In a sense, U.S. nuclear weapons exist not to be used. And while nuclear threats seem far away, a tool from one group brings the scenario close to home.

On the morning of 6 August 1945, in Hiroshima, Japan, a flash of light enveloped the sky so brightly that a 13-year-old boy, Ōiwa Kōhei, thought the Sun had fallen to Earth and landed in his mother’s ...

There is a risk that the war of words between Moscow and DC could escalate. Ad Policy The 2025 Doomsday Clock time is displayed after the time reveal held by The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. “At the end of the Cold War, global powers reached the consensus that the world would be better off with fewer ...

In “Preventing Nuclear War,” an essay published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, in 1981, the Harvard law professor Roger Fisher imagines a President in the White House, discussing nuclear ...

On July 16, 1945, the first nuclear bomb exploded in the desert sands of New Mexico under the watchful gaze of Manhattan Project scientists. Known as the Trinity test, the blast marked the beginning ...

A fire rips through Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant after it was captured by invading Russian troops, who have also surrounded the site with explosive mines. This image of the ...

A new congressionally mandated report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine examines the potential environmental, social, and economic effects that could unfold over the ...

Nobel Laureates and leading nuclear experts gathered at the University of Chicago this week to discuss the continuing dangers of nuclear war and the need for prevention. Experts warned at a panel ...

Yet mainstream US media outlets and partisan politics are routinely oblivious to threat of oblivion. Ad Policy A missile is fired during a US and South Korea joint training exercise on May 25, 2022, ...