The discovery from the Trinity nuclear test site shows how extreme conditions can result in materials never before seen in ...

Samples of "trinitite" created during the world’s first nuclear bomb test in 1945 contain unique crystals never seen before.

A strange scarlet rock was created during the world's first nuclear explosion in 1945, and scientists have now uncovered what ...

Ahead of the International Day against Nuclear Tests on August 29 2018, we met up with British atomic veterans who were ...

Before trinitite, the only known naturally formed quasicrystal came from meteorite fragments, likely produced during a violent asteroid collision in the early solar system. This tells us that ...

Forgotten photos of the Trinity detonation show the immensity of the project ...

Civilians have received benefits for work at the Nevada test site, but Cold War-era regulations still do not allow veterans ...

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 ...

VIENNA (AP) — The United States and Russia have both recently threatened to resume nuclear testing, alarming the international community and jeopardizing a global norm against such tests. Experts say ...

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 ...

A senior U.S. official offered new details Tuesday night about an alleged nuclear bomb test conducted by China in June 2020. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Yeaw spoke at a Hudson Institute ...