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Nuclear Weapons

Interview: Steve Fetter on the meaning of Putin’s New START announcement

By John Mecklin | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Presidents Obama and Medvedev sign New START in 2010.

Jon Wolfsthal assesses the suspension of Russian participation in New START

By John Mecklin | Nuclear Weapons

Russia suspends New START and is ready to resume nuclear testing

By François Diaz-Maurin | Nuclear Weapons

Siegfried Hecker, a Senior Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee 21 January, 2004 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Hecker, who was a member of an unofficial US delegation that visited the controversial Yongbyon research complex this month, told lawmakers that North Korea can accumulate six Kilograms (13.2 pounds) a year of plutonium that could be used to make a nuclear weapon. "The five megawatt reactor has been re-started, it appears to be operating smoothly, providing heat and electricity, also accumulating approximately six kilograms (13.2 pounds) of plutonium per year in its spent fuel rods." Photo credit: Stephen Jaffe/AFP via Getty Images

An excerpt from “Hinge Points: An Inside Look at North Korea’s Nuclear Program”

By Siegfried S. Hecker, Elliot Serbin | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons

Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un shake hands

Interview: Siegfried Hecker on two decades of missed chances to deal with North Korea’s nuclear program

By John Mecklin | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons

Keeping humans in the loop is not enough to make AI safe for nuclear weapons

By Peter Rautenbach | Artificial Intelligence, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, Voices of Tomorrow

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His grandson explains: Why Oppenheimer remains important today

By Charles Oppenheimer | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

There is no alternative: US-Russian nuclear arms control must restart. Now.

By Connor Murray | Nuclear Weapons

Nowhere to hide: How a nuclear war would kill you—and almost everyone else. (Chinese)

By François Diaz-Maurin, Thomas Gaulkin | Investigative Reporting, Multimedia, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Roundtable: Making nuclear injustice an agenda for change

By Franziska Stärk, Ulrich Kühn | Nuclear Weapons, Voices of Tomorrow

Alexander Kmentt of Austria (center) talks with fellow delegates at the NPT review conference on May 1, 2015. (Credit: International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons / ICAN)

How the ban treaty addresses the inherent injustices of nuclear weapons

By Alexander Kmentt | Nuclear Weapons, Voices of Tomorrow

A uranium mining area in New Mexico. Gravel in the background covers mine tailings. (Credit: Netherzone via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0)

No justice is possible without studying the injustices of nuclear weapons

By Mari Faines | Nuclear Weapons, Voices of Tomorrow