When atmospheric chemists Paul Crutzen and John Birks added smoke into their computer models of nuclear war scenarios, they ...

MIT professor Susan Solomon discusses the National Academies study on the environmental impacts of nuclear war, and how it made her realize the importance of the science of rising smoke and fuel loads ...

President Trump ripped up a pact designed to prevent Iran from building a bomb. Getting a better agreement now could prove difficult. By Katrin Bennhold I’m the host of the World. For two months now, ...

President Donald Trump doubled down on his claim that the financial pain of Americans is not a consideration when seeking ...

In a YouTube video, WIRED interviewed Alex Wellerstein, a professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology, in order to find out more about the sequence of events and physical effects produced by a ...

(Jack W. Aeby/Manhattan Project/Public Domain) This Week in Science: a common disorder gets a much-needed name change; an ...

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Whatever emerges from the debris of the US-Israel-Iran war, Iran's nuclear programme will be at the heart of any agreement, and that deal will probably not look much different to the one that ...

The treaty’s three pillars - disarmament, non-proliferation, and peaceful use - are not simply under pressure; they are drifting apart, each weakened by a combination of political inertia, strategic ...

David Gross, a celebrated U.S. theoretical physicist, calls himself an optimist—especially concerning the future of his field. He’s certain that somewhere out there lurks a final, unified theory of ...

In all the documentaries I have watched on the Cold War, I have been intrigued by these strange operations and projects ...