Storytelling is an important tool in changing public perception. In an interview, Lesley M. M. Blume, author of the newly released Fallout, provides some important advice on how to incorporate storytelling on nuclear weapons issues.

Although Nolan’s film is not technically accurate throughout, the adjustments in 'Oppenheimer' are made for understandable artistic reasons, writes an historian of the Manhattan Project.

Investigators are focusing on one factory in Ukraine as a black-market source for North Korea, a new report and classified intelligence assessments say.

Just 50 years after the Roman Empire grew to its largest size, a mysterious and crippling pandemic known as the Antonine plague brought it to its knees. Research on climate change and in other areas is shedding light into how the plague, which preceded centuries of decline, emerged to pack such a devastating punch.

After the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, scientists became a force in American politics, advocating for scientific openness and international control of nuclear weapons.

A Framework for Tomorrow’s Pathogen Research Final Report Chairs Ravindra Gupta Ameenah Gurib-Fakim Shahid Jameel David Relman Directors Jesse Bloom Filippa Lentzos February 2024 Introduction Reasons for hope Reasons for caution Ethical obligations Research Governance Trust-building Recommendations Introduction Safe, secure, and responsible high-risk research Joseph Rotblat, a physicist who quit the Manhattan Project and later … Continued

Australia’s 2019-20 summer wildfires are harbingers of death on a hotter planet. But they did not come without warning. The question now is: What are we going to do about it?

India’s first nuclear movie avoids hard questions about the meaning of India’s 1998 nuclear tests.

After Oppenheimer, policy makers of nuclear-armed countries have let the interests of their military and arms producers control these weapons, an MIT physicist argues.

The timing of India’s recent anti-satellite missile test had more to do with the country’s internal domestic politics than anything else. But to decry such testing may be a case of the pot calling the kettle black.

How many people really died because of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings? It’s complicated. There are at least two credible answers.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists co-founder Eugene Rabinowitch warned in June 1945 against dropping the bombs on Japan. What would he say about Hiroshima and Nagasaki today?

The UN General Assembly’s First Committee voted overwhelmingly for a resolution that would provide compensation for those who have been harmed by nuclear weapons. If approved by the General Assembly, the resolution will support information gathering and needs appraisal in affected states, followed by steps to assist victims and remediate contaminated environments.

Environmental justice requires a robust permitting process with plenty of opportunities for local communities to participate.

Cuando, en cuatro meses, finalice el segundo mandato del presidente Barak Obama, ¿cómo será recordado? Sin dudas, como el primer presidente afro-norteamericano. Sin embargo, su legado incluirá también importantes logros, como la supervisión de la recuperación económica y la ampliación del acceso a la atención de la salud. Se lo recordará por sus esfuerzos para … Continued

“Theory will only take you so far,” Oppenheimer says in Christopher Nolan’s movie, which stops short too.

Blurring the distinctions between nuclear arms control advocates, disarmament advocates, and abolitionists has harmed abolitionists by hindering their ability to bring contemporary social justice movements into the anti-nuclear struggle.

An interview with Garrett M. Graff, author of the new book Raven Rock, on how the US government plans to maintain itself in the event of a nuclear attack.

A Framework for Tomorrow’s Pathogen Research Final Report Chairs Ravindra Gupta Ameenah Gurib-Fakim Shahid Jameel David Relman Directors Jesse Bloom Filippa Lentzos February 2024 Introduction Reasons for hope Reasons for caution Ethical obligations Research Governance Trust-building Recommendations References Amman, B.R., C.G. Albariño, B H. Bird, L. Nyakarahuka, T.K. Sealy, S. Balinandi, A.J. Schuh et al. … Continued