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 ...

Under U.S. leadership, fear of nuclear war is increasing Fear of nuclear war is legitimate and real, but it seems to be ...

Present fears that some country may transfer nuclear warheads to Iran may ultimately prove as overblown as many of these past historic fears.

When Iran’s covert nuclear program came to international attention over two decades ago, Tehran insisted that its intentions were peaceful and that it had no plans to develop nuclear weapons.

President Trump ripped up a pact designed to prevent Iran from building a bomb. Getting a better agreement now could prove ...

On Aug. 9, 1945, 6-year-old Chiyoko Motomura was playing on a veranda at her family’s Nagasaki, Japan, home. Her mother, aunt and grandfather were weeding the rice fields while her grandmother was ...