As World War II slipped into the Cold War, the US...  ...pped into the Cold War, the US conducted tests of nuclear weapons in the surface, in the air, and underwater. By 19...  ...reason not to verify an agreement with them about nuclear testing. Got that? Geologic requirements pointed...

Have you ever wondered about the effects of a nuclear bomb going off in your city? Of course you have,...

On October 30, 1961, the Soviet Union tested the l...  ...ber 30, 1961, the Soviet Union tested the largest nuclear bomb ever made, the Tsar Bomba. It was deployed 1...  ...iet physicist Andrei Sakharov, completely against nuclear weapons research and into an activist for peace and freed...

This is not about Oak Ridge, Tennessee, which we'v...  ...Scientific Laboratory to design the world's first nuclear bomb. Before the laboratory, there was little to...  ...me a community. After the war, the development of nuclear weapons continued at Los Alamos, but the government didn'...  ...ost of 12,000 citi...

(Image: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)Ala...  ...e National Laboratory)Alaska was the site of some nuclear testing during the 1960s and 70s, including the l...  ...1960s and 70s, including the largest underground nuclear test ever conducted by the United States.But Proj...  ...ne was trying to learn abo...

(Photo: Jun Seita)One of the greatest problems wit...  ...hoto: Jun Seita)One of the greatest problems with nuclear war strategy is that nuclear attacks require very little time to carry out. At...  ...o create that condition. It’s quoted at the Nuclear Secrecy Blog:There...

(Photo: The Troy II-C nuclear ramjet engine via the US Department of Energy)In...  ...w type of aircraft. This was the Atomic Age, when nuclear energy seemed to offer unlimited energy in numero...  ...eemed to offer unlimited energy in numerous ways. Nuclear reactors provide eno...

NUKEMAP, a Google Maps application by Alex Wel...  ...ication by Alex Wellerstein, makes the dangers of nuclear war personal. Move the marker anywhere in the wor...  ...e the marker anywhere in the world, then select a nuclear weapon . You can choose anything from the 20 ton Davy Cro...

Dietrich Wegner made this 20-foot tall childre...  ...itled Homeland and is a convincing imitation of a nuclear detonation. Remember: your kids are never too you...  ...r kids are never too young to start learning post- nuclear

During the early years of the Cold War, Britain pr...  ...y years of the Cold War, Britain proposed placing nuclear mines along the eastern border of West Germany....