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Jan 23, 2020
The Doomsday Clock is now closer to midnight than ever before
Just 100 seconds to midnight.
Jan 26, 2018
What the heck is the Doomsday Clock, and why did it just tick?
We're two minutes to midnight. Again.
Mar 24, 2017
Watch a 1953 nuclear blast test disintegrate a house in high resolution
Footage may or may not contain a flying toilet.
Jul 12, 2016
GOP Platform Vows To Protect U.S. From A Fantasy Weapon
An Electromagnetic Pulse Bomb is an Empty Threat
Nov 06, 2015
After The Apocalypse, Our Greatest Fear Is MIT
Fallout 4's newest danger is robots and those who make them
Aug 06, 2015
America Reflects On The Bomb, 70 Years After Hiroshima
Selected readings on the apocalypse at the end of World War II
Jun 03, 2015
Fallout 4 Revisits Our Cold War Nightmare Shelters
A look at the many doomsday bunkers featured in Popular Science over the years
Aug 07, 2014
From The Archives: Debating The Hiroshima And Nagasaki Bombings
"By splitting the atom, man may have united the world."
Jul 18, 2014
Computer Models Show What Exactly Would Happen To Earth After A Nuclear War
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