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Former secretaries of state John Kerry and Colin Powell

Convention takeaway: Democrats (and some Republicans) call for a return to multilateralism

By Halley Posner | Opinion, Voices of Tomorrow

Energy Department representatives presented Yucca Mountain license application to the NRC on June 3, 2008.

If Trump and Biden agree there shouldn’t be a nuclear waste site at Yucca Mountain, can’t we all?

By David Klaus | Nuclear Energy, Opinion

The “Calutron Girls” of the Y-12 Nuclear Security Complex at Oak Ridge, Tennessee

A call for antiracist action and accountability in the US nuclear community

By Katlyn M. Turner, Lauren J. Borja, Denia Djokić, Madicken Munk, Aditi Verma | Nuclear Risk, Opinion

Hinkley Point C nuclear power station under construction

Trump’s new foreign investment agency: Itching to build on nuclear quicksand

By Victor Gilinsky, Henry Sokolski | Nuclear Energy, Opinion

A looted Chicago storefront

What the protests tell us: Invest in social equity, not nuclear weapons

By Rachel Bronson | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, Technology and Security

flags in Vienna

The postponed 2020 NPT Review Conference: A modest proposal

By Tariq Rauf | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

closeup of coronavirus through microscope

Let evidence, not talk radio, determine whether the outbreak started in a lab

By Ali Nouri | Biosecurity, Opinion

The Jetsons

Why do so many Pentagon projects go so far over budget? The Jetsons explain.

By Wendy J. Jordan | Nuclear Risk, Opinion

The author during his time as a firefighter

Climate change and the coronavirus are upending the way we fight wildfires

By Don Whittemore | Biosecurity, Climate Change, Opinion

Plutonium storage at the Sellafield nuclear site.

Britain has 139 tons of plutonium. That’s a real problem.

By Christopher Fichtlscherer, Friederike Frieß, Moritz Kütt | Nuclear Risk, Opinion

Rafael Mariano Grossi

Coronavirus and the IAEA reports: From maximum pressure to humanitarian détente with Iran

By Robert J. Goldston | Nuclear Risk, Opinion

testing for COVID in Haz Mat suits

The coronavirus diaries: “I would be lying if I said I don’t get flashes of fear”

By Nate Thayer | Biosecurity, Opinion