Operation Crossroads saw the first postwar nuclear detonations, as the Army and Navy tried to see what atomic weapons could ...

In 1956, during Operation Redwing, the United States conducted an experimental nuclear test known as Yuma. Engineers were ...

Recently, footage has circulated on social media that appears to document one of the most unusual nuclear tests of the Cold War: the live detonation of a tactical atomic bomb dropped from a ...

Editor’s note: If you’d like to pinpoint the instant when the world entered the nuclear age, 5:29:45 a.m. Mountain War Time on 16 July 1945, is an excellent choice. That was the moment when human ...