There has not been a major (or minor) nuclear explosion since the 1960s. This is almost entirely because ...

Talk about a powerhouse food. Like anything within its radius, food can also be susceptible to the effects of nuclear ...

Scientific knowledge about the damaging effects of nuclear-weapons testing helped to end such tests. Those findings haven’t changed.

During the late 1970s, the United States developed a nuclear weapon designed not to flatten cities but to kill the people ...

If the U.S. does drop a powerful "bunker buster" bomb on a suspected underground nuclear weapons site in Iran, experts in radiation hazards say there is little risk of widespread contamination. As we ...

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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A recent Chinese military study reported on Sunday says using three precision-guided warheads is more effective at destroying ...

Representatives of various groups, including one that earned a Nobel Peace Prize, gathered at an interfaith event in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to call for nuclear disarmament worldwide. Hosted by the ...

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