NAGASAKI, Aug 9 (Reuters) - Thousands bowed their heads in prayer in Nagasaki on Saturday to mark the 80th anniversary of the ...

Imagine, if you will, that for unknown reasons North Korea has just launched a nuclear bomb at the United States. What happens next?

Using data from Scientific American's previous maps of a nuclear attack in the US, Newsweek has created a map which looks at radiation exposure risk from a nuclear blast, in turn revealing the safest, ...

The idea that there can be a winner in a nuclear exchange rests on several assumptions: that the conflict can be contained, ...

Eighty years after the city’s destruction, we seem to be blundering into a new age of nuclear perils. It is time for culture ...

Nowhere is truly ‘safe’ from fallout and other consequences like contamination of food and water supplies and prolonged radiation exposure.” That is the assessment of John Erath, the Senior Policy ...

Scientists modeled nuclear winter—the global food collapse was worse than expected Researchers use Penn State’s Cycles agroecosystem model to predict how nuclear war ramifications would impact ...

A nuclear winter is a theoretical concept, but if the climate scenario expected to follow a large-scale nuclear war, in which smoke and soot from firestorms block sunlight, came to fruition ...

The Cold War prompted many bizarre plans—one British idea involved using live chickens to maintain nuclear landmines.

Davis Winkie: Nobel Prize winners and physicists have long considered themselves the guardians, so to speak, of the nuclear world, because of their pivotal role in the creation of the nuclear bomb.

The United States and Iran are poised to return to the negotiating table at a moment when tensions between the two are high and trust is low.