Remembering the Trinity test - 81 years later

"We were the first people exposed to radiation anyplace in the world due to an atomic bomb," said Tina Cordova, co-founder of ...
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Exposure of the American People to Iodine-131 from Nevada Nuclear-Bomb Tests: Review of the National Cancer Institute Report and Public Health Implications

In addition to nuclear weapons tests, the backdrop for current concerns about exposure to I-131 includes the 1986 nuclear accident at Chernobyl and its aftermath, which includes many cases of thyroid ...
Digital Journal

US scientists urge government to renounce nuclear tests

Top US scientists called on President Donald Trump- Thursday to not resume nuclear weapons tests, saying such tests would heighten the risk of a nuclear war. In a letter published on the 75th ...
History Today

The British Bombs Down Under

The legacy of a decade of British weapons testing in its vast central deserts has forced Australia into an uncomfortable ...
Stars and Stripes

‘We worked in secrecy’: Cold War-era veterans exposed to radiation demand easier access to VA benefits

WASHINGTON — Incomplete, lost and destroyed military records hinder efforts by some Cold War-era veterans exposed to radiation at the Nevada Test and Training Range and other nuclear weapons sites to ...
Reuters

North Korean nuclear test shook the earth but where's the proper proof?

VIENNA (Reuters) - Two months after what is widely believed to have been a nuclear test by North Korea, the radioactive particles to prove it have yet to be detected, suggesting the communist state is ...
TASS

Threat in nonproliferation, potential response to nuclear tests: senior diplomat’s remarks

MOSCOW, April 20. /TASS/. Russia is committed to the moratorium on nuclear testing but will respond in kind should the United States or other countries violate it, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister ...