The previous chapters present the results of the work carried out to address the committee’s charge, including a literature review, calculations, and analysis of information presented by many experts.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A recent Chinese military study reported on Sunday says using three precision-guided warheads is more effective at destroying ...

Studies of the potential climate effects of nuclear war in the 1980s focused on northern hemisphere, large-scale nuclear conflicts, and predicted more extreme global “nuclear winter” scenarios.

There has not been a major (or minor) nuclear explosion since the 1960s. This is almost entirely because the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) was opened for signature on July 1 ...

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.

Looking at how the conflict is escalating day-by-day in the ongoing wars, it's best to stay prepared, should the unthinkable ...

America is in the middle of a once-in-a-generation effort to upgrade our nuclear weapons, which could cost taxpayers as much as $1.7 trillion. Some also are suggesting it might be time to restart ...

Editor’s note: “Behind the News” is the product of Sun staff assisted by the Sun’s AI lab, which includes a variety of tools such as Anthropic’s Claude, Perplexity AI, Google Gemini and ChatGPT. On ...

On Nov. 13, 1972, Terry Christensen was working in his office at Dixon Inc. on Orchard Mesa when he, like others, “felt the tremor.” He added. “We went out and saw the smoke. We saw a mushroom cloud, ...