Radioactive powder began falling on Rongelap Atoll several hours after the United States detonated the Castle Bravo nuclear ...

Not every Cold War nuclear test went according to plan. Some produced explosions far larger than expected, spread radioactive ...

VIENNA (Reuters) - Two months after what is widely believed to have been a nuclear test by North Korea, the radioactive particles to prove it have yet to be detected, suggesting the communist state is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nearly 81 years ago, the first nuclear bomb exploded. The Trinity test, conducted as part of the Manhattan Project in the New ...

Prior to 1945, nuclear weapons were just an idea that could be discussed in theoretical physics literature. This changed when J.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The only well-exposed color image of the Trinity test. (Jack W. Aeby/Manhattan Project/Public Domain) We don't always get to ...

More than 50 years after Operation Smiling Buddha, the lesson remains embedded in international nuclear policy: in the ...

The veterans are campaigning for full disclosure of the impact of the UK's nuclear testing programme.

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