As the U.S. marks its 250th anniversary, the National Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas highlights Nevada’s central role in ...

To mark America's 250th birthday, we are revisiting key moments in Nevada history that had an impact on the country as a ...

The government acknowledges downwinders throughout Utah, Idaho and New Mexico, as well as parts of Arizona, Nevada and ...

In addition to nuclear weapons tests, the backdrop for current concerns about exposure to I-131 includes the 1986 nuclear accident at Chernobyl and its aftermath, which includes many cases of thyroid ...

In 1963, the U.S. detonated a nuclear bomb deep beneath the Nevada desert. Project Shoal was designed to test what a nuclear explosion looked like in a seismically active area. The goal was not ...

In the late 1950s, 320,000 baby teeth were collected from children in the greater St. Louis, Missouri, area with the intent ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Deep within Nevada's desert lies one of the most unusual landscapes on Earth. Yucca Flat is covered with hundreds of craters ...

LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — Visitors at the Nevada National Security Site Museum got a lesson in Cold War history and Southern Nevada’s atomic past Saturday. Retired test site worker Marcus Brown gave a ...

U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., visited the Nevada National Security Site last week to observe how scientists certify the nation’s nuclear stockpile without detonating weapons, her office said this ...

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To undertake this study, the IOM and the NRC established two committees (see rosters at the front of this report and the Committee Biographies). In its request to the IOM and the NRC, the NCI asked ...