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Dirty Smokestack

20 companies, 33 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions

By Dan Drollette Jr | Climate Change, What We’re Reading

for sale sign flooded

How climate change could trigger recession

By Dawn Stover | Climate Change, What We’re Reading

INF inspection of Pershing II missiles

Scientists have a new technique for verifying a dismantled nuke

By John Krzyzaniak | Nuclear Weapons, What We’re Reading

In other news: climate crisis, chemical weapons, nuclear brinksmanship, etc.

By Thomas Gaulkin | Climate Change, Nuclear Risk, What We’re Reading

An unmanned British Royal Navy vessel patrols a harbor near Troia, Portugal, during a NATO exercise. Credit: NATO.

NATO’s robot navy hints at the future of warfare

By Matt Field | Disruptive Technologies, What We’re Reading

Bulletin author wins MacArthur “genius” award

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The second of two reactors at China’s Taishan nuclear power plant, a Chinese-French joint venture, entered commercial operation on September 7, 2019. Credit: EDF

An “undeclared phaseout” of the nuclear industry

By Dawn Stover | Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, What We’re Reading

Vela Double Flash Signal

Double Flash: Forty years ago, the Carter administration covered up a presumed Israeli nuclear test

By John Krzyzaniak | Nuclear Weapons, What We’re Reading

A sampling of front pages from newspapers in Shiraz on Wednesday, September 11, 2019.

The Abadeh site: What Iranians are saying about Netanyahu’s revelations

By John Krzyzaniak | Nuclear Risk, What We’re Reading

Smallpox virus virions. Credit: Fred Murphy / Sylvia Whitfield / CDC.

An explosion rocked a Russian research facility known for housing the smallpox virus

By Matt Field | Biosecurity, What We’re Reading

Attacks on Saudi oil facilities raise US-Iran tensions

By John Mecklin | Special Topics, What We’re Reading

New START support by state

The American public supports New START. Will the Trump administration?

By John Krzyzaniak | Nuclear Weapons, What We’re Reading