Nuclear weapons haven’t been tested in the United States since 1992. Find out why, and what could happen if the hiatus ends.

Nuclear weapons tests are among the most violent events humans can trigger, and that violence leaves fingerprints in the ...

Triangles mark seismometers used to study the Oct. 5, 2024, earthquake, along with two similar events identified by the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization. The 2015 event shares a nearly ...

Minutes after a magnitude 4.5 earthquake hit Iran on October 5, 2024, rumors swirled that it wasn’t natural—claims that scientists have now shown to be false. Reading time 3 minutes On October 5, 2024 ...

Could the seismic signal of an underground nuclear test explosion be "hidden" by the signal generated by a natural earthquake? The new analysis by Joshua Carmichael and colleagues at Los Alamos ...

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BAXTERVILLE, Miss. (WDAM) - There’s no signpost marking Mississippi’s only nuclear test site. There’s no visitor center, either — just timberland, wildlife … and a radioactive legacy buried beneath ...

Routine reactor emissions pose no meaningful health risk to the US workers and population, a health physicist and a nuclear ...