MIT professor Susan Solomon discusses the National Academies study on the environmental impacts of nuclear war, and how it made her realize the importance of the science of rising smoke and fuel loads ...

Nuclear war is much more unpredictable than asteroids, but, unlike the dinosaurs of 66 million years ago, humans can avoid ...

Thirty-five years after the start of the nuclear age with the first explosion of an atomic bomb, I visited the expanse of desert known as the Nevada Test Site, an hour’s drive northwest of Las Vegas.

Scientists in Pennsylvania reveal exactly what a nuclear winter would look like – with starvation for billions of people up to eight years after a global war. The experts say a nuclear winter – a ...