Shortly before lunchtime on Oct 30 1961, a Soviet plane flying above the Arctic archipelago of Novaya Zemlya dropped the most powerful nuclear bomb ever created. The USSR’s “emperor bomb” was 3,000 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I had a similar thought several times while watching A House of Dynamite—this is how it could very well happen, how the people at ...

In these New York Times photographs, taken during mandatory civil defense drills in the fervid early years of the Cold War, you can almost hear the absence of sound. Something is missing here, and ...

“At the end of the Cold War, global powers reached the consensus that the world would be better off with fewer nuclear weapons. That era is now over.” That is the chilling opening line of Kathryn ...

On January 27, 2026, the editors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the hands of their famous “Doomsday Clock” to 85 seconds to midnight―the closest setting, since the appearance of the ...

Key Points and Summary - Nuclear war remains unlikely, but not impossible—and five regions stand out as potential flashpoints in 2026. -Dr. Brent M. Eastwood walks through scenarios where Israel could ...

This essay contains spoilers for the film A House of Dynamite. In the opening minutes of Kathryn Bigelow's latest film, A House of Dynamite, the unthinkable happens — a single nuclear warhead is ...

This weekend brings Halloween holidays, and that means everyone is looking for the best horror movies to watch. For our modern times and , here are 10 nuclear war movies for your Halloween watchlist.

With doomsday nuclear weapons the last remnant of Russia's superpower status, President Vladimir Putin is stepping up threats to use them against Western powers aiding Ukraine. (Photo by Alexander ...