Although the atomic bomb hasn't been used in war since it was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the possibility of its ...

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

I was 13 years old on Aug. 9, 1945, when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. We lived less than two ...

In the wake of the blast, these eerie shadows were left etched into surfaces across the city—almost like a photo negative of ...

As the world remembers the victims of Hiroshima, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi warns of a growing global ...

The world entered its nuclear epoch 80 years ago on August 6, 1945. The US dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of ...

The average age of survivors is now 86 and some fear their stories will die with them, while warnings have been issued about ...

On July 16, 1945, the United States conducted the world’s first-ever nuclear test, known as the Trinity test, in the desert of New Mexico. This test marked a watershed moment in history, not only ...

With the number of survivors rapidly declining and their average age now exceeding 86, this year's anniversary is considered the last milestone event for many of them.

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.