What Gates is putting forward aren’t legitimate arguments that can be made in good faith. They are shopworn fossil fuel ...

Assuming that the missile in "A House of Dynamite" carried a several-hundred-kiloton nuclear warhead and detonated directly above Chicago’s Loop, what would ensue in the seconds, minutes, days, and ...

Photograph of 74-kiloton nuclear bomb test Hood, conducted in 1957 at an altitude of 1,500 feet. Hood was the highest-yield atmospheric test to be conducted at the site, according to page 54 of the ...

North Korea has turned deception into strategy, weaponizing ambiguity to mask nuclear progress. Its success reveals how ...

Allison Stanger explains how Big Tech CEOs became more powerful than some elected heads of state, and why citizens should be concerned about Big Tech’s ability to influence government policy.

Patricia Jaworek is a director for the Nuclear Threat Initiative’s Global Nuclear Policy Program. She leads NTI’s activities to advance understanding of the global and long-term effects of nuclear ...

Isabelle Williams is a senior director at NTI. She leads and supports projects across NTI, including efforts to reduce nuclear risks and advance understanding of the global and long-term effects of ...

In 1978, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists published a cover story titled “Is mankind warming the Earth?” The answer then, as now, was an “unqualified ‘yes.’” Between July 2023 and June 2024, the ...

Francesca Giovannini is the executive director of the Project on Managing the Atom at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs. In addition, she is a ...

Richard F. Post (1918-2015) was a physicist and the head of the magnetic mirror program in controlled thermonuclear research at what was then the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Livermore, California ...