Between 1946 and 1958, the United States detonated 67 nuclear weapons across the Marshall Islands, turning remote Pacific atolls into irradiated proving grounds. Decades later, scientists diving into ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MAJURO, MARSHALL ISLANDS — Lemeyo Abon learned about snow from the movies played on projectors by visiting American sailors. But ...

At first glance, the coral-trimmed Bikini Atoll looks like an advert for an idyllic beach holiday. Lost in the Pacific somewhere between Hawaii and The Philippines – it’s five hours by plane from ...

President Donald Trump’s call for the United States to resume testing of nuclear weapons last week has experts scratching their heads. What did he really mean – exploding a warhead or testing delivery ...

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 ...

Alex Partezana was a 22-year-old Marine in April 1953 when he received an unusual order: to observe nuclear weapons testing in the desert outside Las Vegas, Nevada. He still remembers the first blast ...

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 ...