700 Nuclear Tests: How Russia Sent Cancerous Radiation Everywhere
The unofficial testing moratorium between the United States and Russia continues to hold—for now. Here's What You Need to Remember: The former Soviet republics have not acted to resume testing. All but Russia have renounced nuclear arms and turned over any inherited arsenals for disposal. Russia has shown little interest in further tests, instead concentrating on a new generation of delivery vehicles including the Bulava submarine-launched missile, Topol-MR mobile missile and Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile. The Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb in 1949, just four yea...