In the shadow of a federal government shutdown, the site where the first atomic bomb was tested will not be open to the ...

President Charles de Gaulle described the French atomic bomb as 'green and very clean,' suggesting it was safer or more environmentally friendly than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- the ...

The blinding burst of light from a nuclear detonation follows, yet it quickly fades into an unexpectedly small mushroom cloud ...

Serhii Plokhy’s The Nuclear Age is both a history of nuclear armament and a homily to its dangers. Like almost everything ...

With New Mexico being the birthplace of the atomic bomb, it only makes sense that our state’s national labs are also responsible for monitoring other potential nuclear tests anywhere on the planet.

After discussing the emergence of nuclear physics, Close goes on to talk about the Allies’ development of the nuclear bomb. A ...

Jul. 20—TULAROSA — Mary Riseley walked through glowing rows of luminarias looking for her mother's name at a vigil for New Mexico downwinders Wednesday, 80 years to the day after the first nuclear ...

The U.S. scientists who tested the first atomic bomb, July 16, 1945, took the ultimate gamble of setting the atmosphere on fire and destroying all life on Earth. Even after the renowned physicist Hans ...

Japan's atomic bomb survivors declared that nuclear weapons cannot coexist with humans, as they gathered in Hiroshima to ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Operation Desert Rock was the codename for a series of military tests in the 1950s aimed at understanding the effects of atomic radiation on ...

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 ...

For Liam Tunkin, making music is about continuing his late father's legacy and sharing a dark part of Australia's history.