In 1967, US satellites hunting secret nuclear tests detected a flash from deep space; the accidental signal became the first observed gamma-ray burst

Gamma-ray bursts are among the most powerful explosions observed in the universe. First accidentally detected by Vela ...
Yahoo

Soviet jet dropping 11-kiloton nuclear bomb captured in rare Cold War-era video

Recently, footage has circulated on social media that appears to document one of the most unusual nuclear tests of the Cold War: the live detonation of a tactical atomic bomb dropped from a ...
Digital Journal

US scientists urge government to renounce nuclear tests

Top US scientists called on President Donald Trump- Thursday to not resume nuclear weapons tests, saying such tests would heighten the risk of a nuclear war. In a letter published on the 75th ...
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August 5 in History: Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and Curiosity’s Mars Landing

Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Curiosity’s Mars landing, Henry I, upper Volta independence, Marilyn Monroe, Neil Armstrong.
Reuters

North Korean nuclear test shook the earth but where's the proper proof?

VIENNA (Reuters) - Two months after what is widely believed to have been a nuclear test by North Korea, the radioactive particles to prove it have yet to be detected, suggesting the communist state is ...
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Before the next nuclear crisis, listen to those who lived through the last one

As global nuclear tensions mount, the firsthand testimonies of atomic bombing and testing survivors—from Japanese hibakusha ...