The mushroom clouds that reared over the South Australian desert during British nuclear ... Monte Bello Islands of the West Australian coast, as well as hundreds of smaller tests.
By Shanna Hanbury The Marshall Islands government has announced it will protect an area of the Pacific Ocean described as one ...
Washington shifts towards India; Church Committee established into CIA, FBI crimes; Truman backs development of H-bomb; ...
They honed in on the Marshall Islands, a territory previously held by the Japanese ... Operation Crossroads involved another test as well. During the Baker test on July 25, an atomic bomb was ...
Bikini, Marshall Islands Bikini is ... In 1954, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb was detonated on the atoll, the most powerful in the history of American nuclear testing. Even the crew of a Japanese ...
The waters around two remote atolls in the central Pacific Ocean—spanning 18,500 square miles—are now protected from fishing ...
But did you know that humble household vegetables like potatoes and onions play a significant role in nuclear bomb testing? Yes, you read that right. These everyday staples, often found in ...
SYDNEY, Australia — The Marshall Islands declared on Tuesday its first national marine sanctuary, which protects a "pristine" expanse of the Pacific Ocean that is home to deep-sea sharks and green ...
One major problem was that the only nuclear bomb available to the UK at the time, the Blue Danube, needed to be stored under climate-controlled conditions. Tests conducted by the UK found that the ...
On this day 74 years ago, nuclear testing kicked off at the Nevada Test Site, just 65 miles north of Las Vegas.
No country except North Korea has detonated a nuclear bomb in a test since the 1990s, and open-air tests were banned by the international community in the 1960s. That's a good thing; the practice ...
No country except North Korea has detonated a nuclear bomb in a test since the 1990s, and open-air tests were banned by the international community in the 1960s. That's a good thing; the practice was ...