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What Does a Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough Mean for Energy Production and...
On December 5, 2022, scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California focused the power of a stadium-sized laser at a target no larger than a thimble, vaporizing it within a few...
View ArticleAsk a Scientist: Confronting Putin’s Nuclear Threat
Russian President Vladimir Putin is playing a dangerous game of nuclear chicken. Last February, on the very day Russia invaded Ukraine, Putin put the world on notice. “No matter who tries to stand in...
View ArticleCan Talks with China about Nuclear Weapons Be Constructive?
Politico reported US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is “under pressure” to “raise administration concerns” about the size of China’s nuclear arsenal when he travels to Beijing in early February....
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One Year After Russia Invaded Ukraine: What’s Changed for Arms Control?
It’s been one year since Russia’s second invasion of Ukraine, the first being in 2014 when they quickly seized control of Crimea. Those initial days and weeks after the 2022 invasion were filled with...
View ArticleWe Can’t Control Putin—but Sensible Nuclear Weapons Policies Start at Home
On the eve of the anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, there’s been a lot of stock-taking. News outlets are tallying up the casualties and the dead, the cities and regions under attack, the...
View ArticleA Year into the Invasion of Ukraine, What is Happening with Nuclear Weapons?
A year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine—one that was accompanied by an ominous cloud of allusions to nuclear use issued from Moscow—how goes the age of predatory nuclear-weapon states? In short, the...
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Why Would North Korea Conduct Another Nuclear Test?
On March 28th, North Korea unveiled a new type of nuclear warhead—a smaller, more compact tactical warhead with battlefield advantages. The news comes days after North Korea unveiled an underwater...
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Four Things to Look for When You Watch the Oppenheimer Film
The Oppenheimer film comes out July 21st. I have only viewed the trailer, so I am not certain which themes will be central to the film. But I have enough familiarity with the history of the Manhattan...
View ArticleWhat Political Uncertainty in Russia Means for Nuclear Security
The spectacle of the mercenary Wagner group forces advancing on Moscow was shocking but in the end, brief. So much so that the full political and strategic consequences of the crisis remain to be...
View ArticleAsk a Scientist: Scientists and Arms Control from Oppenheimer to Today
On July 21, Oppenheimer, a new major motion picture chronicling the life and legacy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, will open in theaters across the country. Written and...
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The Global South is Leading the Way in Being A Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
An interview with María Antonieta Jáquez Huacuja from the Secretariat for Foreign Affairs of Mexico and Martha Mariana Mendoza Basulto from the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin...
View ArticleOppenheimer Remains Largely Faithful to History, But Some Critical Pieces are...
Read more of UCS’s critical analysis of Oppenheimer and the global security issues it examines here. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is the biggest pop culture event about nuclear weapons since the...
View ArticleThe Sky’s the Limit on Nuclear Weapons Spending, But What Does It Really Get Us?
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released a new report on the projected cost of US nuclear weapons over the next ten years, from 2023 to 2032. Before even reading the first line, I could have...
View ArticleSenate Passes Bill to Help Nuclear Testing Victims, But The Fight for Nuclear...
An interview with Lilly Adams and Dr. Kim Visintine from Coldwater Creek: Just The Facts Please. We also present quotes shared from impacted community members. As audiences learn about the science...
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How Have Nuclear Weapons Evolved Since Oppenheimer and the Trinity Test?
It took the Manhattan project three years to develop a nuclear bomb: and only weeks between the first nuclear test explosion and the use of a nuclear weapon in war. Almost 80 years later – how have...
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Nuclear Frontline Communities Understand Cumulative Burdens—Let’s Get...
An interview blog with Christen Commuso, Community Outreach Specialist for St. Louis at the Missouri Coalition for the Environment. Nuclear frontline communities are people and communities directly...
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On The Future of Nuclear Testing in America
By all accounts, the nuclear weapons landscape is shifting. Media attention around nuclear threats has been reinvigorated by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, North Korea’s frequent missile launches,...
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The Anthropocene as a Nuclear Age
Humanity’s relationship to time is notoriously myopic. We tend to perceive things as permanent and immutable only because their rate of change is imperceptible on the timescales of our own experience....
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The UN Nuclear Ban Treaty is Leading Resistance to Nuclear Autocracy
During the week of November 27th, under a cloud of international conflict and unease, delegates, politicians, activists and academics convened for the Second Meeting of States Parties (2MSP) to the...
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For People Who Have Been Poisoned by Radiation, the Fight Continues in 2024
When I look back at 2023 and consider UCS’s advocacy around the federal Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA), I feel like it was a year of tears. Happy tears, sad tears, angry tears, tears of...
View ArticleSome Things You Need to Know About that New York Times Article on Chinese...
US policy-makers wonder why China is enlarging its nuclear arsenal. How they answer that question will influence US government decisions about the future size and readiness of US nuclear forces....
View ArticleThe Deadly $125-Billion ICBM Boondoggle
Last December, Utah Sen. Mitt Romney issued a press release crowing about all the money he secured for his state in the National Defense Authorization Act, the annual bill that lays out what the...
View ArticleArtificial Intelligence and the Evolving Landscape of Nuclear Strategy
In the ever-evolving landscape of technological advancements, artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming a focal point in both personal and political discussions. Engineered to emulate human...
View ArticleHollywood Rewards Nuclear Arms Control While Washington Dithers
Read more of UCS’s critical analysis of Oppenheimer and the global security issues it examines here. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is a tragedy where the private life of the protagonist is...
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