On 9 July 1962, during one of the most dangerous periods of the Cold War, the United States carried out one of the most ...
Operation Crossroads saw the first postwar nuclear detonations, as the Army and Navy tried to see what atomic weapons could ...
When the first nuclear bomb exploded at the Trinity site in 1945, it turned the desert sand into a unique laboratory for impossible science. Even now, decades later, the radioactive glass created by ...
On August 6, 1945, the US bomber Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in military combat on the Japanese city of ...
Scam artists are targeting the $100,000 now available to eligible New Mexico victims of radiation exposure dating back to the ...
Atomic Bomb Safety for Students. American students learned safety and preparedness in case of an atomic bomb explosion in this 1951 "Duck and Cover" public awareness campaign vide ...
Gen. Stephen Whiting, the commander of U.S. Space Command, recently made waves when he publicly discussed a major threat that America’s newest military branch recently war-gamed — that of an adversary ...