Yucca Flat in Nevada was the site of 827 nuclear detonations while the US enhanced its nuclear weapons . Pictured above is a Google Maps satellite view...

Have you heard of the proposal to end the Gulf of...  ...chemes that involved using the explosive force of nuclear weapons in peaceful (if perhaps crazy) ways. For example...

This is a recently-declassified US government...  ...er than the Earth's atmosphere, and then detonate nuclear weapons to see: a) If a bomb's radiation would make it ha...

In 1945, physicist Harry Daghlian was working on a...  ...involved creating the beginning steps of a nuclear fission reactor by placing two half-sphe...  ...use in the Able test of the Operation Crossroads nuclear weapon test at the Bikini Atoll in the summer of 1946. T...