A nuclear war is often imagined as a map of colors: red zones where survival seems impossible, orange zones where danger is extreme, yellow zones where life might continue under pressure, and green ...

A nuclear fallout map was produced by experts for Scientific American. Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst investigated wind and weather patterns to predict the timeline of nuclear ...

Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory recreated part of the intense chaos inside a nuclear fireball to better understand how radioactive fallout forms. Their experiments revealed that ...