July 16 marks 80 years since the first atomic bomb was detonated. The specter of nuclear annihilation has been with us ever ...

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.

This July 2025 issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists examines a number of similar potential flashpoints—around the world, in the skies above, and even in cyberspace—that, if activated, could ...

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

For nearly a century, scientists around the world have been searching for dark matter—an invisible substance believed to make ...

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

The Doomsday Clock now ticks just 89 seconds to midnight, with climate change, AI, nuclear weapons, and disinformation all ...

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

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 ...

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

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