For four decades, a stretch of Nevada desert was synonymous with nuclear firepower. Between 1951 and 1992, the U.S.

Nevada's elected officials are concerned that nuclear weapons may again be tested here, after President Donald Trump declared on Truth Social on Oct. 29 that tests should resume immediately.

Thomas Hunt, M.D., associate professor of family and community with the University of Nevada School of Medicine and Nevada program director for the Radiation Exposure Screening and Education Program ...

President Donald Trump’s call to resume U.S. nuclear weapons testing prompted quick condemnation from some Nevada congressional Democrats. It’s unclear exactly what directive Trump gave in a Wednesday ...

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — Before Las Vegans were entertained by the erupting volcano of The Mirage, the pirate show at Treasure Island or the dancing fountains of the Bellagio, they had the mushroom clouds ...

U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto and Senator Jacky Rosen, both Democrats from Nevada, have reintroduced the Nuclear Waste Informed Consent Act, aiming to prevent nuclear waste storage at Yucca ...

hings have a grand scale out here. The Nuclear Test Site adjacent to this mountain is bigger than Rhode Island but smaller than Nellis Air Force Base, which also is adjacent. But the biggest thing is ...

Nevada Reps. Susie Lee and Mark Amodei will introduce legislation Tuesday aimed to increase protection of the country’s nuclear assets by ensuring that drones cannot fly over areas where nuclear ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Researchers say they detonated an underground explosion comparable to nearly 2.5 tons of TNT in a vast former nuclear testing range in the Nevada desert north of Las Vegas. A ...