The commission's own safety culture may be worse than those of the nuclear plants it oversees.

Six whistleblowers—former government scientists—describe being sidelined by the administration. And they explain why they won’t be quiet.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is proud to join over 220 news outlets from across the world in the Covering Climate Now (CCN) initiative by committing to heighten climate coverage in the week leading up to the UN Climate Action Summit on September 23, 2019.

A compilation of quality nuclear policy news published on the Web, around the world. Iran Nuclear Deal Iranian hard-liner slams Trump for not tearing up nuclear deal Russia warns Iran could withdrawal from nuclear deal Trump and Iran: Scenarios of escalation The Insanity Of Trump’s Renewed Threat To Back Out Of The Iran Nuclear Deal … Continued

A probabilistic approach to risk leaves us unprepared for "infrequent catastrophes." Nuclear plants require a "possibilistic" approach that allows us to design safeguards against the worst-case scenario.

We continue to populate our planet with technologies that have catastrophic potential. We have vulnerable concentrations of humans, economic power, and hazardous materials. The most fearful concentrations of hazardous materials are in nuclear power plants. A serious accident there could kill hundreds or even thousands of people, and contaminate large areas of land for as long as a century.

US government officials appear to be advancing a potential sale of nuclear power plants to Saudi Arabia. Late last month, Reuters reported that Energy Secretary Rick Perry approved six secret authorizations for companies to do preliminary work on a Saudi nuclear deal without congressional oversight. The Reuters article followed an interim staff report that US … Continued

Could the COVID-19 pandemic have started with a lab accident? While the matter has become heavily politicized, a credible investigation could help clear things up.

Disinformation campaigns undermine arms control regimes and norms. Here are five ways to build information resilience and spread truthful information that prevents lies from taking root.

Proliferation watchers have kept track of A. Q. Khan's activities for about 30 years. In 1979, the Washington Post named him as the Pakistani engineer who had left his position at the uranium enrichment centrifuge facility at Almelo, Netherlands, four years earlier with "lists of subcontractors and probably blueprints for the plant." Khan then returned to Pakistan, where he soon became director of the country's secret uranium enrichment project at Kahuta, near Islamabad, and a key player in its nuclear weapons program.

If he is not indicted for crimes (sexual assault? fraud?)from his murky past, if he is not felled by the heart attack typical for men of his age, work hours, and dietary habits, I expect President Trump to be deposed in a Republican house coup. He will then have been a vehicle for the election of President Pence.

Long before President Trump, Secretary of State Pompeo, and their echo chambers sought a Chinese scapegoat for the president’s gross and willful incompetence, researchers understood that the possibility the COVID-19 pathogen escaped from a Chinese research laboratory was plausible, if unproven. The possibility a lab escape is behind the coronavirus pandemic is most definitely not “a conspiracy theory.”

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 … Continued

Read what Trump’s independent-minded Russia adviser, Fiona Hill, had to say about Vladimir Putin—the strongman Trump admires so much.

Experts have described carbon offsets as a “climate scam” and the voluntary market for them a “Wild West.”

A daily roundup of quality nuclear policy news. North Korea South Korea urges US support for North Korea nuclear talks South Korea urges North to abandon nuclear weapons, allow family visits Trump blames Russia for aiding North Korea, says Moscow undercuts efforts to sanction Kim Jong-un Trump calls out Bush, Obama on North Korea North … Continued

The TVA used to be at the forefront of new technology. Not anymore.

A new study suggests molnupiravir, a popular COVID-19 antiviral treatment, may be leading to the proliferation of mutated SARS-CoV-2 viruses, concerning experts who worry the drug could help breed new dangerous variants.

This 1988 Bulletin article by Deborah Blum shares what happened when a head of X-ray laser research unintentionally became a whistleblower after finding out powerful insiders were outing a dubious program as a key to the "technological race for the prize of the planet."