To date, only the US has ever dropped nuclear bombs on a population — in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Still, the number of ...

Initially constructed as a defense against Soviet threats during the Cold War, the Barnton Nuclear ... bunker was built to endure 3-megaton nuclear bombs, so it would not be suitable for modern ...

Espionage by members of the Manhattan Project helped the USSR build its first atomic bomb. After Hitler’s ... an especially tense period of the Cold War. Three weeks after the crash, Lieutenant ...

Expanding the nuclear-sharing program to Warsaw would send a clear message to Putin: any attack on Poland would be a ...

Just a few months after the U.S. dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki ... To strengthen its case, the United States offered its Cold War allies a deal: it would use its arsenal to ...

Cold War bomb testing was part of a massive increase in the number of nuclear weapons, which peaked at more than 60,000. After nuclear war was barely avoided during the Cuban missile crisis ...

The government has been urged to publish 370 documents about blood testing of troops during nuclear weapons trials, after the ...

Cold War bomb testing was part of a massive increase in the number of nuclear weapons, which peaked at more than 60,000. Kansas City plays a major part in their production, with the Kansas City ...

If a nuclear bomb were headed toward the US ... prepared or educated on what to do in the event of a nuclear attack as Americans were during the Cold War, when stocked fallout shelters, nuclear drills ...