Nuclear weapons testing has affected every single human on the planet, causing at least four million premature deaths from ...

A Japanese civic group advocating for nuclear abolition has held an event in Tokyo to mark five years to the day since the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons took effect on January 22, 2021.

Bombshell shows how the government tried to minimize the effects of radiation and prevent independent reporting through censorship and co-opting of the press.

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The world passed a nuclear milestone this week. And, perhaps surprisingly given the recent run of saber-rattling from the likes of Russia and the United States, it’s a positive one.

Nuclear bomb effects computer in pocket. Also issued online. NASM copy: Circular computer lacking. MSRL copy "Changes as of Feb. 1964" inserted. 1. General principles of nuclear explosions -- 2.

Hiroshima on Wednesday marked the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city, with many aging survivors expressing frustration about the growing support of global leaders ...

In a YouTube video, WIRED interviewed Alex Wellerstein, a professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology, in order to find out more about the sequence of events and physical effects produced by a ...

The use of atomic bombs on Japan is often justified by the potential loss of Allied lives in a ground invasion and as retribution for Japanese war atrocities. The atomic blasts and subsequent ...

This is a compact version of the specialized slide rule included in the reference book "The Effects of Nuclear Weapons," published by the Atomic Energy Commission in 1957 and revised in 1962. The ...

Editor’s Note: This article contains potentially triggering material, including discussions of war, health effects of atomic bombs, child death and more. In August 1945, the United States dropped ...