Even eighty years after the first nuclear bomb test, the consequences still haunt people all around the world. Radioactive fallout hasn’t just vanished; instead, it continues to affect the health of ...

A Princeton University simulation shows how a single low-yield nuclear weapon could rapidly spiral into a full-scale ...

Sébastien Philippe, a nuclear engineering professor and 2025 MacArthur Fellow, designed advanced computational simulations of ...

“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 ...

The problem of defects is so big, there's even a museum of mutations at the regional medical institute back in Semey, the largest city near the old nuclear testing site. It's a small room filled with ...

On the Wednesday, January 7, 2026, episode of The Excerpt podcast: “The Nuclear Sponge” is a five-part project by USA TODAY ...

The U.S. nuclear weapon test Bravo (yield 15 Mt) on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, Mar. 1, 1954. Nowadays, nuclear “tests” are done via computers or laboratory scale experiments and do not ...

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.

Nuclear bomb effects computer in pocket. Also issued online. NASM copy: Circular computer lacking. MSRL copy "Changes as of Feb. 1964" inserted. 1. General principles of nuclear explosions -- 2.