Thousands of veterans who say they were sickened by radiation exposure during their military service have been denied federal benefits, the Department of Veterans Affairs said, as cancer and old age ...

WASHINGTON — Michael Cobb, a former Navy seaman, witnessed the detonation of more than 20 atomic bombs over Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean in 1962 and 1963. He and other active-duty service ...

WASHINGTON — A program to compensate uranium miners and people who lived downwind of nuclear bomb testing then developed certain cancers came to an end last summer, but Sens. Ben Ray Luján and Martin ...

Nine months have passed since the law that compensates US victims of radiation exposure expired in June, and yet another opportunity to reinstate it fell to the wayside last week. The Radiation ...

Protons give an atom its identity, electrons its personality,” is the way in which author Bill Bryson once colourfully described the fabric of all matter. It is an appropriate description of the ...

The American public has been concerned with radiation safety as far back as the tragic story of the “Radium Girls,” female factory workers who contracted radiation poisoning from painting watch dials ...

Last Sunday, Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster “Oppenheimer,” which tells the story of the development of the atomic bomb and the Trinity test in New Mexico, won a number of Academy Awards, including ...

An illustration titled 'What Radioactivity Is', with six panels' reading (top) 'Water in pond is 'stable,' it expends no energy,' water can be carried up-hill and its energy level raised,' 'as it runs ...

Cancer has always been a concern for humanity. The disease is evident in fossils and mummies, present in historical writings, and can be passed down from our ancestors. In fact, the oldest recorded ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs said it has granted about 570 of 4,100 claims as many radiation-exposed veterans die of cancer and old age. Thousands of veterans who say they were sickened by ...