UN spotlights nuclear weapon states' refusal to ratify test ban treaty at divisive time

UNITED NATIONS — With the U.S., Russia, China and other countries that have nuclear weapons refusing to ratify the treaty ...
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Scientists were testing nuclear weapons in '54, then something went very wrong

Back in the 1950s the US was testing a lot of nuclear weapons, but one test in particular gained infamy for just how wrong ...

New Mexico's Tina Cordova addresses United Nations on downwinders, nuclear testing legacy

When the world’s first atomic bomb sent searing light across the Jornada del Muerto desert in 1945, Anastacio Cordova of Tularosa was only 4 years old — a boy who drank water from cisterns and ...
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UN chief calls on nuclear states to halt tests on International Day Against Nuclear Tests

UN chief António Guterres urged nuclear states to uphold testing moratoria and ratify the CTBT as the world marked the ...
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Utah researchers peer into the nuclear testing history kept in our fingernails

A Salt Lake City artist’s mother grew up near the Nevada Test Site. After her death, a surprising finding in her remains ...
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Holy See to UN: Nuclear testing harms more than one generation

A report by Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) showed that more than 2,000 nuclear tests took place between 1945 and 2017—both ...

In 1953, Britain detonated an atomic bomb in Australia, sending a mysterious black mist across the desert before a secret programme began testing children’s bones fo…

During the Cold War, Britain undertook covert nuclear tests in Australia, leading to hazardous radioactive fallout termed the ...
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17 years after Africa became a nuclear weapon-free zone, Nigeria tells the UN it has never pursued nuclear arms

Seventeen years after Africa formally became a nuclear-weapons-free zone, Nigeria has reaffirmed that it has never possessed ...
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An end to nuclear weapons and testing

Nuclear bombings and tests cause lasting human and environmental harm; we must heed survivors' warnings and work towards a ...
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Nuclear bomb test veterans were victims of one of ‘greatest scandals in Britain’, says ex-defence minister

Exclusive: Tobias Ellwood says he gave MPs inaccurate information in 2018 provided by his department, the MoD ...
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The A-bomb: 60 years on, is the world any safer?

“I AM become death, the shatterer of worlds.” These words from the Hindu scripture, Bhagavad Gita, flashed through physicist Robert Oppenheimer’s mind as he watched the first atomic bomb test in a ...