As many as 550,000 U.S. military service members were exposed to radiation or participated in nuclear weapons tests that ...

(KUTV) – It's nickname is the ‘atomic trashcan’ and it was where thousands of veterans spent months to clean up the radioactive waste. Now, a group of Utah vets is joining a nationwide fight to expand ...

RICHLAND, Wash. - When Tim Snider arrived on Enewetak Atoll in the middle of the Pacific Ocean to clean up the fallout from dozens of nuclear tests on the ring of coral islands, Army officers ...

The only protective gear Paul Laird wore when the U.S. Army sent him to help scrub a remote South Pacific atoll of nuclear waste was a T-shirt he wrapped around his head. Laird was 20, and one of ...

Thousands of veterans who say they were sickened by radiation exposure during their military service have been denied federal benefits, the Department of Veterans Affairs said, as cancer and old age ...

On Runit Island in the Pacific Ocean, there are dome-shaped structures that look like tombs. It is said that 85,000 cubic meters of plutonium-239 is contained in it, not old remains. Of the 40 islands ...

Giant clams are a delicacy in the Marshall Islands but they've been found to contain high levels of plutonium — the remnants of a long history of American nuclear tests — prompting fears health issues ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Between 1946 and 1958, the United States waged nuclear war on ...

Few people know the harm nuclear testing can do better than inhabitants of the Marshall Islands which was a US-administered trust territory of the United Nations from 1947 to 1986.

A concrete dome filled with the debris of 43 nuclear explosions will be probed by experts amid mounting fears that it’s leaking radioactive waste into the world’s oceans. The US government has ...