"For 30 years, we were France's guinea pigs," says Hinamoeura Morgant-Cross, a young member of parliament from French Polynesia. This South Pacific archipelago — a French overseas territory that ...

The 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is this week. It was the only time nuclear warheads were used during war. Here’s a look at the history and current U.S. stockpile.

This journal was kept by Leonard P. Schultz during his work for Operation Crossroads, Marshall Islands, 1946. Schultz participated in surveying fauna before and after the atomic bomb tests. The ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES - Scientists are finding traces of radioactive fallout from atomic bomb testing during the 1950s and 1960s in honey produced in the United States today. According to a study published on ...

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 ...

Over 35 attendees came to listen to North Central Texas College History Professor Charles Adams’ lecture on the making of the atomic bomb and its usage Wednesday, the first open-to-the-public lecture ...

Eighty years ago, a weapon was used which would transform modern warfare and the entire world forever. Hiroshima, in Japan, was the target of the first ever nuclear weapon, dropped by the US Air Force ...

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

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. When Robert Oppenheimer, the civilian ...