A new United Nations expert study of the effects of nuclear war would spur informed and inclusive global debate on what ...

With the world "on the brink of a potential nuclear war", scientists are trying to work out just how bad it would be.

The use of nuclear weapons is a red line that most Americans never again want to see crossed, according to a new survey from ...

China is the only nuclear-weapon state to have voted in favor of a new UN study on the effects of nuclear war last week.

While Iran downplayed the attack’s impact, U.S. and Israeli officials assert ... strike carried out to prevent enemies from ...

The last U.N. mandated study on the effects of nuclear war was published in 1988, with a focus on climate change. At the time ...

For decades, Americans have been able to keep a comfortable distance from the disturbing visuals captured after the dropping ...

The resolution would set up a panel of independent scientific experts to examine the “physical effects and societal consequences of a nuclear war.” An updated study would go beyond the effects of ...

Iran has the capacity to produce nuclear weapons and is prepared to change its policies on using them if faced with an ...

Responses to an article in the “At the Brink” series, raising doubts about a huge overhaul of U.S. nuclear capacity.

With undisguised pride, Los Alamos, N.M., the birthplace of the atomic bomb, announced on Oct. 2 the arrival of a new member ...

The UN Security Council met on Monday to confront North Korea on its new ICBM launch, to which Pyongyang said it would ...