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

Japan has brought the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power station back to full operation after resolving an alarm malfunction that had raised fresh questions about safety at the world’s largest atomic ...

The Philippines is confronting a new kind of security worry offshore, after scientists detected traces of nuclear material in the West Philippine Sea. The findings have prompted officials and ...

When atmospheric chemists Paul Crutzen and John Birks added smoke into their computer models of nuclear war scenarios, they ...

Erin D. Dumbacher is the Stanton nuclear security senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. The U.S. military joined Israel’s bombing campaign against Iran on June 21, targeting nuclear sites ...

Studies of the potential climate effects of nuclear war in the 1980s focused on northern hemisphere, large-scale nuclear conflicts, and predicted more extreme global “nuclear winter” scenarios.

Following a three-day conference at the University of Chicago, on July 16 a group including 13 Nobel laureates and 40 nuclear experts issued an urgent appeal to world leaders: Return to diplomacy now ...