Against a backdrop of increased tension among the world’s major powers, the risks and effects of nuclear war have received ...

Scientists in Pennsylvania reveal exactly what a nuclear winter would look like – with starvation for billions of people up to eight years after a global war. The experts say a nuclear winter – a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Kremlin plans to launch a propaganda campaign to resurrect concerns in the US about the dangers of a “nuclear winter” in an ...

When atmospheric chemists Paul Crutzen and John Birks added smoke into their computer models of nuclear war scenarios, they ...

Thirty-five years after the start of the nuclear age with the first explosion of an atomic bomb, I visited the expanse of desert known as the Nevada Test Site, an hour’s drive northwest of Las Vegas.