Deep beneath the remote Aleutian Islands lies a scar from the peak of the Cold War that remains one of the most significant military operations in history. Project Cannikin was the largest underground ...

For much of the past half-century, nuclear energy in the United States has occupied an uneasy space between a technology of the past and a technology of the future — but not quite one of the present.

Editor’s note: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists presents here, from its September 1946 issue, an eyewitness account of the first atomic bomb test in the Marshall Islands. In it, the author not ...

Experts warn that resumption of full nuclear weapons tests is unnecessary and would undermine the United States' efforts to discourage other nations from testing their own nukes. (Tech. Sgt. Draeke ...