Nuclear War - /contrib/nuclear_war

Newsweek takes you through the most serious nuclear war near misses since the Cuban Missile Crisis, and compares them with the ongoing Ukraine war.

A 350-kiloton W-78 nuclear bomb on Tokyo, the most-populated city in the world, would produce 760,490 deaths and almost three million injuries.

Biden said Russian President Vladimir Putin was "not joking when he talks about the potential use of tactical nuclear weapons, or biological or chemical weapons."

What could happen if Putin used nuclear weapons in Ukraine?

Vladimir Putin is threatening to use nukes again. If Russia ultimately decides to conduct a surprise first strike, are you living near a location that is likely to get nuked? Many people assume that the

Questioning "mutual assured destruction," Charles Kupperman called nuclear conflict "in large part a physics problem."