This video examines how close the world came to nuclear war during the Cold War and what might have happened if a single ...

The global food supply would be devastated by nuclear war not only from the direct damage, but through a chain of atmospheric and biological impacts that science only now is trying to measure. New ...

Next month it will have been 80 years since the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were devastated by nuclear attacks. More than 200,000 people – mostly citizens – would die by the year's end ...

This comparison global map illustration shows one potential scenario outcome and how corn crops would be negatively affected by cold temperatures and shorter growing seasons resulting from soot ...

The most harrowing part of a nuclear war may not be the bombs and the radiation but what comes afterward, a new study has revealed. The study from Penn State University scientists said that even a ...

Faced with pollution conditions that experts say is like a "nuclear winter", people in Beijing are trying everything to protect themselves from the choking smog and fumes. The country's toxic air ...