As the cloud cleared, Air Force bombers dropped in to gather air samples. Researchers hoped that the radioactive fallout ...
LOS ANGELES - Scientists are finding traces of radioactive fallout from atomic bomb testing during the 1950s and 1960s in honey produced in the United States today. According to a study published on ...
America’s last nuclear detonation was nothing special. Smaller than the bomb that killed 73,000 people in Nagasaki, it exploded 1,397 feet below the Nevada desert. It shook the ground, created a ...
The world quietly crossed a historic milestone this week: for the first time since the dawn of the nuclear era, humanity has ...
In 1961, the Soviet Union detonated the largest nuclear weapon ever built, a test so powerful it sent shockwaves around the ...
The Soviet Union built the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated, but just before its test, engineers deliberately reduced ...
Editor’s note: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists presents here, from its September 1946 issue, an eyewitness account of the first atomic bomb test in the Marshall Islands. In it, the author not ...
The history of North Korea's claimed nuclear tests. — -- Ahead of Vice President Mike Pence's trip to neighboring South Korea this weekend, tensions between the United States and North Korea ...