In June 2025, the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) released a map of potential nuclear targets in the U.S. The map, created in 2002 by the nonprofit and nongovernmental organization ...

We now know exactly where radiation contamination has occurred in the United States thanks to new research from SGS, and the results are quite terrifying. The academic journal Science & Global ...

Amid rising global tensions with conflicts in Russia, Ukraine, and most recently Iran and Israel, social media has been buzzing with apocalyptic memes. Memes depicting world-ending events humorously ...

Recent conflicts in Europe and the Middle East have reignited fears about the use of nuclear weapons. What would a nuclear conflict do to the planet’s environment today? In a new congressionally ...

Growing up in Salt Lake City, Utah, in the 1950s and 60s, Mary Dickson was among the millions of American schoolchildren taught to “duck and cover” in the event of a nuclear war. “I just remember ...

The map, created in 2002 by the nonprofit and nongovernmental organization Natural Resources Defense Council, was not created or release by FEMA, nor was it based on FEMA data. It was made to ...