Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russia is still escalating its nuclear threats as the war in Ukraine goes on. If a nuclear bomb were headed toward the US, ...

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Nevada - Frenchman's Flat - Members of 11th AB Div. kneel on the ground to watch an atomic bomb test in 1951. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/ Universal Images Group via Getty Images) It’s the ...

A new study shows that a single radioactive cloud was responsible for a large share of the nuclear fallout during the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster on 11 March 2011. The work is published in the ...

Understanding the nuances of nuclear fallout—whether from a nuclear weapon or accident—could help save countless lives. A new study from scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have ...

Imagine a 150-kiloton nuclear bomb exploded in the city closest to you. Do you know how the city, its surrounding region, and its inhabitants would be affected? If you can't think of much more than "a ...

Mary Dickson got thyroid cancer at 29 and only years later discovered it was caused by radioactive fallout from U.S. nuclear weapons tests. The government acknowledges downwinders throughout Utah, ...