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

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.

Military veterans say they were exposed to radiation near Area 51, and many are now suffering from severe health issues.

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) HRUBY: Other experiments are conducted underground at the former Nevada test site. BRUMFIEL: ...Where the nuclear tests used to happen. Now, I've heard about ...

On this day 74 years ago, nuclear testing kicked off at the Nevada Test Site, just 65 miles north of Las Vegas. This marked one of the most significant nuclear test sites in the nation.

The experiment will take place this spring at Nevadas PULSE facility National Public Radio reports The US is preparing for another lsqu ...

Originally from Under the Cloud: The Decades of Nuclear Testing by Richard Miller, and featured in Silent Fallout  From 1959-1970, the communities of Saint Louis, Missouri were tasked with a unique ...

An atomic test that took place on March 23, 1955, at the Nevada Test Site. In the 1950s, nuclear weapons were regularly detonated aboveground to see what the effects would be on people and ...