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US State Secretary Antony J. Blinken meets with Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on June 7, 2023.

Saudi Arabia can alleviate US concerns over its civilian nuclear energy program. Here’s how.

By Bilal Y. Saab, Chen Zak Kane | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

Canadian reactors that “recycle” plutonium would create more problems than they solve

By Jungmin Kang, M.V. Ramana | Nuclear Energy

A scene from the film 'The Day After' (1983) about the effects of a devastating nuclear holocaust on small-town residents of eastern Kansas. (Credit: American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.)

Nuclear injustice: Suggestions in support of a research agenda

By Benoît Pelopidas | Nuclear Weapons, Voices of Tomorrow

Putin at 20-foot long table with Macron

Distressing a system in distress: Global nuclear order and Russia’s war against Ukraine

By Mariana Budjeryn | Nuclear Weapons

How commercial satellite imagery could soon make nuclear secrecy very difficult—if not impossible

By Igor Moric | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

satellite image of area near N Korea nuke research plant

Machine learning improves satellite imagery analysis of North Korean nuclear activity

By Sulgiye Park, Allison Puccioni, Rodney C. Ewing | Technology and Security

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres addressing The International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, Sept. 26th, 2019. Credit: Bones Donovan accessed via Wikimedia Commons. CC-BY-SA 4.0.

Legal and political myths of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

By David A. Koplow, Edward M. Ifft | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Peace by Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Alpha Stock Images

Revisiting the case for no first use of nuclear weapons

By Gareth Evans | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Safeguards and the NPT: Where our current problems began

By Leonard Weiss | Uncategorized

China’s proper role in the global nuclear order – A Chinese response

By Hua Han | Uncategorized

China’s proper role in the global nuclear order – An Indian response

By Rajesh Rajagopalan | Uncategorized