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 ...

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

As the video illustrates, it doesn’t matter much who starts the war: when one side launches nuclear missiles, the other side detects them and fires back before impact. Ballistic missiles from U.S.

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 ...

Can Iran bomb the U.S.? Does Iran have nuclear weapons? These are the closest potential targets to Wilmington.

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.

The full-scope simulator for Phase I of the Lianjiang nuclear power plant - comprising two CAP1000 reactors - in China's Guangdong province has passed acceptance tests after having been installed ...