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, ...

For the first time in history there was a nuclear explosion ... before the blast. They were sent by radio to the other groups participating in and observing the test. As the time interval grew ...

The Roy Howard Community Journalism Centre (RHCJC) has published a report on a Mississippi underground nuclear test site ...

Igor Kurchatov, the scientific director of the soviet nuclear bomb program who was in charge of the test, arrived at the site in May of 1949. In the weeks leading up to the blast he organized two ...

Energy wave created by high-altitude nuclear explosion radiates hundreds of miles in all directions and Trestle will simulate this by two 5-million-volt pulsers discharging energy into ...

A video circulating on social media shows a blast in an empty plot, creating a large crater resembling an underground explosion.

and brings test conditions close to natural explosion experiments to the maximum," it said. The 12th institute studies the destructive factors of a nuclear blast and its impact on arms ...

In the tests, they burst through the surface ... years or even decades), since the burst of neutrons emitted in a nuclear blast could transform those metals into long-lived, highly radioactive ...