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Is there any debate? This is the existential threat scorecard you need to rate the Biden and Trump matchup

By John Mecklin | Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Risk, Special Topics

AI and atoms: How artificial intelligence is revolutionizing nuclear material

By Jingjie He, Nikita Degtyarev | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

AI back to back heads

Convergence: Artificial intelligence and the new and old weapons of mass destruction

By Emilia Javorsky, Hamza Chaudhry | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

2018 Moscow Victory Day Parade. Credit: Website of the President of the Russian Federation. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Accessed via Wikimedia Commons.

In Ukraine, Putin tries his hand at nuclear blackmail. Here are seven ways to thwart him.

By John Erath | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

Strange animal-nuclear tales

By Susan D’Agostino, Thomas Gaulkin | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Special Topics

Photo of Noah Mayhew, 2021 Leonard M. Rieser Award winner

Bulletin names Noah Mayhew 2021 Leonard M. Rieser Award recipient 

By | What’s New at the Bulletin

Russian President Vladmir Putin. Accessed via Wikimedia Commons. Credit: www.kremlin.ru, Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported.

Biden threatened harsh sanctions should Russia invade Ukraine. Putin may not be deterred.

By David Cortright | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

Dove of peace. Street art in Berlin. Credit: Marko Kafé. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed via Wikimedia Commons.

We can’t prevent tomorrow’s nuclear wars unless we imagine them today

By Marina Favaro, Sara Z. Kutchesfahani | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Alex Wellerstein leans against an Mk-17 hydrogen bomb casing at the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Permission: Alex Wellerstein.

Alex Wellerstein pulls back the curtain on nuclear secrecy

By Susan D’Agostino | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

10 years after Fukushima: Are Japanese nuclear power plants safe?

By Jun Tateno | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

Can North America’s advanced nuclear reactor companies help save the planet?

By Elisabeth Eaves | Climate Change, Fusion Energy, Nuclear Energy

It’s all about the data: Responding to international chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear incidents

By J. A. Bentz, D. J. Blumenthal, B. A. Potter | Uncategorized