In October 1964, the People’s Republic of China detonated its first atomic bomb under the code name Project 596 at the Lop Nur test site. Developed after the collapse of Soviet assistance, the program ...
Editor’s note: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists presents here, from its September 1946 issue, an eyewitness account of the first atomic bomb test in the Marshall Islands. In it, the author not ...
Operation Crossroads was designed to show what atomic weapons could do to a fleet at anchor and whether warships could still ...