Whether it’s an act of war or terrorism, all that really matters in the moments after the blast is that there are ways to save yourself and your loved ones. Here’s what you can do to survive a nuclear attack. The worst thing about a nuclear attack is ...

Little is known about Pickaxe Mountain, but some experts say it illustrates the impossibility of relying on force alone to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear bomb.

As he announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran with just 90 minutes to spare before his deadline, Donald Trump was already claiming victory.

Confusion on whether Iran truly needed only “two weeks to four weeks” to make a nuclear weapon, as President Donald Trump suggested on Monday, hangs over the ongoing U.S. and Israeli war on the Persian Gulf nation. Nuclear experts call this claim ...

As part of a continuing series, Talha Burki looks at the issues at the core of medicine in nuclear power plants.

Strikes to Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant could release long-lasting radioactive cesium 137 into the Persian Gulf, causing environmental calamity and threatening drinking-water supplies for millio

Fears about nuclear war have skyrocketed since the U.S. and Israel launched an attack on Iran last week -Credit:Getty Images People under threat of nuclear explosion have been warned to seek shelter and avoid windows, hallways and doorways, a new study found.

If the largest nuclear bomb ever designed by the Soviet Union were dropped on downtown Atlanta, anything within a nearly five-mile radius would be "effectively vaporized." Within 20 miles of the detonation site, "most residential buildings collapse ...

Iran cannot use 60% enriched uranium directly in its current form (UF₆, which is stored as a solid in cylinders but handled as a gas or liquid during processing) to build a gun-type nuclear bomb. It must first be converted to metallic uranium, which is ...