“Nowhere is truly ‘safe’ from fallout and other consequences like contamination of food and water supplies and prolonged radiation exposure.” That is the assessment of John Erath, the Senior Policy ...

If a large-scale nuclear exchange ever occurred, the United States would face wildly uneven consequences depending on geography, wind patterns, and agricultural capacity. No federal agency publishes ...

Fallout ghouls, the skinless, gravel-throated former humans which transform the Bethesda RPG into a zombie game any time they appear, can actually be explained using science, claims one microbiologist ...

A U.S. Atomic Energy Commission photograph from July 26, 1957 showing an individual using a Geiger counter to examine a green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) for potential radioactivity in the Republic of ...

Drizzle some radioactivity in your tea: Scientists say nuclear fallout from Cold War weapons testing is still showing up in U.S. honey today, and the secret to the lingering traces is a sneaky ...

As you wander through the irradiated wasteland of Fallout 76 looking for good loot and shooting at fellow survivors, you might wonder about the drastic mutations to the local flora and fauna caused by ...

In the atomic age, March winds and April showers also bring fallouts from the thin upper air. As spring crept over the Northern Hemisphere last week, scientists everywhere deployed their Geiger count ...