By Shanna Hanbury The Marshall Islands government has announced it will protect an area of the Pacific Ocean described as one ...

Today we present the first half of a two-part radio documentary from our friends at SF Public Press, “Exposed,” opening a ...

Washington shifts towards India; Church Committee established into CIA, FBI crimes; Truman backs development of H-bomb; ...

The waters around two remote atolls in the central Pacific Ocean—spanning 18,500 square miles—are now protected from fishing ...

SYDNEY, Australia — The Marshall Islands declared on Tuesday its first national marine sanctuary, which protects a "pristine" expanse of the Pacific Ocean that is home to deep-sea sharks and green ...

On this day 74 years ago, nuclear testing kicked off at the Nevada Test Site, just 65 miles north of Las Vegas.

WASHINGTON — A program to compensate uranium miners and people who lived downwind of nuclear bomb testing then developed certain cancers came to an end last summer, but Sens. Ben Ray Luján and ...

A thousand feet beneath the desert, the United States conducts experiments to verify that its weapons work. But some fear a ...

Think of a nuclear weapons test and you might visualize a mushroom cloud over the desert. DETROW: But for the past 30 years, the U.S. has been running its tests using computers. NPR's Geoff ...

The next steps in the fatal midair plane and helicopter crash investigation. And, why nuclear testing could ramp up in the U.S., as well as a look inside the secret lab where weapons testing happens.

The Marshall Islands are located in the west-central ... and they collected water samples for genetic testing. “Bikar and Bokak were, if not the most pristine, some of the most pristine waters ...