In 1996, countries with nuclear capability signed the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. Though this has not yet been enforced, the last tests by the United States, the United Kingdom and Russia were ...

A new map has revealed the terrifying spread of radioactive fallout from US nuclear tests, showing the contamination in 46 ...

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT. As fears over the potential threat of nuclear warfare continue to escalate, the Mirror takes a look at what such a catastrophic outcome might look like, using a disturbin ...

The most powerful U.S. weapon ever tested, the TX-21 "Shrimp" bomb, unleashed 15 megatons of explosive power during the "Castle Bravo" test at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands on March 1, 1954.

The third most powerful test took place earlier in 1962, with a yield of 21.1 megatons. Much like the other very high-yield Soviet bomb tests, Test 147 was detonated in the air over Novaya Zemlya ...

After the U.S. joined the conflict between Israel and Iran, striking three nuclear enrichment sites in Iran in June 2025, internet users shared what they claimed was a Federal Emergency Management ...

The first atomic bomb test took place 78 years ago this Sunday — July 16, 1945 — and opened the door to the dangerous nuclear arms race the world has seen ever since. J.

The study also reanalyzed fallout from all 93 aboveground U.S. atomic tests in Nevada and created a map depicting composite deposition of radioactive material across the contiguous U.S.

On the morning of that date in 1954, the United States carried out Castle Bravo, the first-ever trial of a deliverable hydrogen bomb, on a man-made island in Bikini Atoll in the mid-Pacific ...

The world's first atomic bomb was tested in New Mexico in 1945, where hundreds of locals are still facing fallout from the test. Many are also fighting for compensation from the federal government.