The Semipalatinsk Test Site, also called the Polygon, is lesser known but was used by the Soviet Union to test nuclear ...

The total area burned in the recent Los Angeles fires is comparable to that of the primary destruction zone of a strategic ...

The military exposed thousands of servicemen to radioactivity when it called them to participate in nuclear weapons tests, ...

It’s getting hotter — and more expensive to stay cool — in the island nation. Will it become the first in Southeast Asia to ...

Only two atomic bombs have ever been dropped in ... he could not escape the effects of the radiation. He has had kidney and liver problems since the age of 35, and recently had treatment for ...

We might have survived a bomb blast but the radioactive ... residents of potential health effects.” Native Americans who worked in Uranium mines died from radiation exposures.

Today we present the first half of a two-part radio documentary from our friends at SF Public Press, “Exposed,” opening a window into the little-known history of the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. The ...

A thousand feet beneath the desert, the United States conducts experiments to verify that its weapons work. But some fear a live test could come soon.

Imagine the effect that the nuclear explosion had on human beings,” explains this 84-year-old Japanese man, a survivor of the atomic bomb, in an interview with ... We lived six kilometers from the ...

The mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have invited Donald Trump to visit them this year, on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the dropping of atomic ... due to the effects of radiation.

“Resuming atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons would be disastrous,” says Joseph Mangano, executive director of the Radiation and Public Health Project. He cited the “lessons learned from ...

Bus route 15 passes through Bayview-Hunters Point: a neighborhood of endless warehouses, a single grocery store amidst a ...