The Nuclear Regulatory Commission plans to end longstanding guidance that radiation exposure be “as low as reasonably achievable.” By Brad Plumer The Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Wednesday ...

The previous chapters present the results of the work carried out to address the committee’s charge, including a literature review, calculations, and analysis of information presented by many experts.

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 ...

The Cold War ended in 1991. The United States’ commitment to prevent its adversaries’ nuclear ambitions and to extend its nuclear arsenal as an umbrella of protection to its partners has remained ...

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 ...

Q: What is a high-altitude nuclear explosion? A: A high-altitude nuclear explosion is a nuclear detonation in space, occurring above the earth’s atmosphere, at altitudes of roughly 18 miles or higher.

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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 ...