Growing up in Salt Lake City, Utah, in the 1950s and 60s, Mary Dickson was among the millions of American schoolchildren taught to “duck and cover” in the event of a nuclear war. “I just remember ...

Even eighty years after the first nuclear bomb test, the consequences still haunt people all around the world. Radioactive fallout hasn’t just vanished; instead, it continues to affect the health of ...

The nuclear danger today is greater than at any time since the Cold War. The world faces the prospect of a renewed arms race, this time unconstrained by the agreements that for decades kept ...

When the U.S. military detonated the world's first nuclear weapon near New Mexico’s Jornada del Muerto desert in 1945, people living in the nearby areas were exposed to harmful radiation. Weeks later, ...

(RNS) — Instead, the US government is pouring billions more of our tax dollars into building a new generation of nuclear weapons and planning to resume nuclear testing. (RNS) — Eighty years ago, the ...

ST. LOUIS – Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., stood shoulder-to-shoulder with staunch Democrats to celebrate the inclusion of key compensation for survivors of nuclear testing inside President Donald Trump's ...

Nobel Laureates and leading nuclear experts gathered at the University of Chicago this week to discuss the continuing dangers of nuclear war and the need for prevention. Experts warned at a panel ...

North Korea has made significant advances in its nuclear and ballistic missile programs in the absence of talks.

On July 16, 1945, the skies of Los Alamos in New Mexico were lit by something other than the sun when, at 5:30 a.m., the first atomic bomb detonation, known as the Trinity nuclear test, ushered the ...

Update: President Trump announced the U.S. launched strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities, including Fordo, on Saturday, June 21. Read the latest here. Iran has two known underground nuclear ...

It would be the most severe and abrupt disruption to global ecological systems. Yet in many mainstream climate narratives, it’s rarely discussed. A nuclear test on May 25, 1953, at the Nevada Proving ...