This was a primary nuclear explosion test site for the Soviet Union and its radioactive legacy is still present today.

Photo: Atomic bomb test explosion in Alamagordo ... The competition between the ideologically different nations led to an "arms race" that shaped the postwar decades both economically and ...

Gordon and Jonathan Rosenberg (eds), Cold War Statesmen Confront the Bomb: Nuclear Diplomacy since 1945 (1999). Eric Schlosser, Command and Control (London, 2013). Martin Sherwin, A World Destroyed: ...

A secret US nuclear weapons facility near Las Vegas may soon begin testing live bombs again as global tensions may be pushing countries into a new arms race ... of a nuclear bomb since 1992.

A new study sheds light on this ancient struggle, revealing the earliest known case of what scientists call an “evolutionary arms race ... during the Cambrian Explosion event.” ...