If Moscow tested a nuclear weapon, it would likely do this on the Novaya Zemlya archipelago in the Arctic Ocean north of Russia, where it maintains a nuclear test site, said Timothy Wright ...

the first full-scale test was made of the implosion type atomic fission bomb. For the first time in history there was a nuclear explosion. And what an explosion! The bomb was not dropped from an ...

Joint test assembly units are not live weapons and they do not have the nuclear warhead, but they have the rest of the internal components. These serve multiple functions, such as governing the ...

The drills come as the head of a Kremlin-backed nuclear research centre called on Russia to "test an atomic bomb to intimidate the West", The Times reported. Mikhail Kovalchuk, head of the ...

(WDAM) - There’s no signpost marking Mississippi’s only nuclear test site. There’s no visitor ... that if they blew up atomic weapons in the air or on the ground or underwater, then it ...

a new study has been released that tracks the radioactive devastation wrought by the U.S. government’s first nuclear weapons test. The “Trinity” test, as it was secretly known, was the first ...

The test site also manages Stockpile Stewardship programs that protect the remaining nuclear weapons without full ... be used for peaceful purposes like dam construction or canals.