At the core of the report’s assessment is the long-term biological impact of ionising radiation, the potential of radiation ...

Nuclear weapons testing has affected every single human on the planet, causing at least four million premature deaths from ...

From Pacific islands to global fallout, a new report traces how decades of nuclear testing left a silent health crisis that ...

How atomic fallout created demand for pre-1945 'low-background' steel in scientific instruments.

Even eighty years after the first nuclear bomb test, the consequences still haunt people all around the world. Radioactive fallout hasn’t just vanished; instead, it continues to affect the health of ...

A Princeton University simulation shows how a single low-yield nuclear weapon could rapidly spiral into a full-scale ...

How much will it cost to modernize the land leg of America’s nuclear arsenal?

Nuclear bomb effects computer in pocket. Also issued online. NASM copy: Circular computer lacking. MSRL copy "Changes as of Feb. 1964" inserted. 1. General principles of nuclear explosions -- 2.

Studies of the potential climate effects of nuclear war in the 1980s focused on northern hemisphere, large-scale nuclear conflicts, and predicted more extreme global “nuclear winter” scenarios.

USA TODAY reporters teamed up with a nuclear weapons historian to bring you the Nuclear Sponge series.