March 1 st , 2004 marks the 50 th anniversary of the 1954 US "Bravo" hydrogen bomb test on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands that unexpectedly turned out to be the largest US nuclear test ever exploded. "Bravo" gouged a crater about a mile wide in the reef of Bikini Atoll. Within seconds of the…
The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation has released its Top Five List of
Nuclear Events for 2001. Topping the list is the US notice of withdrawal
from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. The second spot on the list is
the US boycott of an international conference to speed up entry into force
of…
