As the cloud cleared, Air Force bombers dropped in to gather air samples. Researchers hoped that the radioactive fallout ...
From Pacific islands to global fallout, a new report traces how decades of nuclear testing left a silent health crisis that ...
The Soviet Union built the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated, but just before its test, engineers deliberately reduced ...
Global conflicts involving the U.S. are raising concerns about the nation's safety from a potential attack Florida could be a target due to its numerous military bases, major shipping ports and ...
Editor’s note: “Behind the News” is the product of Sun staff assisted by the Sun’s AI lab, which includes a variety of tools such as Anthropic’s Claude, Perplexity AI, Google Gemini and ChatGPT. On ...
Many Americans—including students in the History of the Atomic Bomb course taught at the University of Texas at Austin by Bruce J. Hunt, A&S '84 (PhD)—have learned a version of this story: On Aug. 6, ...
President Donald Trump's comments Thursday suggesting the United States will restart its testing of nuclear weapons upends decades of American policy in regards to the bomb, but come as Washington's ...
During the Cold War the U.S. considered putting nuclear weapons on balloons and letting them float into enemy territory for a strike.