Nuclear Risk

The 2010 nuclear security summit in Washington, DC.

Would terrorists set off a nuclear weapon if they had one? We shouldn’t assume so

By Christopher McIntosh, Ian Storey | Analysis, Nuclear Risk

Deval Patrick speaking in Denver in 2008.

Deval Patrick: the latest presidential candidate to be uninformed on nuclear weapons

By John Krzyzaniak | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

artist's rendition of rows of nuclear missiles

Ditch the Bomb, not the NPT

By Sergio Duarte | Nuclear Weapons

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

Ukrainian troops

Impeachment backstory: The nuclear dimension of US security assistance to Ukraine

By Mariana Budjeryn | Analysis, Nuclear Risk

Workers stacking bags of soil.

An update from Fukushima, and the challenges that remain there

By Tatsujiro Suzuki | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Opinion

Members of the press visit the Arak reactor.

Members of US Congress refuse to benefit from the Iran nuclear deal

By John Krzyzaniak | Nuclear Risk, Opinion

Soviet inspectors inspect Pershing missiles

The death of the INF Treaty has lessons for arms control

By Amy J. Nelson | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

A large wave at Banzai Pipeline of the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii

The apocalypse: It’s not the end of the world

By Jamais Cascio | Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies, Doomsday Clock, Nuclear Risk

Apocalypse, a 1903 painting by Albert Goodwin

Stories of technological threat—and hope

By John Mecklin | Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies, Doomsday Clock, Nuclear Weapons

Former US Defense Secretary and current Bulletin Board of Sponsors chair William Perry

Former Defense Secretary William Perry: Why we must describe doomsday to keep it from happening

By John Mecklin | Doomsday Clock, Interviews, Nuclear Weapons

A map showing nuclear strikes during an India-Pakistan war scenario

How an India-Pakistan nuclear war could start—and have global consequences

By Alan Robock, Owen Brian Toon, Charles G. Bardeen, Lili Xia, Hans M. Kristensen, Matthew McKinzie, R. J. Peterson, Cheryl S. Harrison, Nicole S. Lovenduski, Richard P. Turco | Doomsday Clock, Nuclear Weapons