Top university scientists created a map simulation of who across North America would be impacted by nuclear fallout in the event of a nuclear explosion ...

A nuclear blast is often imagined as a single instant of destruction. In reality, for many farther from the explosion, danger would unfold over hours and days as fallout traveled with wind and weather ...

A new analysis based on an online simulation tool is raising fresh questions about where Americans might be safest if a nuclear war ever happened. The study points to a handful of U.S. states that ...

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According to Payne, the models escalated to the point of tactical nuclear war in 95 percent of scenarios, noting that nuclear threats to each other were far more likely to escalate than de-escalate ...

The modelling, based on a potential Russian strike on U.S. missile facilities, suggests some regions could be less affected ...

We know that an all-out U.S.-Russia nuclear war would be bad. But how bad, exactly? How do your chances of surviving the explosions, radiation, and nuclear winter depend on where ...

With a new war comes new fears of World War III or possibly even a nuclear war. Here are 11 disaster supply items to have and ...

Next month it will have been 80 years since the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were devastated by nuclear attacks. More than 200,000 people – mostly citizens – would die by the year's end ...

Social media-fueled theories of World War 3 have raised questions over what US states are safe should nuclear war happen.

If the bomb detonated at or near ground level, a towering mushroom cloud would form, sucking up soil, steel, concrete, and whatever remains of the people and buildings below. That cloud wouldn’t just ...