There has not been a major (or minor) nuclear explosion since the 1960s. This is almost entirely because ...
During the late 1970s, the United States developed a nuclear weapon designed not to flatten cities but to kill the people ...
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Many Americans—including students in the History of the Atomic Bomb course taught at the University of Texas at Austin by Bruce J. Hunt, A&S '84 (PhD)—have learned a version of this story: On Aug. 6, ...
MAJURO, MARSHALL ISLANDS — Lemeyo Abon learned about snow from the movies played on projectors by visiting American sailors. But living on Rongelap — a remote tropical atoll in the central Pacific ...