Nuclear Weapons Testing

To sanction North Korea, sanction those that won’t—Russia and China

By Aaron Arnold | Nuclear Weapons

Making sense of North Korea’s recent ICBM and (possible) nuclear tests

By Seiyeon Ji, Victor Cha | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

Essays: Why the Marshall Islands’ nuclear history still matters today

By Rose Gottemoeller, Sally Clark | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons, Personal Essay

A current security imperative: the US role in the Marshall Islands

By Rose Gottemoeller | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons, Personal Essay

Nuclear tragedy in the Marshall Islands

By Sally Clark | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, Personal Essay

A rare spotting of a blue whale tail fluke. Credit: Mike Baird. Accessed via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 2.0.

Nuclear bomb detectors reveal hidden blue whale population

By Susan D’Agostino | Climate Change, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Red trinitite: L. Bindi and P.J. Steinhardt. Used with permission.

What are atomic bomb quasicrystals, and why do they matter?

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

Bees together. Honeybees (Apis melifera) on wild fennel. Credit: Jack Wolf. CC BY-ND 2.0.

A taste of radioactive honey: The long-lived legacies of nuclear testing

By Susan D’Agostino | Analysis, Climate Change, Nuclear Risk

2014 missile launch of the Iskander-M missile system. North Korea’s March 25, 2021 missile test appears to be an improved variant of the Russian Iskander-style short-range ballistic missile. Credit: Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 4.0.

North Korea’s “tactical-guided” ballistic missile test is no joke for Biden and South Korea

By Duyeon Kim | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

A nuclear weapon test by the US military at Bikini Atoll in 1946. (Credit: US Defense Department image via Wikimedia Commons, licensed with PD-USGov-Military)

After 75 years, it’s time to clean Bikini

By Hart Rapaport, Ivana Nikolić Hughes | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Why Biden should push for ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty

By Togzhan Kassenova | Nuclear Weapons

An anti-neutron bomb demonstrator is arrested for sitting in on 5th Ave, New York, New York, August 13, 1981. (Photo by Allan Tannenbaum/Getty Images)

1961: The neutron bomb

By Freeman Dyson | Magazine, Nuclear Weapons

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