As global concern over nuclear tensions periodically resurfaces, one of the world’s leading historians of nuclear weapons has broken down, in stark detail, what a human would experience during an atom ...

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Vladimir Putin's recent threats of nuclear weapon use are deeply concerning. A nuclear war would have catastrophic consequences, both short and long-term, including radiation-induced cancers. However, ...

We asked Professor Paul Bracken, an expert in nuclear strategy, what’s behind the posturing and what test explosions would mean for the world.

Against this backdrop, I can’t stop thinking about a scene in the new film “A House of Dynamite.” A clean-cut U.S. Navy ...

In a sense, U.S. nuclear weapons exist not to be used. And while nuclear threats seem far away, a tool from one group brings ...

On Nov. 13, 1972, Terry Christensen was working in his office at Dixon Inc. on Orchard Mesa when he, like others, “felt the tremor.” He added. “We went out and ...

The UK is at risk of a nuclear attack as the US is set to house nuclear weapons in Suffolk, England, which would make the ...

Few people know the harm nuclear testing can do better than inhabitants of the Marshall Islands which was a US-administered trust territory of the United Nations from 1947 to 1986.

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