In addition to highlighting the need for the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, Dave Crete’s story highlights the dangers of explosive nuclear testing ...

The NNSA has recently given the public a rare glimpse into one of the secret nuclear labs where America used to test its ...

Nemcic is far from alone. Robert Krouse is a former DOD contractor who said he worked alongside these vets. He endured two ...

Where the nuclear tests used to happen ... I was on a tour bus north of Las Vegas with a handful of other reporters driving across this beautiful, empty desert landscape where the U.S. government ...

A group of journalists were allowed to tour a weapons laboratory deep underground in Frenchman Flat, Nevada. NPR's science correspondent Geoff Brumfiel was among them.

On this day 74 years ago, nuclear testing kicked off at the Nevada Test Site, just 65 miles north of Las Vegas.

The next steps in the fatal midair plane and helicopter crash investigation. And, why nuclear testing could ramp up in the U.S., as well as a look inside the secret lab where weapons testing happens.

It’s a pivotal moment for nuclear weapons. Tensions between the United States and Russia, the two major nuclear powers, are high. Longstanding nuclear pacts have crumbled. China, which trails ...