A White House science advisor recently war-gamed with space agency heads worldwide to devise a planet-saving defense to an ...

President Trump has warned that “monster” nuclear weapons are the biggest threat to humanity and could easily “end the world” ...

A "DOOMSDAY vault" has received a new delivery of crop seeds to preserve forever if the Earth is wiped out by a nuclear war. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is located 430 feet down, deep inside a ...

Ukraine became the third-largest nuclear power after the Soviet Union's dissolution but voluntarily gave up its arsenal under the 1994 Budapest Memorandum in exchange for security assurances. However, ...

Amrith is a history professor at Yale and the author, most recently, of “The Burning Earth.” The unrelenting Russian war has poisoned ... advocate a world free of nuclear weapons, were finally ...

It has the potential, the possibility, for being an emergency for planet Earth. “We might even have to consider the severe measures of sending up a nuclear weapon to the surface of this asteroid ...

A Cold War nuclear bunker could be turned into a tourist attraction after it was bought at auction for more than double the guide price. The 1958 Royal Observer Corps monitoring post in the ...

They will choose self-defense over subservience. So far, most of the discussion of the risk of nuclear war in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been focused on a perceived immediate danger ...