Nuclear winter refers to extreme global cooling that can occur after large-scale nuclear war. Firestorms from detonations loft hundreds of millions of tons of soot into the stratosphere, blocking ...

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 ...

New Delhi: A comprehensive new report by Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA), provided exclusively to AFP, concludes that nuclear weapons testing between 1945 and 2017 contributed to at least four million ...

Nuclear bomb effects computer in pocket. Also issued online. NASM copy: Circular computer lacking. MSRL copy "Changes as of Feb. 1964" inserted. 1. General principles of nuclear explosions -- 2.

The United States and its allies are insufficiently ready for conflicts that involve limited nuclear attacks (LNAs), according to a new study by Markus Garlauskas, director of the Indo-Pacific ...

The United States’ highest national security priority is deterring major-power conflict with nuclear-armed adversaries. In 2023, the bipartisan Strategic Posture Commission warned that the US is 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 ...