Nuclear Risk

Nuclear submarine HMS Vanguard arrives back at HM Naval Base Clyde, Faslane, Scotland following a patrol. Photo: CPOA(Phot) Tam McDonald/MOD accessed via Wikimedia Commons. Open Government License version 1.0.

The new Australia, UK, and US nuclear submarine announcement: a terrible decision for the nonproliferation regime

By Sébastien Philippe | Nuclear Risk

A scene from a Ventura County, California public service video on preparing for and responding to a nuclear terrorism event.

Twenty years after 9/11, terrorists could still go nuclear

By Matthew Bunn | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

A Defense Department graphic depicts the Ballistic Missile Defense System architecture. Credit: US Defense Department.

Biden should guide missile defense his own way

By Ivanka Barzashka | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

September magazine: How to cut defense spending in a pandemic and climate change era.

By Bulletin Staff | Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Risk

A large suspected enrichment facility has been constructed at the Kahuta complex since 2014.

Nuclear Notebook: How many nuclear weapons does Pakistan have in 2021?

By Hans M. Kristensen, Matt Korda | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Plutonium pellet. US Energy Department public domain image via Wikimedia Commons.

The history of nuclear power’s imagined future: Plutonium’s journey from asset to waste

By William Walker | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

A Northrop Grumman Facebook post from September 2019 about its program to produce the United States' new intercontinental ballistic missile, known as the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent.

Interview: Tom Collina of the Ploughshares Fund on the politics of defense spending

By John Mecklin | Nuclear Risk

The United States needs to cut military spending and shift money to two pressing threats: pandemics and climate change

By Mandy Smithberger | Nuclear Risk

B-2 Stealth bomber at air base in Iceland

Why President Biden needs to revisit—and reduce—his defense budget

By Lawrence J. Korb | Missile Defense, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, Technology and Security

Sen. Jim Inhofe, a Republican from Oklahoma and ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, speaks during a hearing in March on the Defense Authorization Request for fiscal year 2022 and the Future Years Defense Program. Photographer: Andrew Harnik/AP/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Interview: Diane Randall, general secretary of the Friends Committee on National Legislation, discusses restraining the US defense budget

By John Mecklin | Interviews, Missile Defense, Nuclear Weapons

Satellite images show hundreds of missile missile silos under construction under inflatable domes at three missile fields and a training area in north-central China. Satellite images © 2021 Maxar Technologies and © 2021 Planet Labs, Inc. All rights reserved. For media licensing options, please contact fas@fas.org

China’s nuclear missile silo expansion: From minimum deterrence to medium deterrence

By Hans M. Kristensen, Matt Korda | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

VC Summer nuclear site in South Carolina, with operating unit 1 in the background and abandoned twin unit Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear reactor construction in the foreground; Tim Mousseau ©2018. Used with permission.

US attorney details illegal acts in construction projects, sealing the fate of the “nuclear renaissance”

By Tom Clements | Nuclear Energy