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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.

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

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.

The US military has lost six nuclear warheads in Broken Arrow incidents including the Tybee Island bomb ...

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

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

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

According to Payne, the models escalated to the point of tactical nuclear war in 95 percent of scenarios, noting that nuclear threats to each other were far more likely to escalate than de-escalate ...

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

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