Commemorating the 27th anniversary of Pakistan’s first successful nuclear tests, its top leadership on Wednesday said the ...

In the early 1960s, nuclear tests went underground to protect people and the environment from dangerous radioactive fallout. In fact, somewhere in the maze of tunnels we're walking through is a ...

the U.S. and other nuclear powers signed a treaty to move nuclear weapons testing to tunnels deep underground. And that's where we're headed. We step into an old mining elevator... (SOUNDBITE OF ...

Russia, China and the United States all keep their nuclear test sites in at least a partial state of readiness. Satellite images show new buildings, ongoing work on tunnels, and a steady stream of ...

The test tunnel is shorter than the actual final disposal tunnels ... However, the canisters placed in the bedrock during the test will not contain used nuclear fuel, as the intention is to ensure ...

In the 1990s, nuclear testing largely ended with the arrival ... The PULSE facility consists of 2.3 kilometers of tunnels nearly 300 meters below the surface. There, a machine called Cygnus ...

Russia, the United States and China have all built new facilities and dug new tunnels at their nuclear test sites in recent years, CNN reported in 2023. Post-Soviet Russia has not carried out a ...

The Biden administration actively expanded the Nevada Test Site for nuclear devices, cutting roads and digging new tunnels to prepare for testing. Similar actions are occurring in Russia and China.

As India struck Pakistan’s air bases as part of Operation Sindoor, rumours emerged that the nation had hit Kirana Hills in Pakistan, which is believed to be a nuclear storage facility. However, the ...

Hidden in the vast steppes of Kazakhstan lies one of the most haunting remnants of the Cold War era—the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site. Once a top-secret location for the Soviet Union’s atomic ...