Chinese researchers have unveiled a breakthrough experimental therapy that could one day protect humans from the deadly effects of nuclear radiation exposure. The study, published in the journal Cell ...

Editor’s note: This is part of the “Nuclear winter: Why study it now?” series. Earth scientists Brian Toon and Alan Robock discuss their latest book on nuclear winter, “Earth in Flames” (Oxford ...

Radiation can wreak havoc on the human body when it's exposed to high doses or for prolonged periods of time. The world understood this in horrifying detail after the Chernobyl and Fukushima Daiichi ...

This report presents a framework through which the potential environmental effects of nuclear war can be evaluated. Chapter 2 presents four nuclear war employment scenarios ranging from a single ...

“The relationship between nuclear weapons and human security is similar to that of the relationship between economic inequalities and social justice: if you have the first, the second is very ...

A major industry safety report from 2026 found that several frontier AI labs have recently added restrictions to their systems since they could not rule out that their models might assist novices in ...

At the outset of the Cold War era, the United States and the Soviet Union rapidly built up large nuclear arsenals as part of the prevailing doctrine of deterrence, under which each nation attempted to ...