American leftists were hamstrung by the Cold War’s domestic clampdown on communism, but in the 1960s, Women Strike for Peace re-wrote the book of dissent.

The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the U.S. came with censorship and obfuscation about the effects of the radiation on those who were exposed.

The haute beachwear known as the bikini was named after a string of islands turned into a nuclear wasteland by atomic bomb testing.

In the 1950s and 1960s, families planning for the apocalypse often took a homespun approach.

This is not the first time the presence of American nuclear weapons in Turkey has been part of a crisis.

The way Americans metabolized the global threat of nuclear war has had lasting effects on how we think about our newest global threat: climate change.

And what does it mean that Iran has enriched uranium past the 4.5% level?

During the Cold War, America's libraries helped patrons prepare for nuclear war, from stocking reference materials to providing fallout shelters.

It's been 55 years since the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. The massive amounts of fallout in the decade previous to the Treaty taught us a lot about the interconnected planet we live on.

Mother Nature’s wrath can be unpredictable and random, but history shows that humankind is ultimately responsible for many "natural disasters."