Nuclear war is one of the world’s greatest existential threats, so why isn’t there more psychological research on it?

Editor’s note: This is part of the “Nuclear winter: Why study it now?” series. In November of 1981, atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen and I sat in his office at the Max Planck Institute in Mainz, ...

Researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) are attempting to understand what happens during ...

A frightening simulation has shown the impact Russia's new nuclear missile could have on the United States. It was recently revealed that Vladimir Putin confirmed he had successfully tested the new ...

In 1983, the film "WarGames" imagined a teenager who accidentally accessed a Pentagon computer system and triggered a simulation program, subsequently interpreted as the prelude to a nuclear war. The ...

As the threat of a nuclear war intensifies, the terrifying reality of what could happen after the bombs explode may cause more fear than the initial cataclysm. For decades, worst-case scenarios have ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The 1945 Trinity nuclear test fused desert sand and bomb-tower materials into trinitite—a glassy substance unlike anything humans had created before.

Foreign experts regularly scrutinize Chinese population trends, including its pronounced inability to get the birth rate up the to 2.1 children per mother, which keeps population size about even. The ...

MIT professor Susan Solomon discusses the National Academies study on the environmental impacts of nuclear war, and how it made her realize the importance of the science of rising smoke and fuel loads ...

The mystery of how a Russian cargo ship sank deepened after it was revealed that the vessel suffered multiple explosions while allegedly carrying two nuclear reactors believed to be bound for North ...