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 ...

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The energy shock from the Iran war is boosting ...

Against a backdrop of increased tension among the world’s major powers, the risks and effects of nuclear war have received ...

After winning a Breakthrough Prize, the world’s most lucrative science award, theoretical physicist David Gross is using the moment to warn of nuclear war’s existential threat—and how we can escape it ...

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 ...

Nuclear war scenario explores how global strikes would impact different regions, dividing the world into danger zones based on direct hits and radiation spread. Major powers would be primary targets, ...

As tensions in the Middle East between the US-Israel alliance and Iran escalate with each passing day, the genuine possibility of nuclear conflict weighs heavily on global consciousness. Multiple ...

In the many-sided conflict now underway against Iran (i.e., simultaneous and complementary operations led by the United States and Israel),[1] little concern has been expressed for a nuclear war. To ...

In 1984, HBO debuted the made-for-TV film Countdown to Looking Glass. Now, 38 years later, renewed tensions between the United States and Iran — including threats to shipping in the Strait of Hormuz ...

The 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster fueled global fears about nuclear energy and slowed down its development in Europe and other regions ...