MIT professor Susan Solomon discusses the National Academies study on the environmental impacts of nuclear war, and how it made her realize the importance of the science of rising smoke and fuel loads ...

As the threat of a nuclear war intensifies, the terrifying reality of what could happen after the bombs explode may cause more fear than the initial cataclysm. For decades, worst-case scenarios have ...

Food security expert Florian Ulrich Jehn explains how nuclear war would impact the global food trade, arguing that it is 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.

Annie Jacobsen warns that the world would have a 72-minute countdown if a nuke was launched (Image: Getty) The entire world would have a roughly 72-minute window from a nuclear launch to a devastating ...

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With the Doomsday Clock as close to midnight as ever before and comparative nuclear arsenals being discussed more on the news than in an episode of The Americans, there’s no better time to get ...