An curved arrow pointing right. Signs on building throughout New York City are all that's left of a widespread government effort to shelter millions of people from the fallout of a nuclear attack.

In the 1950s it seemed likely that the Cold War could at any minute take a turn for the worse, and we might all be consumed in the fiery conflagration of nuclear war. Fortunately neither the ...

Current U.S. Government advice is to 'shelter in place' but you're probably better off making a run for it A mathematical model of nuclear fallout suggests that sheltering in place is not always ...

known as nuclear fallout, reached the ground. Exposure to fallout can result in radiation poisoning, which can damage the body's cells and prove fatal. People should ideally look for shelter in ...

A newly released map reveals the catastrophic impact of a large-scale nuclear ... the most severe fallout from an attack, ...