Tag Archive for ‘nuclear testing’
International Day Against Nuclear Testing
By Annie Jennings, WAND Nuclear Security Research Fellow In 2009, August 29th was declared the International Day Against Nuclear Testing. This year, August 29th also marks the 20th anniversary of the shutdown of the former Soviet Union’s largest and most destructive nuclear weapons test site in Kazakhstan. Over its 40 year history, the Semipalatinsk site [...]
July 16th: The anniversary of the first nuclear test and an op ed asking for action
Saturday, July 16 marks the 66th anniversary of the first nuclear weapons test explosion. The United States’ test, code-named “Trinity,” was exploded in the desert of New Mexico and ignited the nuclear age. Nuclear testing has fueled the arms race, enabling varied and ever more deadly nuclear arsenals to grow. Along the way, nuclear testing [...]
Entries(RSS)