Each of the cylindrical tankers has the same explosive force as two million sticks of dynamite, says Wheatfield resident John Cunningham.

“If one of these goes off the rails, you evacuate everybody that isn’t dead, and you let it burn for three to four days. There isn’t enough foam in Western New York to put out one car,” he said during Monday’s Town of Wheatfield board meeting.

With a possible blast radius of one mile, Cunningham said, it’s a deadly threat he’s bringing to the attention of the public and their elected officials.

“I may have seen my first bomb train the other day,” said Wheatfield Town Supervisor [...]

Thermonuclear war. Millions dead. Mutually Assured Destruction. The End of The World As We Know It.

We were astonishingly close during the days of the Cuban Missile Crisis as well as the general era that extended through the cold war of the 60s and 70s and the dissolution of the Soviet Union to a different kind of terror of the 90s and 2000s.

“Dance With the Devil” features images from video and film of the Trinity and Bikini Atoll nuclear tests.

These images were then were heavily processed to “prettify” what the apocalypse might look like at the beginning: a force of nature — a genie [...]