The first nuclear weapons were developed in the United States through the top secret Manhattan project
In 1945, the US used two nuclear weapons against the populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Since the nuclear age began, 2052 nuclear weapons have been detonated in testing programmes, releasing long-lived radioactive poisons into the air, land and water
Military personnel, soldiers, indigenous peoples, test site workers and the general public have been subjected to experiments on the effects of radiation
