Think of a nuclear weapons test and you might visualize a mushroom cloud over the desert. DETROW: But for the past 30 years, the U.S. has been running its tests using computers. NPR's Geoff ...
This marked one of the most significant nuclear test sites in the nation. The test began with the detonation of "Shot Able," a 1-kiloton bomb as part of Operation Ranger between 1951 and 1992.
WASHINGTON — A program to compensate uranium miners and people who lived downwind of nuclear bomb testing then developed certain cancers came to an end last summer, but Sens. Ben Ray Luján and ...