When a nuclear accident happens, it’s vital that scientists have accurate fallout models.

If a large-scale nuclear exchange ever occurred, the United States would face wildly uneven consequences depending on geography, wind patterns, and agricultural capacity. No federal agency publishes ...

“Nowhere is truly ‘safe’ from fallout and other consequences like contamination of food and water supplies and prolonged radiation exposure.” That is the assessment of John Erath, the Senior Policy ...

Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory recreated part of the intense chaos inside a nuclear fireball to better ...

As you wander through the irradiated wasteland of Fallout 76 looking for good loot and shooting at fellow survivors, you might wonder about the drastic mutations to the local flora and fauna caused by ...

In the atomic age, March winds and April showers also bring fallouts from the thin upper air. As spring crept over the Northern Hemisphere last week, scientists everywhere deployed their Geiger count ...