As the beginning of the Atomic Age fades into history, archaeologists work to document a time of uncertainty and experimentation Wearing protective goggles, observers from Canada and Britain watch MET ...

With the Nevada National Security Site restarting tours in August after a two-year hiatus, here is a look at site and its history from the past 60 years. The site, formerly known as the Nevada Test ...

More than 65 years ago, a 1-kiloton bomb ushered Las Vegas and Nevada into the atomic age. Another 99 above-ground nuclear tests followed at the Nevada Test Site, 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas. On ...

On this day in 1951 a nuclear bomb was dropped on Frenchman Flat in Nevada, marking the beginning of a testing regime that would entail hundreds of bombs being exploded on US soil, with periodic ...