With decades of experience in national security, Jill Hruby joins the Bulletin’s Science and Security Board to help confront ...

THE Doomsday Clock was moved forward by one second to 89 seconds before midnight last January, signalling that the world is ...

The Doomsday Clock was moved forward by one second to 89 seconds before midnight last January, signalling that the world is getting closer to an unprecedented catastrophe. The clock, which considers ...

On July 16, 1945, the United States carried out the Trinity test, the world’s first nuclear detonation. Today, 80 years later, the University of Chicago — the site of the first self-sustaining nuclear ...

Scientists and military leaders proceeded with the first atomic bomb test despite acknowledging the risk of a catastrophe.

The Trinity test—the detonation of the world's first nuclear bomb—was conducted 80 years ago as part of the Manhattan Project.

This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, we talk about how humans have imagined the world ending, and what it says about us.

Iran Conflict Has Become a Nuclear Time Bomb The morning of August 6, 1945, began like any other, sunlit, serene, suspended ...

Yet mainstream US media outlets and partisan politics are routinely oblivious to threat of oblivion.

Manchester's own piece of Cold War history survives in the form of the Guardian telephone exchange. Also known as 'Scheme 567 ...

The bombing of the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland Harbour on 10 July 1985 and the death of a voyager on board, Greenpeace ...

In 1946, the US organized a football game featuring a pro fullback and a Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback in the ruins of ...