Cold War bomb testing was part of a massive increase in the number of nuclear weapons, which peaked at more than 60,000. After nuclear war was barely avoided during the Cuban missile crisis ...

The nuclear tests conducted by the United States and the then USSR (present day Russia) during the Cold War-era have left ...

its radioactive signature didn't match the strength or the composition of the French nuclear tests. Instead, it matched the same signature seen across the world as a result of the Cold War arms race.

You think the Cold War is over? Think again. Russian and American forces are still challenging each other in the Arctic by Jon Bowermaster At 12:4 ...

The government has been urged to publish 370 documents about blood testing of troops during nuclear weapons trials, after the ...

During the Cold War, the United States deployed nuclear ... Have Changed the World W.J. Hennigan The Victims of U.S. Nuclear Testing Deserve More Than This W.J. Hennigan The Human Toll of Nuclear ...

The “Trinity” test, as it was secretly known, was the first nuclear detonation by the American military, occurring on July 16, 1945. That test resulted in the distribution of radioactive ...

Seventy years ago, in the early years of the Cold War, East and West were locked in a nuclear arms race. The UK government needed somewhere to test its first rockets capable of carrying a nuclear ...

In the 1950s the American public accepted above-ground nuclear bomb blasts just 65 miles from an American city as part of the ongoing Cold War effort. The tests became a tourist attraction for ...