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Ian Johnson

Ian Johnson completed his doctorate in history at Ohio State University in 2016, and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Clements Center for National Security and a lecturer in the history department at the University of Texas at Austin.

Joel Beckner

Joel Beckner is an active-duty US Army foreign area officer, working towards his master’s degree in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at Stanford University.

Heng Qin

Heng “Amber” Qin is a senior majoring in political science at Wellesley College. She also studies Russian and was an exchange student at Moscow State Institute of International Relations.

Nadezhda Smakhtina

Nadezhda Smakhtina is a graduate student at American University in Washington, D.C., focusing on governance and security in Eurasia.

Columnists
25 May 2017

Time to end the decay at the Energy Department

Jeff Terry

The tunnel collapse at Hanford highlights how much routine maintenance the Energy Department defers. Will the nation pay for necessary maintenance; allow nuclear sites to deteriorate for lack of funds; or acquire maintenance funds by shutting down some nuclear sites? Choices must be made.

Analysis
25 May 2017
Climate Change
Middle East

NATO joins the Pentagon in deeming climate change a threat multiplier

Dana Nuccitelli

A new NATO special report concludes that climate change will make things worse in the world's most unstable regions.

What We're Reading
24 May 2017
Climate Change
Europe/Russia

Catholic groups ramp up international divestment momentum

Dan Drollette Jr
Nuclear RoundupColumnists
24 May 2017
Nuclear EnergyNuclear Weapons

Nuclear Roundup: 5/24/2017

Jodi Lieberman
24 May 2017

A new nuclear arms race?

Sound starts at :59 seconds: In recent decades, the United States has led international efforts to halt the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. But many of President Trump’s statements on nuclear weapons suggest a coming shift in US policy. Could America’s new posture spark a renewed nuclear arms race? With Ivo H. Daalder, President, Chicago Council on Global Affairs; Robert L. Gallucci, Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy, Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University; Scott Sagan, Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University. Moderated by Rachel Bronson, Executive Director and Publisher, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

Ban brief
Tuesday, May 23, 2017

A first draft of the world's first nuclear weapons ban

Tim Wright
On Monday, negotiators unveiled the first draft of a historic UN treaty to ban nuclear weapons. Here's what it says.
Columnists
23 May 2017
Nuclear EnergyNuclear Weapons

Nuclear Roundup: 5/23/2017

Jodi Lieberman

Amory Lovins

Physicist and energy expert Amory Lovins is cofounder of and chief scientist at Rocky Mountain Institute,

Analysis
23 May 2017
Climate Change
AmericasAsia

Clean energy and rare earths: Why not to worry

Amory Lovins

Some claim that shortages of rare earth minerals, or China’s near-monopoly over rare earths, could inhibit the West’s shift to renewable energy. It's just a long-standing myth.

Nuclear RoundupColumnists
22 May 2017
Nuclear EnergyNuclear Weapons

Nuclear Roundup: 5/22/2017

Jodi Lieberman
What We're Reading
22 May 2017
Climate Change

Green energy’s battery explosion

Lucien Crowder

Soon, electric vehicles will be cheaper than fuel-burning models. Or maybe even sooner.

Andrea Berger

Andrea Berger is a senior research associate at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, and a visiting fellow at King’s College London.

Analysis
19 May 2017
Nuclear WeaponsSpecial Topics

The problem with suppressing controversy in the Non-Proliferation Treaty

Andrea Berger
Nuclear RoundupColumnists
19 May 2017
Nuclear EnergyNuclear Weapons

Nuclear Roundup: 5/19/2017

Jodi Lieberman
Analysis
19 May 2017
Nuclear WeaponsSpecial Topics

The ban treaty must address the scientifically predicted consequences of nuclear war

Steven Starr

To date, there has been an unfortunate avoidance (among both diplomats and NGOs) of any explicit discussion of the effects of nuclear war; instead the language of the general conversation has tended to focus on the effects of a nuclear weapon, in the singular.

Nuclear RoundupColumnists
18 May 2017
Nuclear EnergyNuclear Weapons

Nuclear Roundup: 5/18/2017

Jodi Lieberman
Nuclear RoundupColumnists
17 May 2017
Nuclear EnergyNuclear Weapons

Nuclear Roundup: 5/17/2017

Jodi Lieberman
Columnists
17 May 2017
Nuclear Weapons
Americas

A predictable nuclear accident at Hanford

Hugh Gusterson

Hanford isn’t the only former nuclear production site with a worrisome safety record and hazy timeline for cleanup.

Nuclear RoundupColumnists
16 May 2017
Nuclear EnergyNuclear Weapons

Nuclear Roundup: 5/16/2017

Jodi Lieberman
Opinion
16 May 2017
Nuclear WeaponsSpecial TopicsTechnology and Security
AmericasEurope/Russia

A failure in discretion: the meaning of the Trump leak to the Russians

Sharon Squassoni

One hopes that President Trump will not want to show off his “great” nuclear weapons as much as he wanted to share his “great intel.”

Analysis
15 May 2017
Nuclear Energy
Asia

Reprocessing policy and South Korea’s new government

Jungmin KangFrank von Hippel

Pyroprocessing is not a dream technology that can solve South Korea’s spent-fuel problem. It is a costly detour to nowhere.

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