A new analysis based on an online simulation tool is raising fresh questions about where Americans might be safest if a nuclear war ever happened. The study points to a handful of U.S. states that ...

Artificial intelligence models from Google, OpenAI and Anthropic resorted to nuclear escalation in 95 per cent of simulations when placed in charge of nuclear-armed powers, according to the research ...

A nuclear blast is often imagined as a single instant of destruction. In reality, for many farther from the explosion, danger would unfold over hours and days as fallout traveled with wind and weather ...

The modelling, based on a potential Russian strike on U.S. missile facilities, suggests some regions could be less affected ...

We know that an all-out U.S.-Russia nuclear war would be bad. But how bad, exactly? How do your chances of surviving the explosions, radiation, and nuclear winter depend on where ...

If the bomb detonated at or near ground level, a towering mushroom cloud would form, sucking up soil, steel, concrete, and whatever remains of the people and buildings below. That cloud wouldn’t just ...

The full-scope simulator for Phase I of the Lianjiang nuclear power plant - comprising two CAP1000 reactors - in China's Guangdong province has passed acceptance tests after having been installed ...