A massive American web of orbiting missile interceptors could in theory protect the U.S. from an all-out Russian nuclear ...

Bulletin of Atomic Scientists’ puts clock at 89 seconds from nuclear apocalypse, closer to ‘midnight’ than even during the Cuban Missile Crisis ...

Humanity has grown closer to global disaster in the past year, with the Doomsday Clock moving to 89 seconds to midnight.

Scientists and global leaders revealed on Tuesday that the "Doomsday Clock" has been reset to the closest humanity has ever come to self-annihilation.

A secret US nuclear weapons facility near Las Vegas may soon begin testing live bombs again as global tensions may be pushing countries into a new arms race. Amid reports that both Russia and ...

A film that shocked a generation is available to watch on BBC iPlayer. Threads was first aired on BBC2 in 1984 and again in ...

This clock symbolises how close the world has come to a deadly and horrific nuclear apocalypse ... These warning areas included nuclear weapons, biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and ...

A nuclear weapon could potentially be sent into space to deflect an asteroid heading Earth's way, an astronomer has told Sky News. Dr David Whitehouse said the measure could be taken against a ...