Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dozens of nuclear tests were carried out by the US in the Pacific between 1946 and 1958. The largest of these was the detonation ...

Key Point: From the moment the device detonated, many of the observers knew something had gone spectacularly wrong. More than 60 years ago on an island in the South Pacific, scientists and military ...

The Operation Castle group of tests sought to validate dropping new, high-yield thermonuclear weapons from the air. However, the technology involved in making the bombs was complex and unproven, so ...

Seven decades after Castle Bravo, the United States’ most devastating nuclear test, it’s time to give the nation fair compensation. An advance team of Bikini men board a landing craft to assist U.S.

In 1954, scientists and military personnel gathered at Bikini Atoll to witness Castle Bravo, the first test in a major series of thermonuclear experiments conducted during the early Cold War. The ...

Seven decades after Castle Bravo, the United States’ most devastating nuclear test, it’s time to give the nation fair compensation.