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A website that lets users simulate a nuclear attack has seen an uptick in users amid the ongoing war with Iran.

A recent study conducted by a King’s College London professor, Kenneth Payne, found that ...

As global tensions rise and military rhetoric escalates, experts have examined what would happen if modern nuclear weapons ...

Social media-fueled theories of World War 3 have raised questions over what US states are safe should nuclear war happen.

A new experiment has found that leading AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google are highly prone to using nuclear weapons ...

The US military is still unable to find six nuclear warheads lost in accidents, including the 1958 Tybee Island hydrogen bomb ...

As the Department of Defense pushes for greater AI integration, researchers said the top models chose the nuclear option in nearly all war simulations.

Finland's government has announced that it is reconsidering the ban on nuclear weapons as signs of an impending war draw ever clearer ...

Artificial intelligence models from Google, OpenAI and Anthropic resorted to nuclear escalation in 95 per cent of simulations ...

Fears of World War 3 and nuclear attacks are on the rise. But how safe would you be in DC, VA and MD during nuclear war? See vulnerable spots.

Imagine handing the nuclear launch codes to the world’s most advanced artificial intelligence. You’d hope the machine would ...