Learn why thousands of soldiers were deliberately exposed to radiation from a nuclear bomb in the Soviet Union, and why other nations did the same. The Totskoye Nuclear Exercise occurred in September ...
TOKYO / ASTANA, August 31 (IPS) - Across the vast steppe of northeastern Kazakhstan, the scars of the Cold War remain visible. At the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site, the Soviet Union conducted 456 ...
The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute estimates China had about 620 nuclear warheads in January, up from about 600 a year earlier. It says China's arsenal is expanding faster than any ...
President Donald Trump's surprise announcement that the United States will "start testing our Nuclear Weapons," has upended more than three decades of restraint in nuclear policy. The declaration has ...
On March 1, 1954, the U.S. detonated the Castle Bravo thermonuclear bomb, causing unexpected fallout. The blast's radioactive debris contaminated Rongelap Atoll, exposing locals to dangerous radiation ...
A new study pinpointed the age of stranded whales and whether they occurred before or after mid-20th century nuclear testing.
For decades, the United States’ nuclear weapons enterprise has wrestled with an institutional paradox. On one hand is the imperative to make the complex more “responsive” to global tumult and ...