It's 40 years since the Chernobyl disaster. This is what it has meant for wildlife living around the devastated nuclear power plant.

The threat of nuclear war has changed significantly since the Cold War era, but it has never truly disappeared. While the days of massive stockpiles of nuclear weapons pointed at every major city have ...

This is a hypothetical scenario, not a prediction. Survival in a nuclear war would not depend simply on which continent someone lives on, but on the scale of the exchange, distance from targets, ...

A recent study has pinpointed just two countries that could survive a nuclear war. This comes as tensions have intensified in recent days, with America and Israel, both nuclear-armed nations, ...

Chornobyl Exclusion Zone, Ukraine - It’s a freezing January morning, and the sun is glistening across a placid, snowy, forested landscape. But the calm is deceptive. An air raid siren suddenly blares ...

The Chernobyl disaster began in the early hours of April 26, 1986, when a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded during a safety test. The explosion and subsequent fire sent a plume of ...

March 11, 2026, marks 15 years since the Fukushima nuclear disaster happened in Japan. This major nuclear accident initially shook the international community of nuclear experts to its core. As ...

The Chernobyl disaster began in the early hours of April 26, 1986, when a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded during a safety test. The explosion and subsequent fire sent a plume of ...

Fifteen years ago, Fukushima, Japan, was home to one of the worst nuclear disasters in history. Today, some places in the region look just as they did in the immediate aftermath of that fateful Friday ...