Nine countries now possess nuclear weapons and we have just seen the start of a new war in the Middle East over one more nation supposedly trying to acquire them. While we consider the dangers of such ...

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

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

According to a 2022 analysis, two island nations have been identified as the safest places during a nuclear winter due to their geography, food systems, and infrastructure ...

Nuclear “non-proliferation” – preventing the spread of nuclear weapons beyond states that already have them – has been held up as the rationale for the US-Israeli war on I ...

As the regional war in Iran continues to spiral into a broader, seemingly intractable crisis, a chilling specter has returned to the forefront of global anxiety: the threat of nuclear weapons. Indeed, ...

Demonstrators hold a mass meeting at Swaffham, Norfolk, England on Dec. 6, 1958, in protest against the setting up of missile bases in Britain. The banner appearing above crowd reads, people of every ...

On the Tuesday, February 10, 2026, episode of The Excerpt podcast: For the first time in over half a century, there are no nuclear arms controls in place between the world’s two largest nuclear powers ...

President Donald Trump's comments Thursday suggesting the United States will restart its testing of nuclear weapons upends decades of American policy in regards to the bomb, but come as Washington's ...

Potential U.S. adversaries worldwide are using intentionally hardened facilities to conceal and protect their leaders, military and industrial personnel, weapons, equipment, and other assets and ...