If a large-scale nuclear exchange ever occurred, the United States would face wildly uneven consequences depending on geography, wind patterns, and agricultural capacity. No federal agency publishes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russia is still escalating its nuclear threats as the war in Ukraine goes on. If a nuclear bomb were headed toward the US, ...

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst investigated wind and weather patterns to predict the timeline of nuclear fallout, including the paths through which radiation would spread ...

The National Atomic Testing Museum (NATM) in Las Vegas has opened a Fallout-flavoured display featuring some of the IP’s most recognizable items. The new exhibit invites fans to wander the wasteland ...

Matt Korda, the associate director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists, assisted USA ...

(Corrections & Clarifications: This story previously misstated how far nuclear fallout from the government's atomic tests reached. Fallout from the initial Trinity Test reached 46 of the 48 contiguous ...

C ould nuclear bombs be harnessed to help people? As the Cold War raged on in the 1950s, scientists building nuclear weapons began to ponder whether they could be put toward posit ...

Alex Partezana was a 22-year-old Marine in April 1953 when he received an unusual order: to observe nuclear weapons testing in the desert outside Las Vegas, Nevada. He still remembers the first blast ...

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Nuclear weapons remain an ever-present threat. To date, only the US has ever dropped nuclear bombs on a population — in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Still, the number of nuclear warheads in ...