A chilling map from the 1980s shows how up to 75% of the US could be wiped out in a nuclear war, with scientists using a ...

A Cold War-era map has resurfaced that predicted the regions of the US where 75% of people would die in a terrifying World ...

The Semipalatinsk Test Site, also called the Polygon, is lesser known but was used by the Soviet Union to test nuclear ...

For years, France buried radioactive waste from nuclear tests it conducted in the Algerian desert. And for decades, it ...

Originally from Under the Cloud: The Decades of Nuclear Testing by Richard Miller, and featured in Silent Fallout  From 1959-1970, the communities of Saint Louis, Missouri were tasked with a unique ...

The 1953 Ford van is cool, but the person behind this imaginative creation (and their car collection) is even cooler.

the show is available for all to watch — but here's a brief recap of "Fallout" season 1. In an alternate version of 2077, a Great War turns nuclear, causing a global apocalypse. Some who ...

Nuclear bombs in the 1950s had cores made of the radioactive element plutonium or the isotope uranium-235, in which the atoms would split apart in a process called fission, causing a huge explosion.

After an apparent drone strike blew a hole in the protective shell, there is an urgent need to patch what covers the wreckage ...

Iran’s supreme leader must revoke a fatwa banning the development of nuclear weapons if the regime is to survive, his top military commanders have said. In an extraordinary intervention by ...

Age of oldest reactor on site based on date operating license issued.

OSLO—A hibakusha who will speak at the Nobel Peace Prize awards ceremony here criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has threatened to use nuclear weapons over Moscow’s war in ...