United Nations to study impact of nuclear war for first time since 1989 amid 'elevated risk'
With the world "on the brink of a potential nuclear war", scientists are trying to work out just how bad it would be.
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We Need a U.N. Study of the Effects of Nuclear War
A new United Nations expert study of the effects of nuclear war would spur informed and inclusive global debate on what ...
Survey shows nuclear taboo remains strong among Americans
The use of nuclear weapons is a red line that most Americans never again want to see crossed, according to a new survey from ...
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UN to conduct new study of the broad impacts of nuclear war. Not all countries want to know
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.
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Pacific push sees UN launch first nuclear war impact study in 35 years
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 ...
Karin Tanabe and Victoria Kelly: We need to change the way we educate Americans about the atomic bombs
For decades, Americans have been able to keep a comfortable distance from the disturbing visuals captured after the dropping ...
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We Need to Know Much More About the Nasty Effects of Nuclear War
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 ...
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Iran signals possible change in its nuclear doctrine and says it has the capacity to make nukes
Iran has the capacity to produce nuclear weapons and is prepared to change its policies on using them if faced with an ...
The Cost of a Nuclear Arsenal
Responses to an article in the “At the Brink” series, raising doubts about a huge overhaul of U.S. nuclear capacity.
Trillion dollar modernizing of America's nuclear arsenal underway
With undisguised pride, Los Alamos, N.M., the birthplace of the atomic bomb, announced on Oct. 2 the arrival of a new member ...
North Korea told the UN point-blank that it's speeding up nuclear weapons development
The UN Security Council met on Monday to confront North Korea on its new ICBM launch, to which Pyongyang said it would ...
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Discrimination haunts atomic bomb survivors
HIROSHIMA, Japan >> Having survived the atomic bomb that flattened his hometown of Hiroshima when he was nine months old, Kunihiko Sakuma has never forgotten the stain it left on him in the eyes of ...