The mushroom clouds that reared over the South Australian desert during British nuclear ... Monte Bello Islands of the West Australian coast, as well as hundreds of smaller tests.

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

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

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

Estimated yield: 15 megatons of TNT Location: Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands Date: March 1, 1954 Details: The largest nuclear ... This Soviet test was the largest thermonuclear bomb ever tested ...

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

They honed in on the Marshall Islands, a territory previously held by the Japanese ... Operation Crossroads involved another test as well. During the Baker test on July 25, an atomic bomb was ...

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

One major problem was that the only nuclear bomb available to the UK at the time, the Blue Danube, needed to be stored under climate-controlled conditions. Tests conducted by the UK found that the ...

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 ...

No country except North Korea has detonated a nuclear bomb in a test since the 1990s, and open-air tests were banned by the international community in the 1960s. That's a good thing; the practice was ...

No country except North Korea has detonated a nuclear bomb in a test since the 1990s, and open-air tests were banned by the international community in the 1960s. That's a good thing; the practice ...