The largest underground nuclear test conducted by the United States, Project Cannikin was one of three underground nuclear tests performed at different places on this 43-mile long island in the ...

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 ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The test led to the establishment of Greenpeace, whose first major action was to protest the Cannikin nuclear test. On Nov. 6, 1971, the United States conducted its ...

In 1971, during the height of the Cold War, the United States carried out one of its most controversial underground nuclear experiments under Project Cannikin on Amchitka Island. The operation was ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. When a large earthquake shook Alaska's Aleutian Islands in 2014, scientists with the US government ...

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 ...

Within a few days the tiny island of Amchitka in the Aleutians will be rocked by a five-megaton underground weapons test. The nuclear blast, codenamed Cannikin, and the largest ever undertaken by the ...

The direct action campaign against nuclear testing in Amchitka Island began with an organization called the Society for Pollution and Environmental Control (SPEC), which grew from a group of ...

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 ...