Way out in the Kansas prairie, 140 feet below ground, a concrete-lined relic of Cold War annihilation has received a literal — and metaphorical — coat of “fresh paint throughout.” It’s not being ...

On a spring day in 1978, a fisherman caught a tiger shark in the lagoon surrounding Enewetak Atoll, part of the Marshall Islands in the north Pacific. That shark, along with the remains of a green sea ...

Access to French nuclear archives has increased dramatically during the past year. Since October 2021, French officials have declassified thousands of documents about the development of French nuclear ...

Thirty-seven years ago, on April 26 1986, the reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant suffered a catastrophic meltdown. In the weeks that followed, the deadly event drove hundreds of thousands of ...

There’s a collection of official historical documents published by the U.S. government that — let’s be blunt — I’m obsessed with. These documents recount President Ronald Reagan’s relations with the ...

Nuclear explosions can have far-reaching consequences on the environment and people surrounding a detonation site. After a nuclear weapon test, for example, particles and gases from an explosion ...

While the book is promoted as focusing on nuclear power, only section four, the last 147 pages of the 388-page text (followed by 40 pages of references), recounts the history and hoped-for renaissance ...

Molten salt reactors (MSRs) represent a fascinating intersection of nuclear history and modern innovation. The concept of using molten salts as both a coolant and fuel carrier dates back to the 1950s, ...

Alex Wellerstein joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about nuclear science. Which nations have nuclear bombs? Who decides who gets to have nuclear warheads and who doesn't? Why were ...

This article appeared in History of War magazine issue 152. CIA analysts gathered around U-2 spy plane photographs taken of Cuban military facilities. With horror, they realised they had just ...

Apart from at the end of World War II, nuclear weapons have never been used in conflict. In his meticulous and enthralling account, Wellerstein argues that a lot of credit for this history of nonuse ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (WKRN) — Folks in Clarksville know that Fort Campbell is home to the Screaming Eagles and The Green Berets. But ...