There has not been a major (or minor) nuclear explosion since the 1960s. This is almost entirely because ...

A website that lets users simulate a nuclear attack has seen an uptick in users amid the ongoing war with Iran.

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

If the U.S. does drop a powerful "bunker buster" bomb on a suspected underground nuclear weapons site in Iran, experts in radiation hazards say there is little risk of widespread contamination. As we ...

Speaking before the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, Russian ambassador Gennady Gatilov decried US President Donald Trump's announcement last year that his country was prepared to stage its first ...

During the late 1970s, the United States developed a nuclear weapon designed not to flatten cities but to kill the people ...

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.

Talk about a powerhouse food. Like anything within its radius, food can also be susceptible to the effects of nuclear ...

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Editor’s note: “Behind the News” is the product of Sun staff assisted by the Sun’s AI lab, which includes a variety of tools such as Anthropic’s Claude, Perplexity AI, Google Gemini and ChatGPT. On ...

At the outset of the Cold War and the dawn of the era of nuclear competition, the United States and the Soviet Union worked quickly to develop large stockpiles of weapons and to demonstrate the power ...