A daily roundup of quality nuclear policy news.
General Interest
2018 Doomsday Clock announcement
Thorium reactors may dispose of enormous amounts of weapons-grade plutonium
How should we write about nuclear weapons?
Nuclear reactors the size of wastebaskets could power our Martian settlements
We owe it to our children to end the nuclear age
North Korea
What if H.R. McMaster is right about North Korea?
American illusions and Korean realities: Preventing conflict on the Korean peninsula
Asia’s metropolises against North Korea
United States
Pentagon considers changing nuclear retaliation rules
Return of tactical nuclear weapons would send a dangerous signal
After Hawaii false alarm, what is the federal government’s responsibility in nuclear attack alerts?
Trump’s nuclear posture review must keep us safe
100 Hanford workers moving to new offices after radiation confusion
Really? We’re gonna nuke Russia for a cyberattack?
The biblioracle: Got nuclear jitters after the false alarm in Hawaii? Books for the bomb shelter
As Russia looms, modernizing US nuclear arsenal is non-negotiable
International
Tillerson to make his European tour amid rising rift over Iran nuclear deal
Lavrov says failure of Iran nuclear deal would be ‘alarming’
US lawmakers aim to tighten terms of Iran nuclear deal
Iran deal won’t survive beyond May 2018, sanctions expert says
Commentary: Killing the Iran nuclear deal will be bad for the US
Russia refuses to banish nuclear weapons and comply with United Nations treaty
The mineshaft gap: The lavish bunkers where Putin, Trump plan to fight a nuclear war
Forget Britain’s nuclear deterrent – here’s what Russia is really afraid of
Entire China could soon be within India’s nuclear strike zone
Editorial: Japan should not pursue nuke fuel reprocessing despite US OK
Melted nuclear fuel seen inside second Fukushima reactor
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