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 ...

Nuclear war is much more unpredictable than asteroids, but, unlike the dinosaurs of 66 million years ago, humans can avoid ...

A nuclear winter is a theoretical concept, but if the climate scenario expected to follow a large-scale nuclear war, in which smoke and soot from firestorms block sunlight, came to fruition, global ...

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.

Annie Jacobsen warns that the world would have a 72-minute countdown if a nuke was launched (Image: Getty) The entire world would have a roughly 72-minute window from a nuclear launch to a devastating ...

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 ...

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 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Tulsi Gabbard, the U.S. director of national intelligence, published a ...