Israel's brazen assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists marks a bold escalation in a decades-old tactic. History suggests ...

Enewetak Atoll is a circular rim of coral consisting of 40 islands in the western Pacific Ocean. The atoll was held by Japan from 1914 until its capture by the United States during World War II.

The cloud rose over the Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands on November 1, 1952 at 7:15 am (local time). It was the ...

I n 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 ...

About 6,000 service members worked at Enewetak Atoll, while nearly 1,500 served in Spain and more than 850 responded to the fire in Greenland, said the VA and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.

Sea turtles of Enewetak Atoll. Much of the world’s radioactive contamination comes from tests conducted by world powers racing to develop powerful weapons during the 20th century.

The mushroom cloud from a nuclear bomb test rises above the Pacific Ocean over the Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands on Nov. 1, 1952. (Los Alamos National Laboratory/AP) Analysis by Philip ...

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.

Veterans who helped test nuclear weapons are fighting to renew a 34-year-old law meant to help compensate for the long-term health effects of their work.