This report presents a framework through which the potential environmental effects of nuclear war can be evaluated. Chapter 2 presents four nuclear war employment scenarios ranging from a single ...

As the threat of a nuclear war intensifies, the terrifying reality of what could happen after the bombs explode may cause more fear than the initial cataclysm. For decades, worst-case scenarios have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New satellite photos show the aftermath of the U.S. military strike that dropped multiple 30,000-pound "bunker-buster" bombs on ...

At the outset of the Cold War and the dawn of the era of nuclear competition, the United States and the Soviet Union worked quickly to develop large stockpiles of weapons and to demonstrate the power ...