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W e 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 you live?
What Western allies see as more likely is that Russia will use a so-called tactical nuclear weapon, which is less destructive and designed to strike targets over short distances to...
Nuclear War: A Scenario is the latest book by Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist Annie Jacobsen. As its title suggests, it’s structured like a drama, walking readers through what a nuclear war ...
How do researchers gauge the probability and severity of nuclear war? Catastrophic risk expert Seth Baum explains.
The scholars emphasized how close the Soviet Union and United States came to nuclear war during the Cuban missile crisis, as a result of several factors that so far aren’t at play today.
The most likely nuclear scenario is, I believe, an attack by Russia on a nuclear power station in Ukraine.
In a nuclear war, hundreds or thousands of detonations would occur within minutes of each other. Regional nuclear war between India and Pakistan that involved about 100 15-kiloton nuclear weapons launched at urban areas would result in 27 million direct deaths.
Despite decades of arms control agreements there are still about 13,000 nuclear warheads globally, 90% of them Russian and American. Six other countries are declared nuclear powers: the UK,...
This week, researchers report that an India–Pakistan nuclear war could lead to crops failing in dozens of countries — devastating food supplies for more than one billion people 1. Other...
The world has lurched a step closer to the prospect of nuclear war, say researchers, after Russia declared last month that it would suspend its participation in its last major nuclear-arms...