Many monitoring networks also plot the location of nuclear power plants and other relevant sites on their maps. The United States has its own network of radiation monitors. It operates under the ...

Many scientists say “subcritical” experiments and computer simulations make nuclear weapons testing unnecessary.

There’s no signpost marking Mississippi’s only nuclear test site. While the federal government monitors the underground area, ...

Sharp Howerton and her family are “downwinders,” people exposed to radiation from nuclear testing conducted by the federal government. On June 25, she presented her visual memoir ...

Between 1949 and 1991, 456 nuclear tests left a legacy of radioactive contamination and suffering. As ecologists map uninhabitable ... s illness stems from radiation, they seek proof while she ...

even millions of Americans could suffer from cancer and other diseases from exposure to toxic fallout in bomb tests. And a nuclear war could kill hundreds of millions, from acute radiation ...