Month: October 2021

Leftover pieces of a frightening time in our nation’s history, where the threat of nuclear attack was very real, are littered throughout Boston.

Over 1,000 places in Boston were marked as nuclear fallout shelters during the Cold War. Where are they and what has become of them today?

1983: Nuclear winter. In the 1980s, researchers set out to determine the environmental effects of nuclear war. In 1983, the TTAPS study coined the term nuclear …

In a reversal of Trump administration policy, the State Department has revealed the number of nuclear weapons in the U.S. stockpile, a disclosure that it …

The figure was also the lowest level since the US nuclear stockpile peaked at the height of the Cold War with Russia in 1965, when the total was 31,255 warheads …

It’s like post-nuclear war stuff, like an Armageddon.” Kaner has been calling his stretch of beach, where he gives surf lessons year-round at Banzai Surf …

In modern times, humans built Panzer tanks, the F-16 Fighting Falcon, and nuclear weapons capable of vaporizing cities. Today, humanity is entering a new era of …

… society upon learning that its preeminent leader felt nuclear war could be near. … that reinforces our biases, waging culture wars for fun and profit.

In the early days of the Revolutionary War, 4,000 British troops were sent to occupy Boston and … North Korea is estimated to have 30-40 nuclear weapons.

They included taking nuclear weapons off hair-trigger alert, renouncing the policy of initiating a nuclear war, ending our $1.7 trillion nuclear arms race …