As the cloud cleared, Air Force bombers dropped in to gather air samples. Researchers hoped that the radioactive fallout ...
SARASOTA, Fla. ( WWSB) - The world’s first nuclear device detonation on July 16, 1945, over New Mexico had consequences that ...
Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory have, for the first time, used a breakthrough technique with a goal of better ...
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The nuclear test that changed how the world thinks about war

In 1961, the Soviet Union detonated the largest nuclear weapon ever built, a test so powerful it sent shockwaves around the ...
Commercial nuclear reactors all work pretty much the same way. Atoms of a radioactive material split, emitting neutrons.