The military wanted to test the electromagnetic impacts of nuclear weapons in space. In 1962 they lit up the sky.

adding that it would "allow the US to conduct open-air nuclear testing within the US or in the Pacific over open water or uninhabited atoll." Emphasis on the "open-air," which would be a massive ...

A thousand feet beneath the desert, the United States conducts experiments to verify that its weapons work. But some fear a ...

A mushroom cloud forming after a July 1946 atomic bomb test by the US military on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean - Copyright US Defense Nuclear Agency/AFP - A ...