BAXTERVILLE, Miss. (WDAM) - There’s no signpost marking Mississippi’s only nuclear test site. There’s no visitor center, either — just timberland, wildlife … and a radioactive legacy buried beneath ...

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You’ll get a realistic sense of what people felt when watching tests at the Nevada Test Site. When you visit the Ground Zero ...

Exorbitant appropriations were devoted to nuclear weapons research and manufacture. Nuclear test sites will remain radiated waste lands forever. Presiding over the Cold War nuclear arms build-up ...

Many scientists say “subcritical” experiments and computer simulations make nuclear weapons testing unnecessary.

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Former GOP Rep. Brandon Williams, nominated to lead the National Nuclear Security Administration, stands to inherit a hollowed-out workforce.

Tests that simulate the temperatures and pressures which the reactor systems will be subjected to during normal operation ...

Rex Heuermann's attorneys are asking for more time as they challenge something called nuclear DNA testing, which has never been used in a New York court of law. The judge has set what's called a ...

industrial sites, military operations and disaster relief scenarios, the company says. The lack of an in-core fluid in our ZEUS design not only simplifies greatly the design but also enables rapid ...

BAXTERVILLE, Miss. (WDAM) - There’s no signpost marking Mississippi’s only nuclear test site. There’s no visitor center, either — just timberland, wildlife … and a radioactive legacy ...