There are many things that have defined Nevada over time: the Kit Carson trail, the legalization of gaming and loosening of ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Nevada desert once scarred by mushroom clouds now shelters a surprisingly rich web of life, with scientists documenting roughly 1,500 plant and animal species inside the former nuclear proving ...

Over seven decades of nuclear weapons testing have left a toll that can no longer be dismissed as an abstract risk. A new ...

Southern Nevada’s Congressional delegation is calling on the Trump administration to “reaffirm” the United States’ decadeslong moratorium on explosive nuclear testing, which was concentrated in Nevada ...

NORTH RUPERT, Vt. (NEWS10) — Atomic veterans are soldiers who were sent into nuclear tests during the 1950s and 60s, often just miles from the blast — with no protective gear and no warning. NEWS10’s ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates(AP) — President Donald Trump's comments Thursday suggesting the United States will restart its testing of nuclear weapons upends decades of American policy in regards to ...

President Trump’s call to resume nuclear tests was muddied this week when Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the United States would not resume explosive testing, which was last conducted in the 1990s ...

An image of a mushroom cloud is shown at the theater of the Atomic Testing Museum, in Las Vegas, Nevada, Feb. 11, 2005 (AP photo by Joe Cavaretta). In the midst of trading promises with both allies ...