This site handled (or was contaminated by) nuclear tests, according to government records. The Department of Energy initially considered cleaning up this site under the Formerly Utilized Sites ...

FILE - This file photo from June of 1971 shows the exterior of a fallout shelter built for 200 people on Amchitka Island, Alaska, the site of nuclear bomb testing in the 1960s and 1970s. The U.S.

A 30-year-old legacy from the Cold War has surfaced on a remote Alaskan island, where scientists and Aleutian natives are concerned that radiation from the largest nuclear weapons blast ever conducted ...

In 1971, during the height of the Cold War, the United States carried out one of its most controversial underground nuclear ...

An independent consortium of university-based environmental scientists announced today the results from three 2004 expeditions to Amchitka Island in the western Aleutians to assess radionuclides in ...

Amchitka Island sits at the midway point on the great arc of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, less than 900 miles across the Bering Sea from the coast of Russia. Amchitka, a spongy landscape of maritime ...

Remote places all over the world can be explored at a click thanks to Google Maps. The website allows users to go wherever they like and see more of the planet from the comfort of their own home. But ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The latest round of testing on Alaska's remote Amchitka Island found no radioactive material has leaked from locations where the federal government conducted underground ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The latest round of testing on Alaska’s remote Amchitka Island found no radioactive material has leaked from locations where the federal government conducted underground ...