In a YouTube video, WIRED interviewed Alex Wellerstein, a professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology, in order to find out more about the sequence of events and physical effects produced by a ...

An expert has shared five crucial steps to survive a nuclear blast, from drop and cover to decontamination, as fears of World ...

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. “I’m not sure if it was the effect of the atomic bomb, but I have always had a weak body, and when I was born, the ...

Half a world apart, the Tri-Cities in Washington and Nagasaki in Japan are linked forever by the birth of the Atomic Age. In the community that became the Tri-Cities, workers raced during World War II ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The NORAD Cheyenne Mountain Complex dates back to the height of the Cold War. Initially meant for defense against long-range ...

“Atomic blast today,” announced The Aspen Times on Sept. 4, 1969. “Project Rulison, a 40-kiloton nuclear blast set to be detonated 8442 feet underground about 60 miles northeast of Aspen, was expected ...

If anything, the widespread lack of comprehension (and so protest) is one big reason nuclear war remains so chillingly possible. A missile is fired during a US and South Korea joint training exercise ...

Life After the Atomic Blast, as Told by Hiroshima’s Survivors Eighty years after the dropping of the first atomic bomb, Hiroshima’s survivors and their descendants describe how health problems and ...