In an era of nuclear tension, the U.S. kept bombers airborne with live nuclear weapons 24/7 under Operation Chrome Dome. This risky strategy resulted in accidental drops in places like Goldsboro, ...

Hot on the heels of Atomic Accidents, nuclear scientist Mahaffey devotes attention to another bevy of nuclear-related flops, failures, murders, thefts, and suicides.

This August marks 80 years since the United States detonated two atomic weapons over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. This gets a lot of attention in history books and the media, as it marks the end of ...

Russia's nuclear energy chief Alexei Likhachev said any attack on the plant could exceed “all known nuclear accidents in the history of mankind." ...

In the case of nuclear power, this question has a fascinating history. The anti-nuclear movement of the 1970s grew out of a deep suspicion of authority and institutions.

Forty-six years since the worst commercial nuclear accident in U.S. history, the Three Mile Island Generating Station has a much more positive glow — and not the threatening kind usually ...

What Happened in the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster? The 2011 Fukushima disaster was one of the most severe nuclear accidents in history.

History of Three Mile Island; the United States’ worst commercial nuclear accident This didn’t mark the end of nuclear power in the state, though.

Fourteen years since one of the worst nuclear accidents in history, Japan is getting creative in the effort to convince people that the contaminated soil is safe enough to be recycled.