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."

Even a limited nuclear war would throw enough soot into the atmosphere to block sunlight and lower global temperatures by more than one degree Celsius.

In 1986, in the midst of the Cold War, psychologists set out to find answers about how to talk to kids about nuclear war.

How did the island of Guam, over 5,000 miles from the West Coast, get to be the closest piece of US territory to North Korea?

Pessimism is on the rise. Mercurial politicians, rising nationalism and isolationism, international bluster, a changing climate, mass protests, ...

The real life history behind the 1961 nuclear accident fictionalized in Andria Williams' The Longest Night.

North Korea has for decades tried to acquire nuclear technology, but international reluctance and a lack of resources have been their greatest obstacles. 

The fight for nuclear non-proliferation by state and non-state actors alike.