A chilling map from the 1980s shows how up to 75% of the US could be wiped out in a nuclear war, with scientists using a ...

A Cold War-era map has resurfaced that predicted the regions of the US where 75% of people would die in a terrifying World ...

The Semipalatinsk Test Site, also called the Polygon, is lesser known but was used by the Soviet Union to test nuclear ...

CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER STATION, Ukraine (AP) — A drone armed with a warhead hit the protective outer shell of Ukraine’s ...

For years, France buried radioactive waste from nuclear tests it conducted in the Algerian desert. And for decades, it ...

A drone armed with a warhead hit the outer shell of Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear plant, briefly starting a fire, in an attack ...

Originally from Under the Cloud: The Decades of Nuclear Testing by Richard Miller, and featured in Silent Fallout  From 1959-1970, the communities of Saint Louis, Missouri were tasked with a unique ...

Here's everything we know so far about "Fallout ... life in the nuclear wastelands, while others formed (often violent) factions to restore some semblance of order in this new world.

Although Chernobyl is the most well known, there are a host of other radioactive places in the world in countries including ...

After an apparent drone strike blew a hole in the protective shell, there is an urgent need to patch what covers the wreckage ...

Ukraine’s nuclear ghosts have been stirred up again after a drone armed with a warhead hit the protective outer shell of the ...

Nuclear bombs in the 1950s had cores made of the radioactive element plutonium or the isotope uranium-235, in which the atoms would split apart in a process called fission, causing a huge explosion.