U.S. counties located closer to nuclear power plants have higher cancer mortality rates than those located farther away, ...

Suggested Citation: "8 Conclusion." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Potential Environmental Effects of Nuclear War. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: ...

New Delhi: A comprehensive new report by Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA), provided exclusively to AFP, concludes that nuclear weapons testing between 1945 and 2017 contributed to at least four million ...

Robert Peters is a Senior Research Fellow for Strategic Deterrence in Heritage’s Allison Center for National Security. The global security environment is deteriorating as America’s adversaries are ...

Studies of the potential climate effects of nuclear war in the 1980s focused on northern hemisphere, large-scale nuclear conflicts, and predicted more extreme global “nuclear winter” scenarios.