This genre began in the 1950s, when concern over nuclear weapons testing made movies about giant monsters popular.

In 1952, a program of British nuclear weapons testing began in Australia.

Residual plutonium from atmospheric nuclear weapons testing is dispersed widely in the environment.

Their path to the conclusions that nuclear proliferation and nuclear weapons testing must end is an honorable but well-trodden one.

In 1953, extensive above-ground nuclear weapons testing occurred at the test site, as part of Operation Upshot-Knothole.

Since then, US nuclear weapons testing had moved to Eniwetok Atoll to take advantage of generally larger islands and deeper water.

Threats to stop complying with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty as a protest against continued nuclear weapons testing did not materialize.

Uranium mining and milling, uranium conversion and enrichment, and nuclear weapons testing have all occurred on reservation lands in the past century.

The removal and subsequent nuclear weapons testing is seen by the tribe as a violation of the 1863 Western Shoshone Treaty of Ruby Valley.

A group of scientists are taken to a secluded island where nuclear weapons testing occurred in 1958, in order to investigate sightings of mutated animals, and allegations of a monster.

Later due to excessive US intelligence and satellite focus on the Kirana Hills site, it was abandoned and nuclear weapons testing was shifted to the Kala Chitta Range.

Radioactive fallout from nuclear weapons testing was first drawn to public attention in 1954 when a Hydrogen bomb test in the Pacific contaminated the crew of the Japanese fishing boat Lucky Dragon.

Congress Insistence Cited The official and some others who argued that nuclear weapons testing be resumed said they had been influenced in part by Congress's new insistence that no tests at all be allowed after 1996.

Powers records his feelings, and his last interviews with his therapist, in a journal in which he also records strange epigrams, such as "Goodbye, Eniwetok" - an allusion suggesting that increased levels of background radiation from nuclear weapons testing may somehow be responsible for mankind's predicament.

In the early half of the twentieth century, the burning of fossil fuel such as coal, in which the 14C had totally decayed away, diluted the atmospheric 14C concentration relative to 13C and 12C. Nuclear weapons testing had an even more dramatic effect on atmospheric 14C content.

"One day you will give us thanks for our nuclear test."

"And all they pay us back with is this nuclear test."

However in 2009 the North continued its nuclear test program.

The nuclear test may force Washington to pick a strategy.

We must first check if any such nuclear test was carried out.

There were 210 French nuclear tests from 1960 until 1996.

China conducted a nuclear test that it said would be one of its last.

President Clinton would do well to ban all nuclear tests now.

China carried out a nuclear test on October 5 last year.

There have been over 2,000 nuclear tests conducted since 1945.

The major challenge came in May 1998 - dealing with the nuclear test.

At first, it was believed to be a hidden nuclear test.

But the older guys will say that nothing can really replace a live nuclear test.

She has continued with activities to try to end nuclear testing and programs at the site.

He makes travel plans, looking for a place where nuclear testing has been done.

Pakistan, they said, may now carry out a nuclear test of its own for the same reason.

My group and I of course condemn these nuclear tests.

Political pressure for a nuclear test is building among India's right wing.

If possible, the effort is to proceed without nuclear testing.

Used to monitor Chinese nuclear tests between 1970 and 1980.

Nuclear testing has also been used for clearly political purposes.

There is also the issue of nuclear testing in the Pacific.

"But after the nuclear test, we are only allowed to sit alone in our trucks."

Third world countries insisted on a total nuclear test ban within five years.

At least one detectable nuclear test also would be required.