History
- The Decision to End U.S. Nuclear Testing
- The Vela Flash: Forty Years Ago
- Little-Known Fact: America Tested 1,032 Nuclear Weapons on Its Own Soil
- Detection of the First Soviet Nuclear Test, September 1949
- "Atoms for Peace" Was Actually a “Threat to Peace” – AEC Official in 1955
- U.S. REPORTS THE DETAILS OF BOTCHED NUCLEAR TESTS
- U.S. KEPT IGNORING EVIDENCE ABOUT FALLOUT'S DEADLY EFFECTS
- Siren sounds on nuclear fallout embedded in melting glaciers
- The US conducted most of its early nuclear tests in the Pacific, but they became too costly to continue ...
- Sir Mark Oliphant – Australia’s – and Britain’s – J. Robert Oppenheimer?
- The Conqueror (1956)
- The Tsar Bomba: This Russia Nuclear Weapon Could Wipe out all of Los Angeles
- What Happened to the Nuclear Test Sites?
- Atomic Heritage Foundation
- Mururoa’s silent witnesses
- The Downwinders of Utah Archive Oral History Expansion
Today, for the first time since the beginning of the nuclear age, none of the world’s nuclear-armed states is conducting nuclear test explosions. After more than 2,000 detonations, the world’s nuclear test sites are dormant. The journey that brought us to this point has been long, and there have been some key turning points and some particularly important decision-makers who have steered us away from nuclear testing and the arms racing and environmental contamination it produces.
Controversy Hovers over Possible Nuclear Signal Detected in South Atlantic in 1979; Israeli or South African Origin Suspected by Some Experts – and President Carter CIA Saw “Probability of a Nuclear Test as 90% Plus,” According to Newly Posted Document Additional Evidence Casts Doubts on White House Science Advisers’ Dismissal of Possibility of a Nuclear Test
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Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto has created a beautiful, undeniably scary time-lapse map of the 2053 nuclear explosions which have taken place between 1945 and 1998, beginning with the Manhattan Project's "Trinity" test near Los Alamos and concluding with Pakistan's nuclear tests in May of 1998.
Author: Brent Ashcroft Published: 4:57 PM EST November 11, 2019 Updated: 9:36 AM EST November 12, 2019 ATOMIC VETERANS: Still haunted and awaiting honor after 50 years of forced silence
The story of the 1956 film The Conqueror is among the most shameful in the history of Hollywood, a town not exactly known for being a beacon of fairness and morality. The big-budget would-be blockbuster featured an epically miscast John Wayne as the 13th century Mongol warlord Genghis Khan and red-haired, lily-white actress Susan Hayward as Bortai, a Tartar princess. But casting which smacked of racism — par for the course for '50s Tinseltown — is the least of its terrible legacy.
The Central Intelligence Agency blandly dubbed the test “Joe 111.” But a more popular name born out of Russian pride and a sheer awe sums it all up — the Tsar Bomba, or “the King of Bombs.”
Nuclear testing ended over 20 years ago but the legacy of the test areas still remains and will do for hundreds or thousands of years. 8 countries have actively tested nuclear weapons, some in their own backyard if it was big enough like the Soviet Union and the US but they also used others peoples backyards in the Pacific, the British and French did this. But what happened to the test sites, in this video we look at the US and Soviet test programs and what became of them and the people nearby.
Forty-six years ago today Gisborne man Tony Coutts was a “10-foot tall and bulletproof” 19-year-old when he sailed on HMNZS Otago for the nuclear bomb test zone at Mururoa.