During the intense nuclear testing programs of the Cold War, the United States conducted an extraordinary series of detonations across Bikini Atoll under Operation Hardtack I. One of the most dramatic ...

In 1971, during the height of the Cold War, the United States carried out one of its most controversial underground nuclear experiments under Project Cannikin on Amchitka Island. The operation was ...

MAJURO, MARSHALL ISLANDS — Lemeyo Abon learned about snow from the movies played on projectors by visiting American sailors. But living on Rongelap — a remote tropical atoll in the central Pacific ...

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This, in effect, means that they can study next-gen nuclear fuels as they circulate in real time. Five different sensors are able to analyze different stats such as the salts' surface tension and ...

Though the country’s nuclear arsenal has undergone no explosive testing for decades, federal experts say it can reliably obliterate targets halfway around the globe. By William J. Broad President ...

VIENNA, Oct 30 (Reuters) - The head of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, or CTBTO, said on Thursday that any explosive nuclear weapon test would be harmful for global ...

At the outset of the Cold War and the dawn of the era of nuclear competition, the United States and the Soviet Union worked quickly to develop large stockpiles of weapons and to demonstrate the power ...