Many concerns about returning to the deal are misplaced—and others can be addressed with some smart planning.

Virtual Tour: Turn Back the Clock “] On December 8, 1953, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower reassured the United Nations General Assembly that “peaceful power from atomic energy” could become “a great boon, for the benefit of all mankind.” Although his call for international oversight of nuclear energy went unheeded, other aspects of his “Atoms … Continued

Why John Bolton’s arrival as national security adviser makes it likelier for the administration to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal and potentially even confront Iran militarily.

Key steps need to be taken to reduce the dangers posed by spent nuclear fuel stored in cooling pools. The most important: a reduction of the density of spent fuel assemblies now stored in these pools, and an expansion of on-site storage of used fuel in hardened “dry casks.”

How scientists from once-and-future adversaries cooperated to prevent nuclear catastrophe.

In its first quarterly report to parliament, the Iranian foreign ministry assesses the pros and cons of the JCPOA, and tries to convince domestic skeptics.

The inherent difficulties of managing fictional dragons and real-life nuclear weapons

Even without ongoing monitoring and security costs, the average reactor now costs about $500 million to deactivate.

Since the United States withdrew from the joint agreement to halt Iran's nuclear program, the European Union has been leading a diplomatic effort to revive the deal. Will it be successful or forever spinning in a vacuum?

Protocols of the Geneva Conventions, the rules of International Humanitarian Law, and Russia’s own military regulations prohibit the kinds of attacks that Russia made on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. The question of who would hold Russia to account for violations of these international norms is at best unresolved.

With a cutting-edge project in Southeast Asia, the EU asserts a trailblazing role in fighting global CBRN threats

Over the past six months, two geological events in Japan and the United States had similar characteristics but very different outcomes. At Fukushima, 40-plus-year-old reactors shut down as designed on March 11 following a magnitude 9.0 earthquake, but the combination of ruptured offsite power supply lines and generators flooded by the ensuing tsunami led to a massive meltdown.

Virtual Tour: Turn Back the Clock “] President Lyndon B. Johnson re-election campaign included the infamous “Daisy Girl” TV commercial, which depicted a future in which Barry Goldwater led the country into nuclear war. Even though it aired only once, it was viewed by millions of Americans when the major TV stations rebroadcast it on … Continued

Taken in context, the president’s repeated attempts to force a renegotiation of the Iran agreement can be seen as the counterproductive fantasies they have been. They should stop, as the president and Congress turn to focus on more pressing security challenges.

Losing ground, Putin escalates his war in Ukraine with partial military mobilization—and nuclear threats.

Emboldened by its experience of living under sanctions, and its booming cooperation with sanctions-hit Moscow, Iran sees little value in restoring a nuclear deal with an uncertain shelf life.

Janne Nolan made us all part of something. Part of her girl gang. Part of her consensus. Part of her plan to break open the nuclear priesthood and speak truth to power.

While audiences around the world watched the breathless media coverage of US President Donald Trump’s follow-up summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, the proud owner of perhaps 10-20 nuclear weapons, they may have missed escalating military tensions between India and Pakistan, two countries with almost 300 nuclear warheads between them. The recent crisis … Continued

On July 15, the Pelindaba Treaty, which established Africa as a nuclear-weapon-free zone, finally entered into force. The treaty is the latest regional agreement to ban nuclear weapons in its area of application.