Humanity has grown closer to global disaster in the past year, with the Doomsday Clock moving to 89 seconds to midnight.

What would a “nuclear winter ... Earth’s atmosphere after the detonation of nuclear weapons predicted that more than five billion people could die from a war between the U.S. and Russia.

A single warhead can demolish a city center. A full-fledged nuclear war would threaten life as we know it. But with the right policies and safeguards, we can help protect against mistakes, accidents, ...

Back in 1984, the BBC broadcast an apocalyptic TV film about World War 3 that terrified audiences. Nominated for seven BAFTAs, Threads imagined a nuclear war between NATO and the Warsaw Pact.

“Bunkers are, in fact, not a tool to survive a nuclear war, but a tool to allow a population to psychologically endure the possibility of a nuclear war.” After ... our way of life would ...

Two superpowers had emerged from World War II, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., and they spent the years after 1945 racing to develop ever more powerful nuclear weapons. By the 1960s both sides had ...

said on Sunday that a nuclear war with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) almost began under President Joe Biden. More Contributor/Getty Images Medvedev's remarks come after the U.S. is ...

If there were any historians left on earth after a nuclear war to tell the story, they would decry the utter recklessness and folly of our military and political leaders who thought we could go on ...