A comprehensive test ban was always the original intention of the treaty that eventually became the PTBT. It is "partial" in part because the U.S. and the USSR had so many conflicting stipulations...

Greenpeace is an international, nongovernmental, environmental, peace-seeking activist group. Whooo, that's quite the introduction, but one that's well-deserved. Greenpeace works on major issues li...

This ain't the kind of questionnaire that asks how many quarters you got for putting your tiny, discolored molar under a pillow. It's actually something far more troubling.The so-called "Baby Tooth...

Despite all the hubbub, not everyone was against the testing of nuclear weapons. In fact, some people were very much for it. The proponents of nuclear testing felt it was necessary to continue purs...

The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki crippled Japan. The loss of civilian life was extremely widespread and the structural damage complete. After the war ended, these sites of atomic warfa...