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The 2025 nuclear year in review: Back to the Future Atomic Age

By François Diaz-Maurin | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

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Catholic bishops remind political leaders that nuclear weapons are immoral

By John Wester | Nuclear Weapons

A street scene with damaged buildings, rubble, a cyclist, pedestrians, and two trams in the city of Hiroshima showing signs of destruction.

The nuclear road not taken—and its consequences 80 years after the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

By Arjun Makhijani | Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Waste, Nuclear Weapons

Oppenheimer has become a folk hero. Kids should embrace his complexity

By Eric S. Singer | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

General Groves invented the Atomic Bomb, not Oppenheimer

By Peder Anker | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

Hibakusha group receives Nobel Peace Prize for “demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again”

By François Diaz-Maurin, Thomas Gaulkin | Analysis, Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

In memoriam: Some of our decades of coverage of the atomic bombings of Japan

By John Mecklin | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons