Sir Keir Starmer has promised to meet veterans of Britain's Cold War nuclear weapons testing programme "hopefully by the end ...

Even eighty years after the first nuclear bomb test, the consequences still haunt people all around the world. Radioactive fallout hasn’t just vanished; instead, it continues to affect the health of ...

France tested nuclear weapons for 30 years in the Pacific. The people of French Polynesia bore the brunt of the testing. "For ...

Barbara Kent and a dozen other 13-year-old girls believed nuclear fallout from the Manhattan Project's Trinity test was summertime snow.

When the U.S.’ first nuclear bomb was detonated in south-central New Mexico, it was believed to set off a chain of cancers and health problems suffered by the surrounding communities for generations.

Decades after Semipalatinsk, the collapse of arms control leaves the world on the edge again.

After discussing the emergence of nuclear physics, Close goes on to talk about the Allies’ development of the nuclear bomb. A key figure in this history was Enrico Fermi, who abandoned Fascist Italy ...

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 ...

(Corrections & Clarifications: This story previously misstated how far nuclear fallout from the government's atomic tests reached. Fallout from the initial Trinity Test reached 46 of the 48 contiguous ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — It wasn't going to be easy to track down the woman who came to be known as "Miss Atomic Bomb." All Robert Friedrichs had to go on was a stage name he found printed under an archival ...