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 ...

“Nowhere is truly ‘safe’ from fallout and other consequences like contamination of food and water supplies and prolonged radiation exposure.” That is the assessment of John Erath, the Senior Policy ...

Lucy took a break from Fallout 4 to investigate some old and new theories on how to survive nuclear war. Flex those mental muscles and join Lucy James on a journey of discovery in Reality Check, the ...

Next month it will have been 80 years since the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were devastated by nuclear attacks. More than 200,000 people – mostly citizens – would die by the year's end ...

Nuclear war remains extremely unlikely, although the topic has been in the news much more than we'd like lately. This has left some people wondering which American cities would fare better if such an ...

Introduction: At the core of the bomb, narratives -- Atomic familiars on the radioactive landscape -- Fallout stories -- Nuclear approach/avoidance : social scientists and the bomb -- Survival of self ...