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Excellent question. The present day cancer rates in Hiroshima and Nagasaki are not statistically different than other parts of Japan or other parts of the world for that matter, and there are plenty of things you can do which can give you a larger dose of radiation than living in either of those cities. As an example, airline pilots or radiation oncologists receive much larger doses of radiation, as measured on a yearly basis, than those that live in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, these days. Chernobyl on the other hand is contaminated enough that it is not safe to inhabit and may not be for quite some time. However, it should be noted that Chernobyl is not so radioactive that you cannot under any circumstances live there, it’s just that living there will likely raise your cancer risk to an unacceptable level. Regardless comparing Chernobyl to Hiroshima and Nagasaki is unfair. There are very big differences between the contamination at Chernobyl and at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The factors at play here are numerous but I would like to list a handful of the biggest ones. This is by no means an exhaustive or detailed account of what has gone on at those sites.1. Unlike Chernobyl, the amount of nuclear material used to destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki was relatively small. About 64 and about 7 kg respectively. Chernobyl released thousands of kg of nuclear material into the atmosphere and into the surrounding area, which is one of the biggest reasons why it is uninhabitable to this day, and for the foreseeable future. For Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with the much lower amount of material spread over a larger area (being the explosions were both air bursts) means that the concentration of contamination is lower. Furthermore, the contamination at Chernobyl is comprised of many more different types of particles compared to the contamination at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and many of these particles have very long half-lifes. A half-life determines how long something will remain radioactive. In essence, the contamination at Chernobyl is more, and from a radiation perspective, different when compared to the contamination at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. With a major difference being that the contamination at Chernobyl is more longer lived.For more information on the isotopes and radiation which was released at Chernobyl please see the following link: Chernobyl disaster - Wikipedia2. Over time the nuclear material which was released and spread over Hiroshima and Nagasaki was eventually removed, unbeknownst to the people doing it, through the reconstruction of the city, and from weather. By rebuilding the city, which involves removing destroyed buildings etc, a great deal of contamination was removed. I wouldn't at all be surprised if the dumps where this material was taken to has a radiation level much higher than background readings. Also, over time, rain and melting snow removed contamination from the surface and leeched it into the ground and washed it away into rivers etc until it reached the oceans or other water systems, where it eventually becomes so diluted that it is very hard to measure its presence above background radiation. In fact, severe weather is one of the biggest factors in the decontamination of areas affected by things like chemical or biological weapons. In the case with Chernobyl there was no city scale removal of material, and in a twisted way since there was no full scale nuclear explosion the trees and other vegetation around the city remained alive and eventually absorbed a large amount of radioactive particles, which has made them now radioactive. On thing the Soviet government was supposed to do was cut down large numbers of contaminated trees and bury them in long concrete trenches but last I check that didn’t get complete. Neither was the burial of contaminated machinery but I digress. Regardless, the point is with Chernobyl, even with 30 years of rain and melting snow, there still is a lot of radioactive materials residing there compared to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.3. I'm going to get a bit technical here so bear with me, right after a nuclear explosion (initial blast, heat and radiation flux are over) the ambient radiation level in that area is extremely high. This is due in large part from the highly radioactive, short half-life, radioactive particles created from the fission of either uranium or plutonium. During the nuclear explosion a large number of different fission products are produced. Many of these fission products are highly radioactive (in some cases millions of times more radioactive than the relatively stable Uranium 235 or Plutonium 239) which contributes to this high radiation level. The thing to keep in mind is that for many of these highly radioactive particles their half-life, in some cases, can be measured in minutes and seconds. If you look at the radiation level at a nuclear blast site, over time, the decay is very dramatic. Please see the below plot:In the above plot, you can see how the initial radiation level is very high but over the course of 48 hours the radiation level has decreased by 100 times. This is not to say that the area isn't radioactive but is much less radioactive than before. Over the course of years and decades the ambient radiation level will continue with this decay. Add in the continual removal of radioactive particles through rebuilding and weather, eventually it becomes difficult to distinguish the radiation created from the nuclear explosion from background radiation. For Chernobyl, while the initial radiation released by the reactor explosion was extremely high, it too died down over time but since it released a much larger amount of material and a great deal of that material was comprised of longer lived isotopes, Chernobyl is still unsafe to this day.In sum, when you take into account the relatively small amount of radioactive material, the effects of weather, and the quick decay of the extremely, highly radioactive particles, which are largely responsible for the radiation deaths within the first few weeks of a nuclear explosion, it makes prefect sense that it is safe to live in modern day Hiroshima and Nagasaki when compared to Chernobyl.However, A few other things to keep in mind. At the Nevada test range where the USA conducted about 100 atmospheric nuclear weapons tests, it is "safe" enough to have tours of those areas but they tell people to not eat or drink while in the test area. There is still enough contamination which has not decayed enough or been washed away that it can pose a radiation hazard. Not all areas in the world, if affected by a nuclear explosion, can recover as well as Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Also, the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were relatively "small". Modern day nuclear weapons are much more powerful and contain more nuclear material and will produce a much larger amount of radioactive fallout which will be much more difficult to remove. And don't get me started on the ridiculous idea of having bombs "salted" with materials so that they purposely create highly radioactive long term isotopes. They are effectively super dirty bombs. The rational behind those weapons was to create conditions which could deny the enemy large areas of land for an extended period of time because of the extremely high, enduring, radiation level. Fortunately no one is fielding such weapons, but if such a weapon was used there will likely be no practical way of rehabilitating that area. Finally, in the event of a large nuclear exchange the amount of nuclear material released will be so large, regardless of the factors I mentioned above it, would probably take hundreds if not thousands of years for the land affected by that conflict to be habitable. Lets hope it never comes to that and we only need to look at Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Chernobyl, and Fukushima as test cases for large scale radiation contamination.For further reading:The wiki page on nuclear fallout isn't bad --> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nu...The Federation of American Scientists has published a great deal of excellent materials regarding nuclear weapons, fallout etc ---> http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/To give you a perspective on radiation levels XKCD has an excellent infographic ---> https://xkcd.com/radiation/

12 Facts From the Mueller Report That Donald Trump Doesn't Want You to KnowUpdated on July 19, 2019jeff61bJeff is a computer professional who takes a great interest in politics and tries to always distinguish fact from opinion.Contact AuthorOfficial Portrait of Donald Trump and Robert MuellerThere are a lot of misconceptions about the Mueller Report due to the fact that Donald Trump and his supporters falsely claim that the report clears Trump and his campaign of any wrongdoing. In fact, it does quite the opposite. Much of the information in the Mueller Report is very damning toward Trump and his campaign.Please don’t take my word for any of this. I encourage you to download the full Mueller Report and verify for yourself that everything in this article is accurate using the page numbers I've included.1. Trump believed the Mueller investigation would destroy his presidency.When Attorney General Jeff Sessions told President Trump that a Special Counsel had been appointed, the President slumped back in his chair and said, "Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my Presidency. I'm fucked." Trump also told Sessions that “you were supposed toprotectme.” (Mueller Report, Volume II, Page 78)Trump’s obsessive fear of the investigation was also evident in his public statements for the entire 2 years that the Mueller investigation was going on. In addition to his constant whining about the investigation and repetition of “No collusion, no collusion”, he personally attacked Robert Mueller and the other investigators, falsely claiming they were “Trump haters” and that Mueller had a conflict of interest. Trump’s advisers told him that the alleged “conflicts of interest” by Mueller were meritless. (Volume II, page 4)2. Russian interference in the election was far greater than most of us ever knew.Russia used several different methods to interfere in the 2016 election. Volume I of the Mueller report includes many pages dedicated to discussing the efforts of the Internet Research Agency (IRA), based in St. Petersburg, Russia.The report makes it clear that Russia was firmly committed to getting Trump elected president. An email to Donald Trump Jr. from the son of a Russian real estate developer stated that they wanted to meet with Trump to discuss incriminating information about Hillary Clinton as "part of Russia and its government 's support for Mr. Trump." The president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., responded to the offer by saying “I love it”. This resulted in the June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower in New York City. (Mueller Report, Volume I, page 110)3. Russia engaged in “Information Warfare” to help the Trump campaign.The Mueller Report says that Russia called their social media campaign “Information Warfare”. In addition to purchasing political advertisements on social media, Facebook identified 470 Russian-controlled Facebook accounts that collectively made 80,000 posts between January 2015 and August 2017. Facebook estimated the IRA reached as many as 126 million persons through its Facebook accounts.In January 2018, Twitter announced that it had identified 3,814 Russian-controlled Twitter accounts and notified approximately 1.4 million people Twitter believed may have been in contact with an IRA-controlledaccount. (Volume I, pages 14–15)4. Russia used excessive hacking of private servers to help Trump win.Early in 2016, the Russian intelligence service hacked the emails of Clinton campaign volunteers and employees as well as the DNC. In May 2016 Trump campaign adviser, George Papadopoulos said that the Trump campaign received word from the Russian Government that they could assist the Trump campaign through the release of information damaging to Hillary Clinton. (Volume I, Page 1)"Around the time that the DNC announced in mid-June 2016 the Russian government's role in hacking its network, the GRU (Russian Intelligence) began disseminating stolen materials through the fictitiousonlinepersonas "DCLeaks" and "Guccifer 2.0." The GRU later released additional materials through the organization WikiLeaks." (Mueller Report, Volume I, Page 4)Although Donald Trump claims he knew nothing of the Russian hacking, at a July 2016 news conference, he said, “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.” (Volume I, page 49)5. Russians staged political rallies for Trump in the United States.The Mueller Report states that Russians posed as US grassroots organizers to work with Trump supporters and Trump campaign officials to organize rallies. The investigation could not prove that these Trump campaign officials knew they were working with Russians. (Mueller Report, Executive Summary to Volume I, page 4)6. Russia made direct offers of help to senior members of the Trump campaign.Donald Trump Jr., Paul Manafort and Jared Kushner met in Trump Tower with a Russian lawyer to discuss ways the Russians could help them beat Hillary Clinton.Volume I of the Mueller Report details multiple contacts between Russians and members of the Trump campaign beginning in April 2016 and continuing through the November election. Paul Manafort, Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, George Papadopoulos, Carter Page and others all had multiple contacts with assorted Russians who offered to help with the campaign. Trump’s campaign manager, Paul Manafort, even shared analytical polling data with suspected RussianspyKonstantin Kilimnik that could be used to help Russia target their interference in our election. (Mueller Report, Volume I, page 7)7. Yes, there WAS collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.The Mueller Report makes it explicitly clear that the Trump campaign not only knew about Russian efforts to help Trumpwin, but members of the campaign worked with the Russians. Paul Manafort even gave the Russians analytical polling data that could help them target their interference. (Volume I, page 7)The broadest definition of collusion is “secret cooperation in order to cheat or deceive others”. The cooperation between the Russian government and the Trump campaign certainly meets that definition of collusion, but as the Mueller Report explains, collusion “…is not a specific offense or theory of liability found in the United States Code, nor is it a term of art in federal criminal law”.The actual crime that Mueller was investigating was conspiracy, which is harder to prove. According to Mueller, the cooperation between Russia and the Trump campaign did not meet the definition of a conspiracy because the Trump campaign did not expressly ask Russia for their help. (Volume I, page 180)8. Mueller was prohibited from concluding that the president was guilty.Donald Trump repeatedly claimed that, since the Mueller investigation did not indict him, he is completely innocent of any wrongdoing. In reality, before the investigation began, it was decided that Mueller would not make any conclusion about the president’s guilt or innocence.Volume II of the Mueller report states that the Office of Legal Counsel issued a statement that the Justice Department could not indict or prosecute a sitting president because it would undermine the ability of the president to do his job.Furthermore, it was decided at the beginning of the investigation that they would not make a conclusion as to whether the president committed a crime. However, a president does not have immunity after leaving office and may be prosecuted at that time. This investigation collected evidence so that it could be used after the president leaves office. (Mueller Report, Volume II, Page 1)We considered whether to evaluate the conduct we investigated under the Justice Manual standards governing prosecution and declination decisions, but we determined not to apply an approach that could potentially result in a judgment that the President committed crimes. (Mueller Report, Volume II, Page 2)While others could be indicted and prosecuted, as far as the president is concerned, Mueller could only gather evidence about potential wrongdoing that could be used by Congress or by prosecutors after he leaves office.9. Mueller found plenty of evidence that Trump committed crimes.If you read nothing else, at least read Volume II, pages 1 through 8 of the Mueller Report. Here are the highlights of those 8 pages.Trump directed his aides to conceal emails about the June 9 Trump Tower meeting.Trump edited a press statement about the Trump Tower Russia meeting by removing a reference to an offer of information helpful to the campaign and changing it to read that the meeting was about adoptions of Russian children.Trump repeatedly tried to get Attorney General Jeff Sessions to stop the investigation.Trump expressed the belief that the Attorney General should “protect” him.Trump told Don McGahn to call the Acting Attorney General and get him to fire Mueller. Then, in early 2018, Trump pressured McGahn to deny that Trump ordered him to have the special prosecutor fired.After Michael Flynn began cooperating with the investigation, Trump’s lawyers asked for a “heads up” if Flynn knew of any information that implicates the president. When Flynn’s lawyer declined to do that, Trump’s lawyers told Flynn that reflected “hostility” toward the president. (Volume II, Page 6)While Paul Manafort was on trial, Trump publicly praised him and called him brave man for refusing to “break”.Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, lied to Congress to minimize Trump’s involvement in the Trump Tower Moscow project. Trump’s personal counsel asked Cohen to stay on message and not contradict the president.After the FBI found evidence that Cohen lied, Trump privately messaged him to “stay strong” and not “flip”. Cohen also discussed pardons with the president’s personal counsel.After Cohen began cooperating with the investigation, Trump called him a “rat” and suggested that his family members committed crimes.Based on everything in those 8 pages, there is only one inescapable conclusion: President Trump engaged in multiple acts of obstruction of justice and witness tampering by encouraging people to lie, concealing evidence, firing or attempting to fire people who were investigating him and dangling pardon’s for people who don’t “turn” on him.10. Mueller’s final summary was very damning of Trump.Since Mueller was prohibited from making any conclusion about the president’s guilt, he chose his words very carefully. The following 2 quotes are from Volume II, page 7:“The President's position as the head of the Executive Branch provided him with unique and powerful means of influencing official proceedings, subordinate officers, and potential witnesses-all of which is relevant to a potential obstruction-of-justice analysis.”“Many of the President's acts directed at witnesses, including discouragement of cooperation with the government and suggestions of possible future pardons, took place in public view. That circumstance is unusual, but no principle of law excludes public acts from the reach of the obstruction laws.”Here is Mueller’s final word about Trump and Obstruction of Justice.“If we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state. Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, we are unable to reach that judgment. Accordingly, while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.” (Mueller Report, Volume II, page 8)11. Mueller says it is up to Congress to determine if the President committed a crime.Near the end of the Mueller Report there is a lengthy section about Congress’s responsibility to take action when a president commits a crime like obstruction of justice. It is explicitly clear that this investigation was not allowed to determine the president’s guilt or innocence of any crime and that only Congress can do that. The purpose of the investigation was only to collect the evidence, present it in the report and let Congress decide what to do with that information.“Congress has Article I authority to define generally applicable criminal law and apply it to all persons – including the President.” (Volume II, Page 174)“The final step in the constitutional balancing process is to assess whether the separation of-powers doctrine permits Congress to take action within its constitutional authority notwithstanding the potential impact on Article II functions. In the case of the obstruction-of-justice statutes, our assessment of the weighing of interests leads us to conclude that Congress has the authority to impose the limited restrictions contained in those statutes on the President's official conduct to protect the integrity of important functions of other branches of government.” (Volume II, Page 177)In other words, Congress, the ball is in your court now.12. Oh, and one more thing: Attorney General Barr completely misrepresented the findings of the Mueller Report.Link - Mueller Disagreed With Barr's Summary of the Mueller Report - NBC NewsIf you’re wondering why so many people believe the Mueller Report clears Trump of wrongdoing, it's because, long before anyone else had been allowed to see the report, Attorney General Barr released a 4-page memo that wrongly stated the Mueller Report found no wrongdoing by President Trump. After Barr released his summary of the Mueller Report, Robert Mueller sent him a letter stating that Barr’s 4-page summary was misleading and did not accurately represent the findings of that investigation.As mentioned previously, Donald Trump wanted an Attorney General who would protect him. It looks like he found one in Robert Barr. Instead of being impartial and objective, as his job requires, Barr deliberately and repeatedly tried to spin the Mueller report to favor the president even though the report reveals a lot of illegal and dishonest activities by Trump and his campaign.

OK, Let's first understand how most job portal works, in simple words and how to use it -1. They are just like Social network sites (Facebook or twitter for instance). I mean, when you update your information in your fb profile or upload a picture, it will appear on your friend's input feed. It will appear for quite some time in their feed and then disappears as days pass by, when your post becomes inactive. But, let's say you are commenting/editing/your friends are liking your pic/post, so then it will be appearing on your friend's feed, because your post is still active -- Exactly this is the logic in job portals too. If you are editing your profile in the portal REGULARLY , it will be appearing in recruiters page, as long as you are updating your profile FREQUENTLY.So you have to keep editing your profile, AT LEAST ONCE A DAY. Editing can just be adding a space, changing the spelling or something like that, just to keep the profile active. When you are editing your profile, recruiters see that your profile is really active and will contact you. Profiles not edited for some time would mean that you are not actively looking for job and hence recruiters will not contact you.2. Recruiters always search for profiles with KEY WORDS, and pick profiles which match (contains) these keywords. I mean, let's say, a recruiter is searching for a JAVA developer, with experience in Hibernate, and know-how of SVN, with past Onsite experience. Then keywords a recruiter would use to search a candidate would be - JAVA, Hibernate, SVN, Onsite.Your profile on job portal should contain these keywords, only when your profile will appear on top while a recruiter filters all the available profiles. But, how do you make sure these keywords are in your profile, well, you just have to put all the possible keywords (that will make sense) together in your resume that you might upload on the job portals.For instance, I am a Software Configuration guy, so that basic keywords that a recruiter would be - SCM, Software Configuration Management (this is just a full form of SCM, but I still add it separately, to increase the possibility of matches), DevOps(this is another way of calling a SCM guy, but again I add it in my profile, you already know why ;)), SVN, Continuous Integration (or just CI), Jenkins, Apache ANT, Batch, Windows Servers and ......Keep in mind, mostly, recruiters are not technical people, and are not aware that SCM and Software Configuration Management are one and the same, in the above case, so putting all these combinations of keywords would increase the probability of your resume getting shortlisted.Also, as one of the writer already suggested, Please check your contact details.Hope this helps :)