In 1946, the United States began testing nuclear weapons in the Marshall Islands, a tiny country in the Northwest Pacific.

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In less than a millionth of a second after a nuclear detonation or a severe nuclear reactor accident, an enormous burst of energy heats the surrounding air and materials. Everything in the vicinity is ...

Utah writer and activist Mary Dickson has spent decades exploring the consequences and legacy of U.S. nuclear testing in the American southwest, and the “downwinders” who suffered as a result. Yet ...

A nuclear war is often imagined as a map of colors: red zones where survival seems impossible, orange zones where danger is extreme, yellow zones where life might continue under pressure, and green ...

“We can replace assumptions with measurements, improve the models used to interpret nuclear debris, and support decision-making when it matters most.” Reading time 2 minutes In the aftermath of ...

Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory recreated part of the intense chaos inside a nuclear fireball to better understand how radioactive fallout forms. Their experiments revealed that ...

Following recent comments on nuclear testing by United States President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin, it’s more important than ever to remember that nuclear detonations — whether in ...

A British nuclear test conducted on the Pacific island of Kiritimati (also known as Christmas Island) in 1957. Smith Archive/Alamy “The Ministry of Defence has always maintained that it never rained,” ...