Scientific knowledge about the damaging effects of nuclear-weapons testing helped to end such tests. Those findings haven’t changed.
CONTENT WARNING: This article contains descriptions of nuclear weapons effects, including disturbing accounts of the victims. On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped the first atomic bomb ever ...
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The world is moving closer to the brink of nuclear war in alarming ways that are more dangerous and harder to anticipate than during the Cold War. The famous 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was a harrowing ...
With another film depiction of the Nuremberg Military Tribunal story being debuted, today’s plans and preparations involving thermonuclear weapons should be adjudged in this historical context, before ...
Though the country’s nuclear arsenal has undergone no explosive testing for decades, federal experts say it can reliably obliterate targets halfway around the globe. By William J. Broad President ...
Just minutes before he was scheduled to meet President Xi Jinping of China, the president threatened on social media to resume nuclear testing “on an equal basis” with other countries. By David E.
Deterring Russia, collecting motherly advice and sending postmortem postcards, through readers’ eyes.
At the outset of the Cold War era, the United States and the Soviet Union rapidly built up large nuclear arsenals as part of the prevailing doctrine of deterrence, under which each nation attempted to ...
Nuclear workers left in limbo by suspension of review boards Over 700,000 Americans have worked at nuclear enrichment or weapons sites since WW2 Trump administration says claims process on pause for ...
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