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 ...

According to a 2022 analysis, two island nations have been identified as the safest places during a nuclear winter due to ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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: ...

As the regional war in Iran continues to spiral into a broader, seemingly intractable crisis, a chilling specter has returned ...

A 2022 study analyzing 38 island nations has identified which countries would be safest during a nuclear winter, and it's ...

Rethinking nuclear radiation and its dangers is critical if the world is to turn away from hydrocarbon sources of energy. Many of us are seeing unwelcome spikes in our electric bills. This is due in ...

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

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 ...