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The Totskoye Nuclear Exercise Exposed Soldiers to Radiation to Prepare for a Potential Third World War

Learn why thousands of soldiers were deliberately exposed to radiation from a nuclear bomb in the Soviet Union, and why other ...

Kremlin blasts France’s nuclear missile test, calls anti-Russia strategy a dead end

The Kremlin on Wednesday criticised France's test launch of a nuclear-capable missile, saying Europe's defence identity was being built around confrontation with Russia and calling the strategy a ...

Pape Warns Iran Could Test Nuclear Weapon in 'October Surprise'

An expert on military escalation, Pape warned Sunday that Tehran could carry out a nuclear weapons test as part of an effort to confront President Donald Trump with a major military and political ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN

US conducts nuclear blast detection test to catch rivals’ ‘decoupled’ detonations

The U.S. energy department’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has conducted an underground chemical ...
Newsday

UN spotlights nuclear weapon states' refusal to ratify test ban treaty at divisive time

UNITED NATIONS — With the U.S., Russia, China and other countries that have nuclear weapons refusing to ratify the treaty that bans atomic testing, the United Nations warned on Monday that any ...
Council on Foreign Relations

Bill Clinton Signs the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

Thirty years ago today, President Bill Clinton signed the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). The treaty bars ...

Moscow invites Kim Jong Un for official visit as Pyongyang rejects calls to halt nuclear tests

Moscow and Pyongyang have drawn markedly closer in recent years, with North Korea sending troops to fight alongside Russian forces in Ukraine in 2024.
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

The First Nuclear Test in New Mexico

2. At 0530, 16 July 1945, in a remote section of the Alamogordo Air Base, New Mexico, the first full-scale test was made of ...