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The Plutonium Facility at Los Alamos, in front of the Sangre de Cristo mountains. Photo credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory

Dealing with a debacle: A better plan for US plutonium pit production

By Curtis T. Asplund, Frank von Hippel | Nuclear Weapons

National Ignition Facility operators inspect a final optics assembly during a routine maintenance period in August.

The Energy Department’s fusion breakthrough: It’s not really about generating electricity

By John Mecklin | Fusion Energy, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons

The US military tests a missile in the ocean.

Pandemic spending will force US defense budget cuts—some of which should come from nuclear weapons programs

By Lawrence J. Korb | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

USS Minnesota submarine

Trump’s 2021 budget: More nuclear spending, less of almost everything else

By Lawrence J. Korb | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

Shipping container with radioactive material

Nuclear terrorism: US officials say it’s best to plan for the worst

By Jay A. Tilden, Dallas Boyd | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

What really went wrong at WIPP: An insider’s view of two accidents at the only US underground nuclear waste repository

By David M. Klaus | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

The nuclear weapons dismantlement problem

By Robert Alvarez | Nuclear Weapons

Reforming the US nuclear weapons enterprise

By John R. Harvey | Uncategorized

A realignment commission for national labs: How to downsize America’s bloated and unsecure nuclear weapons complex

By Lydia Dennett | Nuclear Weapons