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The threat of nuclear war never seems to go away, and now a new eerily-timed simulation shows what would happen in the first 30 minutes if the United States decided to start one.

After a widely shared AI simulation showed the catastrophic effect of a Russian strike, the Britain is once more at the heart of nuclear rumors. Visualiser3D’s YouTube video outlines the four “stages” ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...