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MQ-9 Reaper.

In the debate over autonomous weapons, it’s time to unlock the “black box” of AI

By Arthur Holland Michel | Artificial Intelligence, Opinion

Parthenon in Athens, undergoing partial restoration

What science and democracy have in common: us, hopefully

By Adam Sobel | Columnists, Opinion

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman

Saudi Arabia’s nuclear program: Separating real concerns from threat inflation

By Ali Ahmad | Nuclear Risk, Opinion

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Trump’s COVID infection shows why it’s time to retire the nuclear football

By Tom Z. Collina | Biosecurity, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

Trump takes questions at coronavirus briefing

The human cost of the Trump pandemic response? More than 100,000 unnecessary deaths.

By Michael Riordan | Biosecurity, Opinion, Science Denial

Mike Pompeo and Mohammed bin Salman

Toward an honest Middle East nonproliferation policy

By Victor Gilinsky, Henry Sokolski | Nuclear Risk, Opinion

Lo-fi beats to save the world to

By Jamie Withorne | Nuclear Risk, Opinion

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