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Insights from emerging experts on nuclear weapons and AI

This year’s contributors to the Bulletin ’s “Voices of Tomorrow” section, which features essays and opinion pieces by rising experts, focused heavily on the threats posed by nuclear weapons. We also ...
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What really prevents nations from making nuclear bombs

Nuclear bombs do not rely on size, they rely on physics. Here is how chain reactions and hydrogen bombs unleash power on a ...
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Experts: Full nuclear weapons tests would backfire on US

Resuming full testing of nuclear weapons - as President Donald Trump called for last week - would be unnecessary, costly, undermine nonproliferation efforts, and empower the nation's adversaries to ...
UVA Today

For 80 years, nuclear weapons have been the unused threat

In the 80 years since World War II, which ended with the use of two atomic bombs, the world has maintained a tenuous relationship with nuclear weapons. Philip Potter, professor of public policy at the ...
Newsweek

Map Shows Nuclear Weapons Sites That Could Be Hit By Major Furlough

A new map highlights the U.S. nuclear weapons sites that could be significantly impacted by the ongoing government shutdown. The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), responsible for ...
CNN

US nuclear weapons testing can forever scar a nation. Just ask the Marshall Islands

President Donald Trump’s call for the United States to resume testing of nuclear weapons last week has experts scratching their heads. What did he really mean – exploding a warhead or testing delivery ...

Iran vows harsh response to any attack as Trump says he'd "knock the hell out of them" if nuclear work resumes

After meeting with Israel's Netanyahu, Trump said he'd heard Iran is trying to rebuild its nuclear program, "and if they are, ...
Al-Monitor

Clean-up of Iran site likely to erase any evidence of nuclear work, research group says

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Iran has launched a speedy clean-up operation at a nuclear-related site in northern Tehran hit by Israeli airstrikes that will likely remove evidence of any nuclear weapons ...
AOL

Opinion - Trump has good reasons to want nuclear weapons tests

Discussing nuclear weapons earlier this month, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said the nation “is committed to peaceful development, follows a policy of ‘no first use’ of nuclear ...
Politifact

Work to stop spread of nuclear weapons inches forward

During the campaign, Barack Obama promised to "stop the development of new nuclear weapons; work with Russia to take U.S. and Russian ballistic missiles off hair-trigger alert; seek dramatic ...
Wall Street Journal

Nuclear Weapons Programs

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. President Biden said the U.S. won’t use sanctions relief as a tool to re-engage Tehran in negotiations over the 2015 nuclear accord, indicating he ...