Good news: World records longest ever lull in nuclear tests. Bad news: It’s on shaky ground

The world passed a nuclear milestone this week. And, perhaps surprisingly given the recent run of saber-rattling from the ...
USA Today

80 years later, victims of ‘first atom bomb’ will soon be eligible for reparations

(Corrections & Clarifications: This story previously misstated how far nuclear fallout from the government's atomic tests reached. Fallout from the initial Trinity Test reached 46 of the 48 contiguous ...
El Paso Times

OPINION: Trinity bomb test - risking doomsday they lit the match anyway

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 ...
Not What You Think Official on MSNOpinion

The nuclear test that changed how the world thinks about war

In 1961, the Soviet Union detonated the largest nuclear weapon ever built, a test so powerful it sent shockwaves around the ...
Democracy Now

Trump Orders First U.S. Nuclear Weapons Tests in 33 Years

President Trump says he’s instructed the Pentagon to begin testing nuclear weapons for the first time in over 30 years. Citing China and Russia, Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform, “Because of ...
Dark Footage Official on MSN

Inside the test of America’s “safest” nuclear bomb

Decades after the Cold War ended, U.S. defense planners concluded that deploying massive megaton-yield gravity bombs over Europe was no longer realistic, leaving much of America’s nuclear arsenal ...
Rolling Stone

The Devastating Legacy of Nuclear Weapons Tests

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 ...