New scientific modeling reveals the shocking distances needed to survive a nuclear bomb explosion and its devastating effects ...

The front page of the Parkersburg News from Aug. 15, 1945. (Archive Image) Eighty years ago last week our country did something that had never been done before or since. They exploded an “atom bomb” ...

Eighty years ago, the US government carried out one of world imperialism’s most horrific war crimes: the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. The bombings, on August 6 and 9, 1945, ...

Alex Wellerstein joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about nuclear science. Which nations have nuclear bombs? Who decides who gets to have nuclear warheads and who doesn't? Why were ...

Few people know the harm nuclear testing can do better than inhabitants of the Marshall Islands which was a US-administered trust territory of the United Nations from 1947 to 1986.