A new analysis based on an online simulation tool is raising fresh questions about where Americans might be safest if a nuclear war ever happened. The study points to a handful of U.S. states that ...

A nuclear bomb simulator website has experienced a huge increase in visits since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine earlier this year, the creator told Newsweek. The simulator—called ...

Inspired by rising tensions with North Korea, I have taken to blowing myself up with a nuclear war simulator. Yes, you read that right. “Nukemap,” the creation of Alex Wellerstein, a historian of ...

Vladimir Putin has not been shy about suggesting that Russia’s nuclear arsenal could come into play as his invasion of the Ukraine flounders, and with Sweden and Finland looking to join NATO.

Nuking the city of New York was terrifyingly easy and disturbingly informative. From the bank of the Hudson River in Hoboken, New Jersey, while gazing out at the Manhattan skyline, I simply moved my ...

Nuclear weapons may be humanity's most terrifying creations, but most people would be hard-pressed to say what, exactly, such an explosion might do to their town or city. To help the public get a ...

With the world holding arsenals of nuclear weapons, the risk of nuclear war is always present. Tensions have been rising with Russian threats around the war in Ukraine. Here's what could happen to six ...