Discussions about nuclear war often remain distant for many Americans, though past research attempted to calculate what such a disaster might mean across the United States. During the closing years of ...

A Newsweek map shows the safest states to live in during a simulated nuclear attack on U.S. silo fields, according to a scientific study, although experts have warned that "nowhere is truly safe" in ...

The modelling, based on a potential Russian strike on U.S. missile facilities, suggests some regions could be less affected than others, though experts stress that nowhere would be truly safe, reports ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A simulation called "Plan A" produced by researchers shows how the use of one so-called tactical or low-yield nuclear weapon could ...

NORTH CHARLESTON — It's the nightmare no one in the military wants to imagine: a crisis aboard a nuclear-powered submarine or vessel. If that does ever happen, it’s likely that the military men and ...

The sobering four-minute video produced by experts at Princeton University’s Program on Science and Global Security, depicts deadly nuclear bombs raining down on major population centres on both sides ...

The National Museum of the US Air Force features a Minuteman II missile procedures trainer where crews practiced launching ...

Food security expert Florian Ulrich Jehn explains how nuclear war would impact the global food trade, arguing that it is not ...

In multiple replays of a wargame simulation, OpenAI’s most powerful artificial intelligence chose to launch nuclear attacks. Its explanations for its aggressive approach included “We have it! Let’s ...