Dr. Norman Panting arose at 4 a.m. and squeezed into a Douglas C-47 military transport aircraft. It was still dark by the time the plane rose to near 10,000 feet, but he and everyone aboard wore ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dozens of nuclear tests were carried out by the US in the Pacific between 1946 and 1958. The largest of these was the detonation ...

Later this month I will return to Japan for the annual Bikini commemoration and the Gensuikyō, or Japan Council Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs, annual conference. There won’t be a bikini fashion ...

The Operation Castle group of tests sought to validate dropping new, high-yield thermonuclear weapons from the air. However, the technology involved in making the bombs was complex and unproven, so ...

There are few places more peaceful than a Pacific island. At 6:45 on a March morning in 1954, that peace was shattered by the largest nuclear test in American history: Operation Bravo. The Bravo test ...