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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Credit: The Presidential Palace and Information Office (Russia). Accessed via Wikimedia Commons. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

North Korea restarted nuclear reactor for plutonium production, IAEA says

By Susan D’Agostino | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant as seen from nearby Amesbury, Massachusetts. Credit: ThePessimus. Public domain image accessed via Wikimedia Commons.

As US nuclear exports decline, experts fear international safeguards will too

By Jessica Lovering, M. Granger Morgan | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

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

A choir of Hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors) sing

As atomic bomb survivors age, they’re motivating the next generation on disarmament

By Masako Toki | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

Arak IR-40 heavy water reactor, Iran. Credit: Nanking2012. CC BY-SA 3.0 Accessed via Wikimedia Commons.

How Iran’s research reactors prove the nuclear deal is still working

By Samuel M. Hickey | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

Atomic Bomb Dome in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. Credit: Michael Helmer. Public domain image accessed via Wikimedia Commons.

Opinion: In an era of climate change and COVID, Hiroshima reminds us of another existential threat.

By Susan D’Agostino | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

Rescue and clean-up crews search for casualties following the barracks bombing in Beirut on October 23, 1983. If negotiators hope to revive the Iran nuclear deal, they must address the billions of dollars’ worth of civil judgments by US victims of terrorism against Iran. Photo credit: United States Marine Corps. Public domain image.

US courts say Iran owes terrorism victims billions. That’s an obstacle to a new Iran nuclear deal.

By Christopher A. Bidwell | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

AMBER WAVES OF GRAIN. This field of ceramic nose-cones represents, in miniature, all the warheads in the US nuclear arsenal at the height of the Cold War, along with the nuclear submarines, bombers, and ballistic missiles designed to deliver them. Estimates put the warhead count at around 25,000. Denver sculptress Barbara Donachy created this installation to show what such a concentration of nuclear weaponry would look like all in one place. Her display contains 33,561 pieces representing 31,000 warheads, 1,799 ballistic missiles, 324 intercontinental bombers, and 37 nuclear submarines. Amber Waves of Grain installation by Barbara Donachy, Boston Science Museum, Boston, Massachusetts. February 13, 1985. Photograph copyright by Robert Del Tredici, The Atomic Photographers Guild. Used with permission.

Will Canada remain a credible nonproliferation partner?

By Susan O’Donnell, Gordon Edwards | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

Time exposure showing the tracks of the missiles’ six dummy warheads, white-hot from air friction, arriving 8,000 km down-range near Kwajalein Atoll in the Western Pacific. The domes in the foreground house tracking telescopes. As a part of the post-Cold War reductions, the Minuteman IIIs were downgraded to one warhead each. Credit: US Air Force photos from National Security Archive and US National Archive collections respectively. Public domain image.

Biden should end the launch-on-warning option

By Frank N. von Hippel | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

The Biden-Putin summit was a necessary messaging exercise

By Jon B. Wolfsthal | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

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

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