Discussions about nuclear war often remain distant for many Americans, though past research attempted to calculate what such a disaster might mean across the United States. During the closing years of ...

Advanced AI models appear willing to deploy nuclear weapons without the same reservations humans have when put into simulated geopolitical crises. Kenneth Payne at King’s College London set three ...

A nuclear war between Russia and the United States could kill 34.1 million people and injure another 57.4 million within the first few hours, according to a 2019 simulation by researchers at Princeton ...