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2 hours ago · Our government detonated 928 nuclear bombs at the Nevada Test Site outside Las Vegas, 100 of which were above ground. Most of these nuclear blasts were far more powerful than the atomic bombs that ...
5 days ago · The United States conducted the first aboveground nuclear weapon test in southeastern New Mexico on July 16, 1945. Between 1945 and 1963, hundreds of aboveground test took place around the world. Over time the number and size (or yield) of these weapons increased, especially in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
5 days ago · For decades, nuclear power has been the largest source of clean energy in the United States, accounting for 19% of total energy produced last year. The industry directly employs nearly 60,000 workers in good paying jobs, maintains these jobs for decades, and supports hundreds of thousands of other workers.
5 days ago · More than 2,000 nuclear tests have been conducted worldwide. The United States detonated over half of them with devastating consequences for Americans living downwind.
3 days ago · Columbia Point, Boston MA 02125 (617) 514-1600. CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System) video of President John F. Kennedy in the Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C., delivering a radio and television address to the American people on the passage of a treaty banning atmospheric nuclear weapons tests, later known as the Partial Test Ban Treaty ...
1 day ago · To the Editor: Re “ Nuclear Testing Victims Deserve More ,” by W.J. Hennigan (Opinion, May 26): The federal government’s nuclear weapons testing program was an assault on its own citizens ...
5 days ago · Between 1946 and 1958, the U.S., which administered the land, conducted 66 nuclear tests on Bikini and Enewetak atolls.
