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

A new global coalition seizes the moment to campaign for a halt and reversal of the nuclear arms race. The risk of nuclear war is greater now than in decades—and rising. Russia is upgrading its ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Key Points and Summary: While Russia possesses the world's largest arsenal of tactical nuclear weapons and maintains an intentionally ambiguous doctrine, the actual use of these weapons in the Ukraine ...

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 ...

Despite happening (thankfully) just once in real life, nuclear warfare has long been a staple element of science fiction. Popular depictions of nuclear conflict—from biographic thrillers like ...

The symbolic Doomsday Clock is closest to midnight--the hour when a global catastrophe such as a nuclear war could erupt on the planet-- it has been since its inception about 78 years ago, after the ...

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 ...