Inside "Fire Station Number 1" at the Army’s National Reactor Testing Station in Idaho, United States, the siren sounds at 9:01 pm on January 3, 1961. A false alarm had been raised twice before in the ...

On January 3, 1961, a small military reactor in Idaho exploded, killing three men and marking America’s first fatal nuclear accident. President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” tax-and-spending bill ...