Iran

What if the smartphone in your pocket was also a radiation detector?

By Andrew Longman, Ephraim Fischbach | Opinion, Special Topics

President of the Review Conference for the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Do Hung Viet, at work at UN headquarters in New York last week. (Photo by The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)

The 11th NPT Review Conference ends with a whimper

By Mark Goodman | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

A group of people in formal attire sit around a table with phones and documents; one person wears a "USA" cap. A map and security personnel are visible in the background.

Why Congress and senior officials must deny Trump a ‘nuclear escape’ in Iran

By Paul Slovic, Rose McDermott | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

white doves in flight against background of blue sky

Introduction: Arms control is dead. Long live arms control

By John Mecklin | Magazine, Nuclear Weapons

A man in a suit and glasses speaks at a United Nations meeting, seated behind a sign reading "Iran (Islamic Republic of)".

Iran’s positions at the NPT Review Conference are rational. Ignoring them would weaken the treaty

By Syed Ali Zia Jaffery | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons

Large empty assembly hall with rows of seats, a central podium, and the United Nations emblem displayed on a golden wall in the background.

How to salvage the NPT Review Conference

By Adam Scheinman, Mark Goodman | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons

A group of workers in white uniforms and hard hats oversees the lifting of a large blue cylindrical metal component by a yellow crane outside an industrial facility.

Missing from US-Iran talks: plutonium for more than 200 nuclear bombs

By Henry Sokolski | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons

A group of people in formal attire sit around a table with phones and documents; one person wears a "USA" cap. A map and security personnel are visible in the background.

Taking a sledgehammer to the nuclear nonproliferation regime

By Frank von Hippel, Seyed Hossein Mousavian | Analysis, Nuclear Risk

Three men in suits stand in front of two US flags; one speaks at a podium with the Vice Presidential seal, while the other two listen.

It seems Washington needs to be reminded of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

By Olamide Samuel | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

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When the war in Iran comes home: Why the US isn’t ready for increasing hybrid threats

By Alexander Noyes, Mike Nelson | Disruptive Technologies

Satellite view of the Isfahan Nuclear Technology Center and tunnel entrances.

Will Trump nuke Iran?

By Pervez Hoodbhoy | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

Iranian flags wave in front of a nuclear power plant complex with a dome-shaped reactor building and a tall red-and-white smokestack in the background.

Trump’s ‘a whole civilization will die’ threat against Iran exploits long-standing ambiguity over what Washington considers legal in war

By Ali Alkis, Ludovica Castelli | Analysis, Nuclear Risk