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How real is the possibility of a threat being acted upon? No one really knows, but one thing the government has done is provide Americans with a step-by-step guide to survival.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York lawmakers are continuing to push for more details about the state's decision to make utility consumers pay up to $7.6 billion over several years to subsidize aging upstate nuclear plants.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The September vote on the Iran nuclear deal is billed as a titanic standoff between President Barack Obama and Congress.

That's right, scientists have discovered a natural nuclear reactor in the Earth's crust in Gabon, Africa.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will cast a looming congressional vote on the Iran nuclear deal as the nation's most consequential foreign policy debate since the authorization of the Iraq war, a now unpopular decision that still reverberates through American politics.

Are you pleased with the Iran nuclear deal?  Are you confident that the deal, reached in the early morning hours today, will lead to peace?  Or does it not go far enough?

WASHINGTON (AP) — There are more signs of distress in the nation's nuclear force. The Air Force has fired two commanders and disciplined a third in response to internal investigations of leadership lapses and misbehavior at two of its three intercontinental ballistic missile bases.

CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) — Crews investigating a radiation leak from the federal government's underground nuclear waste dump in southeastern New Mexico plan to make a second trip into the half-mile-deep repository today.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — An 84-year-old nun has been sentenced to nearly three years in prison for breaking into and defacing a storage bunker holding bomb-grade uranium in a peace demonstration at a Tennessee weapons plant.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force's nuclear missile corps faces new strains after dozens more officers were implicated in an investigation of cheating on missile-launch proficiency tests. The number implicated in the probe has roughly doubled from the original 34 officers, meaning that about 14 percent of all launch officers are now sidelined.