CONTENT WARNING: This article contains descriptions of nuclear weapons effects, including disturbing accounts of the victims. On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped the first atomic bomb ever ...

In a YouTube video, WIRED interviewed Alex Wellerstein, a professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology, in order to find out more about the sequence of events and physical effects produced by a ...

The previous chapters present the results of the work carried out to address the committee’s charge, including a literature review, calculations, and analysis of information presented by many experts.

Ankit Panda is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC, USA, and author of The New Nuclear Age (Polity, 2025). At a time of growing catastrophic risks posed ...

Books by Wellerstein and Holloway, and an edited collected from Herzog, Arceneaux, and Petrovics review nuclear history and policy.

The 2nd Soviet atomic bomb, RDS-2, was tested on September 24, 1951 at the Semipalatinsk test site and produced a 38.3 kiloton yield. Deep down, everyone knows nuclear weapons are a danger. We know ...

The number of nuclear warheads in the world has come down significantly from a high of 64,000 in the 1980s, but more nations now have the bomb.

Initiatives Pour Le Désarmement Nucléaire (IDN) will be presented this plan in New York at the side event on " Reducing the risks of nuclear war: a ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...