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The lecture series takes its name from his 1982 seminal work on the consequences of nuclear war. It is an annual lecture of original work delivered by …

K-25 helped enrich uranium for “Little Boy,” a nuclear weapon dropped over Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945, shortly before the end of World War …

At 100 seconds to midnight, the Doomsday Clock is closer than ever to the end, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists reported. Threats of nuclear war …

This includes coastal tunnels to hide submarines and a bomb shelter designed to help 200 people survive a nuclear war. Despite the darker side of …

And he’s just getting started. Nuclear war? “Could break out at any moment.” Pandemic virus? “There’s probably an increasing risk from biotechnology …

… A Well-Ordered Thing: Dmitrii Mendeleev and the Shadow of the Periodic Table and Five Days in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War.

The Federation of American Scientists revealed in late January that the U.S. Navy had deployed for the first time a submarine armed with a low-yield …

The Los Angeles–class nuclear attack submarines were the most successful American submarines of the Cold War. The United States built sixty-two …

A nuclear war that cooled Earth could worsen the impact of ocean acidification on corals, clams, oysters, and other marine life with shells or skeletons, …

Technology has significantly advanced since the United States dropped the world’s first atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945.