The simmering conflict between Iran and Israel has sparked fears of a potential global war, with concerns mounting over the ...

Since then, its threat has shaped and justified global conflict. Both Iraq and Iran have been accused of seeking the bomb, ...

A minute-by-minute guide on how to survive a nuclear bomb attack, and ways to be prepared for war.

Some explosions triggered ... captured CNPP on the first day of the war as they pushed through the Exclusion Zone surrounding the plant in their initial thrust. More images of Russia's drone damaging ...

It would be a-crop-alyptic. Amid rising tensions around the world, Penn State University scientists have revealed what the fallout would be from a nuclear war — with an unfathomable famine, mass ...

This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on Aug. 06, 2025. It is shared here with permission. Eighty years ago, the U.S. dropped nuclear bombs on the civilian populations of Hiroshima and ...

Kathryn Bigelow's latest film, A House of Dynamite, examines how the US government would respond to a nuclear attack in ...

Growing up in Salt Lake City, Utah, in the 1950s and 60s, Mary Dickson was among the millions of American schoolchildren taught to “duck and cover” in the event of a nuclear war. “I just remember ...

Alex Wellerstein joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about nuclear science. Which nations have nuclear bombs? Who decides who gets to have nuclear warheads and who doesn't? Why were ...

Limited nuclear war is a possibility grounded in strategic logic and a probability accentuated by the current geopolitical and military context. Planning for limited nuclear war is necessary not only ...

The Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state produced plutonium for most of America's nuclear arsenal through the end ...