In 1945, the Trinity test signified the beginning of the nuclear age and marked the successful output of the Manhattan ...

On July 25, 1946, the US detonated "Helen of Bikini" 90 feet underwater at Bikini Atoll — the first submerged nuclear test. It sank eight warships and drenched the fleet in radioactive spray, teaching ...

Operation Crossroads saw the first postwar nuclear detonations, as the Army and Navy tried to see what atomic weapons could ...

Hell burst from the skies over Yucca Flat this morning as America's latest model atom bomb exploded with enough force to ...

Editor’s note: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists presents here, from its September 1946 issue, an eyewitness account of the first atomic bomb test in the Marshall Islands. In it, the author not ...

Editor’s note: If you’d like to pinpoint the instant when the world entered the nuclear age, 5:29:45 a.m. Mountain War Time on 16 July 1945, is an excellent choice. That was the moment when human ...

Veterans involved in nuclear waste clean ups at sites near Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands, Palomares, Spain, and ...

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 ...

The veterans are campaigning for full disclosure of the impact of the UK's nuclear testing programme.

VIENNA (Reuters) - Two months after what is widely believed to have been a nuclear test by North Korea, the radioactive particles to prove it have yet to be detected, suggesting the communist state is ...

One winter’s day in June 1956, Britain detonated the largest weapon ever exploded in Australia. The test, code-named Mosaic ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. THE FIRST NUCLEAR reactor on earth went critical 2 billion years ago in ...