May premium magazine: Early warnings and near misses

Nuclear Risk

Then-US President Barack Obama and then-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev issue a joint statement announcing their pursuit of a New START treaty in London in April 2009. (White House photo by Pete Souza.)

New START: To succeed, plan for failure

By John Erath | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

Canadian reactors that “recycle” plutonium would create more problems than they solve

By Jungmin Kang, M.V. Ramana | Nuclear Energy

‘Right of boom’: Meet the experts who respond to nuclear disaster

By Thomas Gaulkin | Nuclear Risk

Zelensky and Kishida at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on May 21, 2023 - crop

In Hiroshima, the G7 economies leverage global security gains

By Marina Lorenzini | Nuclear Weapons

atomic bomb dome army military hiroshima nuclear bomb

The nuclear death toll is still contested as the G7 meets in Hiroshima

By Alex Wellerstein | Nuclear Weapons

President Biden and VP Harris meeting with business leaders to discuss AI safety

How politics and business are driving the AI arms race with China

By Will Henshall | Artificial Intelligence, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, Voices of Tomorrow

May issue: Early warnings and near-misses

By Dan Drollette Jr | Investigative Reporting, Nuclear Risk

soldiers marching in Red Square, Moscow

Nuclear Notebook: Russian nuclear weapons, 2023

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

IAEA visits Fukushima

Fukushima: Lessons learned from a devastating “near-miss”

By Yoichi Funabashi, Marina Fujita Dickson | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

Pershing II missile launch

Able Archer: How close of a call was it?

By Thomas Fraise, Kjølv Egeland | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

view from ocean of condo collapse in Florida

Lessons learned in blood: Why we fail to use near-misses to prevent man-made disasters

By Catherine H. Tinsley | Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Risk, Special Topics

missile spiraling out of control during test

Interview with Eric Schlosser: Why we can’t trust the government’s figures about nuclear close calls

By Dan Drollette Jr | Investigative Reporting, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons