On the occasion of Buddha Purnima, May 18, 1974, India surprised the world by conducting its first nuclear test at Pokhran, Rajasthan, under the codename Smiling Buddha. This historic event marked ...

Dr. Foster had joined physicist Edward Teller, known the father of the hydrogen bomb, in unsuccessfully opposing the Senate’s 1963 ratification of the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

Under the terms of the 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), all nuclear explosions are prohibited whether for military or peaceful purposes. In the review, Carmichael warned that his ...

These detectors, part of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) detection network, also pick up the rumble of a thunder or the ultrasonic booms generated by large pieces of ...

It is the preview of life’s coming attractions’. Elaborating further, Rauf also pointed out that the 1996 nuclear-test-ban treaty languishes and still is not in force, nuclear explosive testing ...

A doomsday prepper has compiled a detailed resource mapping America's nuclear fallout shelters, many dating to the Cold War. "It is more important than ever to take the power to start a nuclear ...

Earthquakes could be being used as cover for secret nuclear tests, a newly-published review article by leading seismologists has cautioned. The findings come as part of a review article by Joshua ...

Anti-nuclear groups have criticized subcritical nuclear tests as counter to the spirit of the 1996 Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty on nuclear arms. The U.S. Energy Department says the tests do not ...

India and Pakistan have not ratified the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), or the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).

1967 – The Tehran Nuclear Research Center, which includes a small reactor supplied by the United States, opens. 1968 – Iran signs the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Mid-1970s – With US ...