Talk about a powerhouse food. Like anything within its radius, food can also be susceptible to the effects of nuclear contamination, even decades after an event. But one food may actually protect ...

A full-scale nuclear war between the United States and Russia would kill more than 5 billion people from hunger alone, not ...

Radiation can wreak havoc on the human body when it's exposed to high doses or for prolonged periods of time. The world understood this in horrifying detail after the Chernobyl and Fukushima Daiichi ...

A terrifying map displays the devastating consequences a nuclear war would have on the US, highlighting the regions most at risk of lethal radioactive fallout. The US Air Force is currently developing ...

Suggested Citation: "8 Conclusion." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Potential Environmental Effects of Nuclear War. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: ...

Nine countries now possess nuclear weapons and we have just seen the start of a new war in the Middle East over one more ...

Iranian missiles struck near Israel’s Dimona nuclear site, injuring around 100 and escalating tensions. No damage or ...

With the talk of war, and nuclear threats up in the air, it makes you wonder what one would actually do if a nuclear ...

The DOE proposal rolling back a radiation safety standard may force Congress to weigh nuclear expansion against public health safeguards. A move by the Department of Energy to weaken a decades-old ...

At the outset of the Cold War era, the United States and the Soviet Union rapidly built up large nuclear arsenals as part of the prevailing doctrine of deterrence, under which each nation attempted to ...