Uranium produced in St. Louis was used for the secretive Manhattan Project. Leftover waste was dumped around the city.

Russia’s State Atomic Energy Corporation (Rosatom) is pressing on with its plan to build a nuclear power plant in Naypyitaw, despite the partial destruction of the city during the March 28 earthquake.

A former airbase used by the United States in World War II to drop the two atomic bombs on Japan’s Hiroshima and Nagasaki is ...