Harry Truman accelerated the United States’ pace in the nuclear arms race this week in history. The 33rd president of the United States publicly announced his support for the development of a hydrogen ...

Doomsday Clock warns humans are trending closer to catastrophe at 85 seconds from midnight. Here's what to know.

Behind closed doors with the experts who study the end of the world—and what they know about humanity’s capacity for survival ...

Earthquake kills 20,000 in western India; Indira Gandhi extends emergency rule; first nuclear explosion at Nevada Test Site; French colonial crackdown in Tunisia.

In a war with the US, North Korea stands to lose everything. The military asymmetry between the two nations would make the situation more volatile with Kim Jong-un likely to make a pre-emptive nuclear ...

The "Doomsday Clock," which symbolically represents the time remaining until Earth’s destruction, has reached its closest point to midnight in history. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BSA) ...

The 48-year-old Democrat was arguably the most anti-communist voice in Congress. He had introduced legislation to ban all ...

In the first half of 1945, the Japanese press began spreading some astonishing messages: their bombings had set North ...

YULA, or the Yeshiva University High Schools of Los Angeles, runs separate boys’ and girls’ campuses in the Pico-Robertson ...

Police presence is expected to increase Thursday at a Pico-Robertson school after a bomb threat was made to the campus, the Los Angeles Police Department said. A rabbi at Yeshiva University High ...

Iran’s praetorian guard that the United States has designated as a foreign terrorist organization, conducted a coordinated ...