From the “Blue Deck” built on higher land within the confines of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, the reactor buildings where a calamitous accident occurred are visible 80 to 100 meters away.

A website that lets users simulate a nuclear attack has seen an uptick in users amid the ongoing war with Iran.

We know that an all-out U.S.-Russia nuclear war would be bad. But how bad, exactly? How do your chances of surviving the explosions, radiation, and nuclear winter depend on where ...

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

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: ...

Nuclear bomb effects computer in pocket. Also issued online. NASM copy: Circular computer lacking. MSRL copy "Changes as of Feb. 1964" inserted. 1. General principles of nuclear explosions -- 2.

The Cold War ended in 1991. The United States’ commitment to prevent its adversaries’ nuclear ambitions and to extend its nuclear arsenal as an umbrella of protection to its partners has remained ...

Robert Peters is a Senior Research Fellow for Strategic Deterrence in Heritage’s Allison Center for National Security. The global security environment is deteriorating as America’s adversaries are ...

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.