America’s last nuclear detonation was nothing special. Smaller than the bomb that killed 73,000 people in Nagasaki, it exploded 1,397 feet below the Nevada desert. It shook the ground, created a ...

Thomas Hunt, M.D., associate professor of family and community with the University of Nevada School of Medicine and Nevada program director for the Radiation Exposure Screening and Education Program ...

LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — President Trump ordered the Pentagon to resume nuclear testing “immediately,” ending a moratorium that has been in place since 1992. On his platform Truth Social, Trump wrote: “The ...

Now called the Nevada National Security Site, the former test range covers roughly 1,360 square miles in southeastern Nye County, about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas. It remains heavily restricted, ...

The Energy Department and Air Force in August successfully carried out the first tests dropping unarmed B61-12 nuclear gravity bombs from an F-35A fighter, the laboratory in charge of overseeing ...