At doom’s doorstep: It is 100 seconds to midnight

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PRESS RELEASE—At doom’s doorstep: It is 100 seconds to midnight

By | What’s New at the Bulletin

Russian military pilot in 2016. Credit: Министерство обороны Российской Федерации. License CC BY 4.0. Accessed via Wikimedia Commons.

Russia threatened a “military-technical” response for unmet demands. What could that mean?

By Pavel Podvig | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

P5 Press Conference at the United Nations, April 19, 2013. The five Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) nuclear-weapon states issued a joint statement in January 2022. Credit: Eric Bridiers. Accessed via Flickr. Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic.

Five nuclear weapon states vow to prevent nuclear war while modernizing arsenals

By Rebecca Davis Gibbons | Nuclear Risk, Uncategorized

Bulletin joins Nobel Laureates in call to redirect military spending

By | What’s New at the Bulletin

Idaho National Laboratory’s Fuel Conditioning Facility supports work to demonstrate the technical feasibility of a nuclear recycling technique called pyroprocessing. Photo Credit: Fuel Conditioning Fact Sheet, Idaho National Laboratory.

Why joint US-South Korean research on plutonium separation raises nuclear proliferation danger

By Frank N. von Hippel, Jungmin Kang | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

A 2016 Great Prophet wargame in southeastern Iran. Credit: Hossein Zohrevand for Tasnim News Agency. License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. Accessed via Wikimedia Commons.

Iran nuclear deal negotiators must act with urgency, given Iranian and Israeli nuclear brinkmanship

By Gawdat Bahgat | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, Uncategorized

Executive Secretary Lassina Zerbo speaks the 2015 NPT Review Conference event, “The Urgency of Action on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty – Contributing to International Peace and Security in an Increasingly Unstable World.” Credit: The Official CTBTO Photostream. Accessed via Wikimedia Commons.

Key nuclear treaty review plagued by COVID delays as distrust grows

By Lauren Sukin | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Nuclear submarine HMS Vanguard. Photo: CPOA(Phot) Tam McDonald/MOD accessed via Wikimedia Commons. Open Government License.

The 2021 nuclear year in review—with five enduring stories

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

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

Russian soldiers. Russian Federation. Credit: Jesse. Accessed via Flickr. CC BY-SA 2.0.

Is Russia preparing for war?

By Lauren Sukin | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director-General, welcomes Dr. Ali Bagheri Kani, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and his delegation upon their arrival at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 2 December 2021. Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA. (CC BY 2.0)

Two steps to revive—and sustain—the Iran nuclear deal

By Seyed Hossein Mousavian | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons