To mark America's 250th birthday, we are revisiting key moments in Nevada history that had an impact on the country as a ...

The Nevada desert once scarred by mushroom clouds now shelters a surprisingly rich web of life, with scientists documenting roughly 1,500 plant and animal species inside the former nuclear proving ...

A bipartisan group in Congress plans to introduce legislation that will expand the federal government’s program compensating ...

The government acknowledges downwinders throughout Utah, Idaho and New Mexico, as well as parts of Arizona, Nevada and ...

Thomas Hunt, M.D., associate professor of family and community with the University of Nevada School of Medicine and Nevada program director for the Radiation Exposure Screening and Education Program ...

"How the military shell-shocked the West," reads a headline from a recent Deseret Magazine article from colleague Matthew Brown. Which leads to the question: Why in the world did the military bomb its ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — President Donald Trump's comments Thursday suggesting the United States will restart its testing of nuclear weapons upends decades of American policy in regards to the ...

Nevada's U.S. Senators want closer scrutiny of hazardous materials shipping after a damaged nuclear waste container was found on a truck bound for the Nevada Test Site.

America’s last nuclear detonation was nothing special. Smaller than the bomb that killed 73,000 people in Nagasaki, it exploded 1,397 feet below the Nevada desert. It shook the ground, created a ...

Southern Nevada’s Congressional delegation is calling on the Trump administration to “reaffirm” the United States’ decadeslong moratorium on explosive nuclear testing, which was concentrated in Nevada ...

Nevada Democrats are pushing for more detail into Donald Trump’s call to resume nuclear testing as members of the president’s administration say publicly that explosive testing is unlikely. Sens.