Nuclear Risk

An existential threat scorecard for the Democratic presidential debates

By John Mecklin, Thomas Gaulkin | Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Risk

In the first US “salvo” test of ground-based missile interceptors, two interceptors were launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on March 25, 2019. They successfully intercepted a “threat-representative” ICBM target launched from a test site on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. This photo shows the launch of the “lead” interceptor, which destroyed the missile’s reentry vehicle. The “trail” interceptor struck the remaining “most lethal object” it could find. Credit: Missile Defense Agency

Congress is not asking the right questions about missile defense

By Deverrick Holmes | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Voices of Tomorrow

Siegfried Hecker chats with some of the participants in the US-Russia Young Professionals Nuclear Forum

The future of global nuclear power through the eyes of young Russian and American professionals

By Siegfried S. Hecker, Alla A. Kassianova | Analysis, Nuclear Energy

Nuclear power and global climate change

By Ivan Andriushin, Cecilia Eiroa-Lledo, Patricia Schuster, Evgenii Varseev | Analysis, Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, Voices of Tomorrow

What countries will be the most important in leading a significant expansion of global nuclear power—both from the perspective of the supplier and the user?

By Vladislav Kostikov, Anna Kudriavtseva, Cameron Tracy | Analysis, Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, Voices of Tomorrow

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi at the Bushehr Nuclear Plant in 2015.

Should nuclear power be expanded significantly into developing countries?

By Yulia Katsenko, Oksana Mironchuk, Evgenii A. Veretennikov, Kristin Ven Bruusgaard | Analysis, Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, Voices of Tomorrow

The world's first AP1000 reactor, at the Sanmen nuclear power plant in China.

What will be required for a significant expansion of global nuclear energy?

By Chantell Murphy, Vasily Safonov | Analysis, Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, Voices of Tomorrow

Watts Bar Nuclear Power Plant Units 1 & 2 cooling towers and containment buildings.

Why nuclear power plants cost so much—and what can be done about it

By Daria Iurshina, Nikita Karpov, Marie Kirkegaard, Evgeny Semenov | Analysis, Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, Voices of Tomorrow

On a tour of the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhI).

Resolving safety and security concerns about nuclear power

By Roman Bobrov, Julia Diamond, Khalit Shemshedinov | Analysis, Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, Voices of Tomorrow

Will nuclear proliferation challenges limit a significant expansion of global nuclear power?

By Vladimir Kobezskii, Elliot Serbin | Analysis, Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, Voices of Tomorrow

An example of dry cask storage of spent nuclear fuel.

Will nuclear waste disposal challenges limit a significant expansion of global nuclear power?

By Aleksandr Kudryavtsev, Maria Levon, T. Gannon Parker, Viktor Rosnovskii | Analysis, Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, Voices of Tomorrow

Russian Orthodox cross superimposed over missile

Blessing the holy ICBMs: The Russian Orthodox Church and Putin

By Robert E. Berls Jr. | Book Review, Nuclear Weapons