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Victor Gilinsky

Victor Gilinsky is a physicist and was a commissioner of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission during the Ford, Carter, and Reagan administrations.


Articles by Victor Gilinsky

A test version of the new B61-12 guided nuclear bomb to be deployed in Europe as part of a modernization program. Photo from a video by Air Force Staff Sgt. Cody Griffith.

What the new posture review says—and does not say—about the future of nuclear weapons

By Victor Gilinsky | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons
IAEA director general meeting with Ukraine officials

Dealing with Russian contempt for the IAEA in Ukraine

By Victor Gilinsky, Henry Sokolski | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk
Plutonium pellet. US Energy Department public domain image via Wikimedia Commons.

For the NPT to work, plutonium has to go

By Victor Gilinsky, Henry Sokolski | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Opinion
USS Tennessee submarine

Nuclear risks are growing, and there’s only one real solution

By Victor Gilinsky | Nuclear Risk, Opinion
Mike Pompeo and Mohammed bin Salman

Toward an honest Middle East nonproliferation policy

By Victor Gilinsky, Henry Sokolski | Nuclear Risk, Opinion
Hinkley Point C nuclear power station under construction

Trump’s new foreign investment agency: Itching to build on nuclear quicksand

By Victor Gilinsky, Henry Sokolski | Nuclear Energy, Opinion
Nuclear reactor on a truck

Small military nuclear reactors: In need of global safeguards

By Victor Gilinsky, Henry Sokolski | Nuclear Energy
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The US government insurance scheme for nuclear power plant accidents no longer makes sense

By Victor Gilinsky | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk
US President Donald Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a joint news conference at the White House this week. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Taking Erdogan’s critique of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty seriously

By Victor Gilinsky, Henry Sokolski | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons
Energy Secretary Rick Perry during a 2017 visit to Idaho National Laboratory.

Why Congress should say no to yet another fast reactor dream

By Victor Gilinsky, Henry Sokolski | Nuclear Energy, Opinion

If yes to Saudi Arabia, no to whom?

By Victor Gilinsky, Henry Sokolski | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Nuclear power’s weapons link: Cause to limit, not boost exports

By Victor Gilinsky, Henry Sokolski | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons