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With the world holding arsenals of nuclear weapons, the risk of nuclear war is always present. Tensions have been rising with Russian threats around the war in Ukraine. Here's what could happen to six ...

Nuking the city of New York was terrifyingly easy and disturbingly informative. From the bank of the Hudson River in Hoboken, New Jersey, while gazing out at the Manhattan skyline, I simply moved my ...

A man who lived near an atomic bomb test site in the former Soviet Union is developing an advanced simulation tool to raise awareness about the risks of nuclear war. Ivan Stepanov is a simulation ...