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Atomic Bomb Tests And The Dawn Of The Bikini, 1946 Was A Strange Summer

The summer of 1946 saw a lot of shocking scenes. There were the atomic bomb tests that tore up the waters off the Marshall ...

How The US Tested Nuclear Weapons (And Why It Became Too Dangerous To Continue)

The U.S. was the first nation to test a nuclear bomb, doing so in 1945, and continued testing above and below ground until a ...

Is the world back to testing nuclear weapons? Here are the facts

For more than 30 years, major nuclear powers have refrained from testing nuclear bombs. But that streak may soon be over as Russia and the U.S. conduct missile tests and threaten to resume explosions ...

Nuclear testing: Why did it stop, why test and who has nuclear weapons?

The United States last tested in 1992, China and France in 1996 and the Soviet Union in 1990. Russia, which inherited most of ...
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From Oak Ridge to Hiroshima: One family’s memories of the Atomic Age

An atomic bomb test at Bikini Lagoon. Marshall Islands, July 1946. Today is the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and the first use of an atomic bomb in war, in this case by the United ...

Trump tells Pentagon to immediately resume testing US nuclear weapons

Trump made the surprise announcement on Truth Social while he was aboard his Marine One helicopter flying to meet Xi for a ...