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.

It would be a-crop-alyptic. Amid rising tensions around the world, Penn State University scientists have revealed what the fallout would be from a nuclear war — with an unfathomable famine, mass ...

AI is starting to make experts on nuclear deterrence very nervous. Specifically, they say that a widespread push to integrate AI into virtually every level of military decision-making is creating a ...

Today’s nuclear landscape is more precarious than during the Cold War July 3, 2025 at 5:16 p.m. EDT1 minute ago This page lists a series of articles by experts from the Federation of American ...

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 ...

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 ...

Back in the late 2000s, I was teaching a class on nuclear weapons to undergraduates who had mostly come of age after the fall of the Soviet Union. As I tried to explain what it was like to grow up ...

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 ...