If a large-scale nuclear exchange ever occurred, the United States would face wildly uneven consequences depending on geography, wind patterns, and agricultural capacity. No federal agency publishes ...

The Nuclear Sponge is a five-part explanatory project by USA TODAY that aims to inform readers about the strategic debate and costs of modernizing the land leg of America’s nuclear triad. The United ...

Over seven decades of nuclear weapons testing have left a toll that can no longer be dismissed as an abstract risk. A new global assessment links roughly 4,000,000 early deaths to about 2,400 test ...