A new nuclear war simulation has highlighted which parts of the United States might face lower levels of radioactive fallout ...

A new analysis based on an online simulation tool is raising fresh questions about where Americans might be safest if a nuclear war ever happened. The study points to a handful of U.S. states that ...

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 ...

Top university scientists created a map simulation of who across North America would be impacted by nuclear fallout in the event of a nuclear explosion ...

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

We know that an all-out U.S.-Russia nuclear war would be bad. But how bad, exactly? How do your chances of surviving the explosions, radiation, and nuclear winter depend on where ...

Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases ...

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.

Top AI models were asked to simulate nuclear war and consistently chose to launch. GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4, and Gemini 3 Flash treated escalation as a rational strategy in 21 high-stakes crisis games ...

AI like ChatGPT uses nuclear escalation in 95% of war game simulations, study finds - ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini threaten ...

The actions of AI large language models are concerning—but broadly similar to human decision-makers, who have used nuclear ...