If a large-scale nuclear exchange ever occurred, the United States would face wildly uneven consequences depending on geography, wind patterns, and agricultural capacity. No federal agency publishes ...

Matt Korda, the associate director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists, assisted USA ...

Idaho downwinders who can prove 1 of 19 forms of cancer can now receive $100,000 under Radiation Exposure Compensation Act.

For better or worse, the U.S. nuclear arsenal is currently having a moment. First, "A House of Dynamite" became an instant No. 1 hit for Netflix shortly after its global streaming debut in October.

The world's ice is rapidly disappearing, but not without a trace. Ancient artifacts, frozen corpses, long-dead viruses and loads of trapped greenhouse gases are the parting gifts left behind as ...