Out of this surreal convergence of spectacle and science emerged one of the most striking and unsettling cultural icons of ...
The Rulison test — conducted at a depth of 8,425 feet — was the deepest subterranean nuclear-bomb detonation conducted in U.S. history.
TOMORROW, 80 YEARS SINCE THE WORLD’S FIRST ATOMIC BOMB WAS DETONATED IN NEW MEXICO. CONSIDERED INSTRUMENTAL IN THE EFFORTS TO END WORLD WAR TWO, THE TRINITY TEST DEVASTATED LOCAL COMMUNITIES.
During the Cold War, NASA turned to an unlikely classroom to prepare astronauts for the Moon. Nuclear bomb craters closely ...