Discussions about nuclear war often remain distant for many Americans, though past research attempted to calculate what such a disaster might mean across the United States. During the closing years of ...

A nuclear war is often imagined as a map of colors: red zones where survival seems impossible, orange zones where danger is extreme, yellow zones where life might continue under pressure, and green ...

Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory recreated part of the intense chaos inside a nuclear fireball to better understand how radioactive fallout forms. Their experiments revealed that ...

A nuclear fallout map was produced by experts for Scientific American. Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst investigated wind and weather patterns to predict the timeline of nuclear ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Nuclear Sponge is a five-part explanatory project by USA TODAY that aims to inform readers about the strategic debate and ...