Key Point: From the moment the device detonated, many of the observers knew something had gone spectacularly wrong. More than 60 years ago on an island in the South Pacific, scientists and military ...

In 1954, the United States detonated Castle Bravo at Bikini Atoll expecting a far smaller blast, but the weapon exploded with ...

In 1954, the United States detonated Castle Bravo at Bikini Atoll expecting a far smaller blast, but the explosion came out vastly stronger than planned and became the largest nuclear test in U.S.

For the first time, scientists have conducted extensive mapping of the seafloor at Bikini Atoll, the remote Pacific Ocean testing site for atomic bombs between 1946 and 1954. The research was revealed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dozens of nuclear tests were carried out by the US in the Pacific between 1946 and 1958. The largest of these was the detonation ...

Dr. Norman Panting arose at 4 a.m. and squeezed into a Douglas C-47 military transport aircraft. It was still dark by the time the plane rose to near 10,000 feet, but he and everyone aboard wore ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The U.S. eventually agreed to pay more than $15 million in compensation to the Fukuryu Maru survivors. Sixty-plus years ago on an island in the South Pacific, scientists ...

Plokhy (Nuclear Folly), a professor of Ukranian history at Harvard, delivers a stunning survey of nuclear accidents from the 1954 Castle Bravo test on the Marshall Islands to the 2011 Fukushima ...