A military plane was carrying the weapons when it exploded over a rural area, killing three people and sending the bombs plunging toward the ground Jan. 24, 1961. The “safety interlocks on the weapons ...

Tensions have been brewing in the area for several days, prompting the commander of the Nagrota-based White Knight Corps to ...

Swedish radioactive waste management company Svensk Kärnbränslehantering (SKB) has begun excavation works to extend its Final Repository for Short-Lived ...

One of the bombs “touched down essentially undamaged,” falling toward the ground with a parachute ... capable of exploding and delivering a nuclear blast sufficient to level homes in a ...

At the dawn of the atomic age, the United States conducted roughly 200 nuclear explosive tests above ground, underwater ... environmental damage, as the blast and associated radiological impact ...