The NNSA has recently given the public a rare glimpse into one of the secret nuclear labs where America used to test its ...

In addition to highlighting the need for the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, Dave Crete’s story highlights the dangers of explosive nuclear testing ...

The next steps in the fatal midair plane and helicopter crash investigation. And, why nuclear testing could ramp up in the ...

In the middle of a dry lakebed northwest of Las Vegas sits a lone section ... an Air Force bomber dropped a Mk-6D nuclear ...

Thousands of feet underground, in a laboratory northwest of Las Vegas, the U.S. conducts some of its most sensitive nuclear weapons research. Nuclear testing seems like a Cold War relic ...

A group of journalists were allowed to tour a weapons laboratory deep underground in Frenchman Flat, Nevada. NPR's science correspondent Geoff Brumfiel was among them.

The U.S. hasn't tested a nuclear weapon in decades, and since the 1990s has used simulations and experiments to verify they're working properly. NPR was granted a rare look at how they do it.

The United States maintains an arsenal of thousands of nuclear weapons ... NPR's Geoff Brumfiel got a peek into the testing program in the desert outside Las Vegas. (SOUNDBITE OF CAR DRIVING ...