Runit Island in the Enewetak Atoll was one of the most radioactively contaminated sites in the archipelago. Eleven nuclear ...

“They’re waiting for us to die,” said Kenneth Brownell, 66, who was one of the first soldiers sent to clean up Enewetak Atoll islands in the Pacific Ocean, where the U.S. conducted 43 ...

Jackson’s home island is Enewetak Atoll, where the United States tested 43 nuclear bombs from 1948 to 1958. Mushroom cloud forms over Bikini Lagoon in the Marshall Islands, May 1946. In the past ...

Sea turtles around Enewetak Atoll show nuclear signature from U.S. weapons testing decades before. They are just one of many animals to be affected by humans’ nuclear legacy. For sea turtles ...

It was detonated in a test codenamed Ivy Mike at Enewetak Atoll in November 1952, yielding 10.4 megatons of TNT, the measurement that quantifies the force of nuclear weapons. Garwin's role had ...

The impact of nuclear disasters throughout history can still be seen in the environment today. Animals in areas near nuclear disasters are being found with radiation still in their bodies.

In 1978, from my station at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, I received the order to deploy to the Marshall Islands to assist with the Enewetak Atoll Radiological Cleanup Project. I was assured ...