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Chinese President Xi Jinping. Credit: www.kremlin.ru. via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 4.0. Cropped.

China’s silence on nuclear arms buildup fuels speculation on motives

By Tong Zhao | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

HMS Vengeance returning to HMNB Clyde, after completing Operational Sea Training. The trials were conducted in Scottish exercise areas. Credit: Tam McDonald. Accessed via Wikipedia. Licensed under OGL v1.0.

Australian-UK-US nuclear submarine deal exposes civilian-military links

By Andy Stirling, Phil Johnstone | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Indian Prime Minister Modi addresses the crew of INS Arihant. Accessed via Wikimedia Commons. Credit: Prime Minister’s Office. Copyrighted work of the Government of India, licensed under the Government Open Data License – India (GODL).

What’s known—and not known—about India’s nuclear weapons budget

By Urvashi Sarkar | Nuclear Weapons

The A1 Verse: Opposites attract

By Thomas Gaulkin | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Special Topics

Sea nettle jellyfish swimming at Monterey Bay Aquarium in Monterey, CA. Credit: Photollama. Accessed via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0.

Jellyfish attack nuclear power plant. Again.

By Susan D’Agostino | Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

What strategic stability? How to fix the concept for US-Russia relations

By Mikhail Troitskiy | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

South Korean missiles on display at the Korean War Memorial. Credit: Daniel Foster. Accessed via Flickr. CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.

How bad would a nuclear-armed South Korea be? Let us count the ways.

By Lauren Sukin | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

A rare spotting of a blue whale tail fluke. Credit: Mike Baird. Accessed via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 2.0.

Nuclear bomb detectors reveal hidden blue whale population

By Susan D’Agostino | Climate Change, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

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

Bilateral strategic stability: What the United States should discuss with Russia. And China.

By Robert J. Goldston | Nuclear Weapons

Iranian President Rouhani visiting the exhibition of nuclear achievements. Credit: Official website of the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran. https://president.ir/en/120598

Preventing an accidental nuclear crisis in Iran and beyond

By Samuel M. Hickey | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

How do humans make sense of the bomb? A photo essay.

By Robert Del Tredici, Gordon Edwards | Analysis, Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Multimedia, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

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

How to reduce the risk of a catastrophic spent nuclear fuel fire near the Persian Gulf

By Tara Burchmore, Tom Spence, Ali Ahmad | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk