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

As countries continue nuclear sabre-rattling, nuclear winter, once a theoretical concept, now represents a chilling climate scenario that could follow a large-scale nuclear war. In such an event, vast ...

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 ...

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 ...