Personal Essay

VIP observers in Adirondack chairs watch nuclear test in Pacific

Bulletin statement on the Energy Department’s Oppenheimer decision

By Rachel Bronson | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, Personal Essay

The Oppenheimer case: A study in the abuse of law

By Harold P. Green | Nuclear Weapons, Personal Essay, Special Topics

Oppenheimer Replies

By J. Robert Oppenheimer | Nuclear Weapons, Personal Essay, Special Topics

Why what happened to Oppenheimer then is relevant now

By Daniel M. Kammen | Opinion, Personal Essay

A nuclear weapon test by the US military at Bikini Atoll in 1946. (Credit: US Defense Department image via Wikimedia Commons, licensed with PD-USGov-Military)

What justice means to communities affected by nuclear testing

By Rebecca Davis Gibbons | Nuclear Weapons, Personal Essay, Voices of Tomorrow

Some disagree that it is 100 seconds to midnight. These undergrads held a debate

By Nitish Vaidyanathan | Climate Change, Doomsday Clock, Nuclear Risk, Personal Essay

Essays: Why the Marshall Islands’ nuclear history still matters today

By Rose Gottemoeller, Sally Clark | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons, Personal Essay

A current security imperative: the US role in the Marshall Islands

By Rose Gottemoeller | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons, Personal Essay

Nuclear tragedy in the Marshall Islands

By Sally Clark | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, Personal Essay

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright (top right) reflected on her role as the United States’ first female ambassador to the UN and her legacy as a women’s rights champion during a 2020 conversation with former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (bottom) and Ambassador Melanne Verveer hosted by the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security.

Remembering Madeleine Albright

By Melanne Verveer | Personal Essay

A close call at Ukraine reactor: On luck and nuclear disasters

By Maxime Polleri | Nuclear Risk, Opinion, Personal Essay

Bell Tower for Hiroshima, a terracotta and wood sculpture by Isamu Noguchi

Art and “un-forgetting”: How to honor the atomic dead

By Molly Hurley | Nuclear Weapons, Personal Essay, Voices of Tomorrow