists and more than a dozen others. The…

Experts were shocked to learn in 2022 that concentrations of cesium-137 in some areas of Fukushima Prefecture were still up to 122 times higher than those found in Belarus, a nation still dealing with the effects of Chernobyl decades later. Based on field data and peer-reviewed analysis, this comparison brought up important issues regarding long-term radioactive persistence, disaster response, and terrain behavior. Researchers discovered that Fukushima’s distinct topography, which is characterized by steep hillsides and a rainy climate, made it especially vulnerable to radiocesium runoff by concentrating on the cesium deposits themselves. While Belarus benefited from lower precipitation and flatter…