The proposal, signed up to by 26 members of the working group, including lead author Dr Jan Zalasiewicz, who also chairs the working group, and Dr Mark Williams of the University of Leicester's Department of Geology, is that the beginning of the Anthropocene could be considered to be drawn at the moment of detonation of the world's first nuclear test: on July 16th 1945. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
Romeo was the second US nuclear detonation of the Castle Series of tests, which were conducted in 1954. (businessinsider.com)
The second is impossible to miss — a nuclear bomb detonation in near - future London — and while the film delivers a dystopian teen romance in the center of its aftermath, an unnerving atmosphere and surprising brutality actually creates tangible jeopardy and tension throughout. (indiewire.com)