Nevada - Frenchman's Flat - Members of 11th AB Div. kneel on the ground to watch an atomic bomb test in 1951. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/ Universal Images Group via Getty Images) It’s the ...

Mary Dickson got thyroid cancer at 29 and only years later discovered it was caused by radioactive fallout from U.S. nuclear weapons tests. The government acknowledges downwinders throughout Utah, ...

Fallout from the Upshot-Knothole Harry test on May 19, 1953 spread radiation over Nevada and Utah, sparking long-term cancer and safety concerns. Here's how the Reno Evening Gazette reported on the ...

“They know they work. Why do they keep testing them.” This wasn’t a question. It was a statement my brother Maury Modine made as he was arrested during an anti-nuclear test demonstration in the ...

As Utah's largest ever wildfire scorched western Utah in July, radiation monitors outside the town of Milford began sounding alarms. Set up during the Cold War to alert residents to radiation escaping ...