On May 13, President George W. Bush submitted to Congress an agreement for peaceful nuclear cooperation with the Russian Federation. The "123 agreement"--named after a provision of the 1954 Atomic Energy Act--would establish a 30-year framework for nuclear commerce between the former Cold War enemies, allowing the transfer of nuclear commodities such as reactor components and U.S. government-owned technologies and materials to Russia.

A personal essay on the meaning of a ballistic missile alert issued in Hawaii in January 2018, at the height of nuclear tensions between the United States and North Korea.

In a nuclear war, hundreds to thousands of detonations would occur within minutes, resulting in tens to hundreds of millions of people dead or injured in a few days. But a few years after, global climatic changes caused by the many nuclear explosions could be responsible for the death of more than half of the human population.

Bottom-up, business-led improvements will help keep the world safe from nuclear terrorism.

Without sufficient international cooperation Biden’s new nuclear security agenda is unlikely to succeed, a nuclear security expert argues.

Is a terrorist nuclear attack still something to worry about, 20 years after 9-11? The short answer, unfortunately, is “yes.” The probability of terrorists getting and using a nuclear bomb seems low—but the economic, political, and social consequences would reverberate far and wide—and change history.

Zoonotic diseases come from animals, but human activity makes it easier for these infections to spread. Pandemics often originate with a poor decision by one person or a small group, one disease ecologist says.

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The July Moscow summit didn't produce any significant breakthroughs in U.S.-Russian relations. In fact, it really only highlighted that the problems Moscow and Washington are ready to cooperate on are international, not bilateral, in nature (e.g., nuclear nonproliferation, terrorism, drug trafficking). On further strategic arms reductions--the most anticipated topic at the summit--the early results aren't as impressive as advertised.

The Kremlin’s decision to suspend implementation of the Plutonium Management and Disposition Agreement is symptomatic of much deeper issues between Russia and the United States.