You're currently following this author! Click to unsubscribe from email alerts. The US military tested dozens of nuclear weapons in the Pacific in the years following World War II, but none of the ...

Key Point: From the moment the device detonated, many of the observers knew something had gone spectacularly wrong. More than 60 years ago on an island in the South Pacific, scientists and military ...

Radioactive powder began falling on Rongelap Atoll several hours after the United States detonated the Castle Bravo nuclear test on March 1, 1954. It settled on homes, clothing, food, water, and ...

The Operation Castle group of tests sought to validate dropping new, high-yield thermonuclear weapons from the air. However, the technology involved in making the bombs was complex and unproven, so ...

One of my favorite e-mail correspondents is the National Security Archive at The George Washington University in D.C. These guys specialize in bringing to light the hidden archaeology of the Cold War.

Seven decades after Castle Bravo, the United States’ most devastating nuclear test, it’s time to give the nation fair compensation.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dozens of nuclear tests were carried out by the US in the Pacific between 1946 and 1958. The largest of these was the detonation ...