With the world holding arsenals of nuclear weapons, the risk of nuclear war is always present. Tensions have been rising with Russian threats around the war in Ukraine. Here's what could happen to six ...

Nuking the city of New York was terrifyingly easy and disturbingly informative. From the bank of the Hudson River in Hoboken, New Jersey, while gazing out at the Manhattan skyline, I simply moved my ...

Nuclear weapons may be humanity's most terrifying creations, but most people would be hard-pressed to say what, exactly, such an explosion might do to their town or city. To help the public get a ...

A man who lived near an atomic bomb test site in the former Soviet Union is developing an advanced simulation tool to raise awareness about the risks of nuclear war. Ivan Stepanov is a simulation ...

Vladimir Putin has not been shy about suggesting that Russia’s nuclear arsenal could come into play as his invasion of the Ukraine flounders, and with Sweden and Finland looking to join NATO.

Inspired by rising tensions with North Korea, I have taken to blowing myself up with a nuclear war simulator. Yes, you read that right. “Nukemap,” the creation of Alex Wellerstein, a historian of ...