“Nowhere is truly ‘safe’ from fallout and other consequences like contamination of food and water supplies and prolonged radiation exposure.” That is the assessment of John Erath, the Senior Policy ...

In less than a millionth of a second after a nuclear detonation or a severe nuclear reactor accident, an enormous burst of ...

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 ...

A U.S. Atomic Energy Commission photograph from July 26, 1957 showing an individual using a Geiger counter to examine a green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) for potential radioactivity in the Republic of ...

Drizzle some radioactivity in your tea: Scientists say nuclear fallout from Cold War weapons testing is still showing up in U.S. honey today, and the secret to the lingering traces is a sneaky ...

Here’s a quick update to yesterday’s story about the epidemic downsizing of U.S. newspaper staffs, courtesy of colleague Tim Wheeler at the Baltimore Sun. He offers some concrete evidence of the ...

Will polar bear protection mean ever-higher energy costs? That was the verbatim tease that the American Enterprise Institute offered in an email inviting me to a panel discussion yesterday afternoon.