Nuclear Risk

The long-term problem of “peaceful” plutonium

By Robert Alvarez | Nuclear Risk

Waste Isolation Pilot Plant receives 12,500th shipment of transuranic waste

Can the Energy Department store 50 tons of weapons-grade plutonium for 10,000 years?

By Robert Alvarez | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Armenia's Metsamor nuclear power plant cooling towers. Credit: Adam Jones via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 2.0.

Armenia’s nuclear power plant is dangerous. Time to close it.

By Brenda Shaffer | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

French general pressing a button to trigger third atomic bomb test in the Algerian Sahara

French report grapples with nuclear fallout from Algerian War

By Austin R. Cooper | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Voices of Tomorrow

The psychological pandemic: Can we confront our death anxiety?

By Robert Jay Lifton, Charles B. Strozier | Biosecurity, Climate Change, Nuclear Risk

Headshots of Elisabeth Eaves and Thomas Countryman for ICBM GBSD nuclear missile virtual program discussion

Watch now: Why is America getting a new $100 billion nuclear weapon?

By Halley Posner | Nuclear Risk

President Biden delivers remarks to the virtual Munich Security Conference. Photo by Anna Moneymaker-Pool/Getty Images

Foreign commercial banks: The essential partner in future discussions of the Iran nuclear deal

By Christopher A. Bidwell | Nuclear Weapons

Aerial view of Angra 3 nuclear reactor construction site in 2017

Brazil’s Angra 3 nuclear reactor: a political undertaking, not a common good

By Carolina Basso | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Voices of Tomorrow

Kim Jong Un at the 8th Workers Party Congress. Photo credit: KCNA via KCNA Watch.

What North Korea’s Party Congress means for Biden and the world

By Duyeon Kim | Nuclear Weapons

The Davis–Besse Nuclear Power Station, located northeast of Oak Harbor, Ohio. Photo credit: Nuclear Regulatory Commission/Wikimedia

Big money, nuclear subsidies, and systemic corruption

By Cassandra Jeffery, M. V. Ramana | Nuclear Energy

A US Air Force commander simulates launching a nuclear weapon.

The United States would be more secure without new intercontinental ballistic missiles

By Frank N. von Hippel | Nuclear Weapons

Shultz (front left) and the author (left rear) at a 1987 National Security Council meeting on missile defense and arms control. Other participants, from left to right: Energy Secretary John Herrington, Science Advisor William Graham, Special Assistant to the President and NSC Senior Director Robert Linhard, National Security Advisor Frank Carlucci, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Director Kenneth Adelman, CIA Deputy Director Robert Gates, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Robert Herres, and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger. (White House photo.)

An appreciation of George Shultz, a statesman, a gentleman, and a gentle man

By William Tobey | Nuclear Risk