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Members of the Atomic Energy Commission Patrol at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 1947.

The first report of the Atomic Energy Commission

By The Atomic Energy Commission | Nuclear Risk

President Reagan says goodbye to Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev after the last meeting at Hofdi House Reykjavik Iceland in October 1986

The rise and demise of arms control

By Michael Krepon | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Plutonium pellet. US Energy Department public domain image via Wikimedia Commons.

The history of nuclear power’s imagined future: Plutonium’s journey from asset to waste

By William Walker | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Waste, Nuclear Weapons

The “Calutron Girls” of the Y-12 Nuclear Security Complex at Oak Ridge, Tennessee

A call for antiracist action and accountability in the US nuclear community

By Katlyn M. Turner, Lauren J. Borja, Denia Djokić, Madicken Munk, Aditi Verma | Nuclear Risk, Opinion

Safeguards and the NPT: Where our current problems began

By Leonard Weiss | Uncategorized

Nuclear pursuits: Non-P-5 nuclear-armed states, 2013

By Timothy McDonnell | Nuclear Notebook