"Our study suggests that living near a [nuclear power plant] may carry a measurable cancer risk." The post Huge Study Finds ...

The world has seen the devastation caused by the two atomic bombs that were dropped on Japan in the Second World War, but the havoc would be multifold if a modern-day nuclear weapon were used in a ...

Scientific knowledge about the damaging effects of nuclear-weapons testing helped to end such tests. Those findings haven’t changed.

Researchers, including some from NASA, say the best option to stop an asteroid with a 4% chance of smashing into the moon and a .00081% chance of slamming into Earth may be to nuke it. Earlier this ...

The announcement comes just days after NPR revealed the administration had secretly rewritten safety and environmental ...

Nuclear weapons testing has affected every single human on the planet, causing at least four million premature deaths from cancer and other diseases over time, according to a new report delving into ...

At the outset of the Cold War and the dawn of the era of nuclear competition, the United States and the Soviet Union worked quickly to develop large stockpiles of weapons and to demonstrate the power ...

The US military conducted nuclear tests on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean in July 1946 - Copyright US Defense Nuclear Agency/AFP - The US military conducted ...