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 ...

On this day 74 years ago, nuclear testing kicked off at the Nevada Test Site, just 65 miles north of Las Vegas.

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

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

As Trump takes office, issues of arms control, the U.S. arsenal and weapons testing will be on the radar for many nuclear weapons researchers.

nuclear testing was moved to sites—primarily the Nevada Test Site (now called the Nevada National Security Site), north of Las Vegas—deep underground, where nuclear effects could be better ...

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.

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 ...