A new global coalition seizes the moment to campaign for a halt and reversal of the nuclear arms race. The risk of nuclear war is greater now than in decades—and rising. Russia is upgrading its ...

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On the morning of 6 August 1945, in Hiroshima, Japan, a flash of light enveloped the sky so brightly that a 13-year-old boy, Ōiwa Kōhei, thought the Sun had fallen to Earth and landed in his mother’s ...

The Doomsday Clock — a symbolic arbiter of how close humanity is to annihilating itself — now sits at 89 seconds to midnight, nearer than it has ever been to signalling our species’ point of no return ...

On July 16, 1945, the first nuclear bomb exploded in the desert sands of New Mexico under the watchful gaze of Manhattan Project scientists. Known as the Trinity test, the blast marked the beginning ...

In “Preventing Nuclear War,” an essay published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, in 1981, the Harvard law professor Roger Fisher imagines a President in the White House, discussing nuclear ...

When the first nuclear bomb test took place 80 years ago, the scientists who gathered to observe the explosion in the New Mexico desert recognized they were playing with fire. Physicist Enrico Fermi ...

Russia has threatened the use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine while the Biden administration has continued to arm Ukraine and warn Russia against the use of nuclear weapons. The Trump administration has ...

At the end of the Cold War, global powers reached the consensus that the world would be better off with fewer nuclear weapons ...

Millions of people dead, buildings, bridges and other infrastructure collapse, and whatever remains standing is riddled with contamination and trauma. The words “nuclear war” hold an intensely ...

This weekend brings Halloween holidays, and that means everyone is looking for the best horror movies to watch. For our modern times and , here are 10 nuclear war movies for your Halloween watchlist.

Nuclear war is a pretty morbid topic that most people don't really like to think about because the prospect of it is just so scary to imagine. Granted, the chances of it happening now are quite a bit ...