At the start of the 21st century, several groups began efforts aiming not just to control nuclear weapons but to... more

Against the backdrop of heightened Cold War anxieties, the 1980s bore witness to a remarkable phenomenon: the Nuclear Freeze protest... more

From 1946 through 1958, the US detonated 67 nuclear weapons in the Marshall Islands, with an explosive force equal to... more

During the era of atmospheric nuclear testing, hundreds of thousands of American servicemen were made to participate in nuclear tests... more

In this episode, we look at the long-term impact of nuclear testing on the American citizens it was supposed to... more

In the race to develop the atomic bomb, Oppenheimer's Trinity test inadvertently exposed thousands of unsuspecting American citizens to toxic... more

With the Trinity Test, J. Robert Oppenheimer ushered in the atomic age, and a decade-long campaign of U.S. atmospheric nuclear... more

When the Cold War ended in 1992, there was great hope for the newly formed Russian Federation. But following a... more

In the 90s, Ukraine made the decision to dismantle the thousands of former Soviet nuclear weapons left on its territory.... more

In this episode, we hear the wrenching stories of two survivors of the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima. These two... more