Photo: The Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant, which has six 1,000-MW units, is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe. Courtesy: Energoatom
Today, I have learned from IAEA staff on the site of the serious situation that developed last night at Zaporizhzhya...
“Nuclear weapons are nonsense. Three-quarters of a century later, we must ask what we’ve learned from the mushroom cloud that swelled above this city in 1945”, he urged during the solemn event at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park attended by...
Ohio Class nuclear-powered submarine. Photo
When faced with the option of acquiring nuclear technology, states have rarely refused. Since the splitting of the atom and the deployment of atomic weapons in war, the acquisition of a nuclear capacity has been...
By Matthew Bunn
Photo: A scene from a Ventura County, California public service video on preparing for and responding to a nuclear terrorism event.
As Americans reeled after the 9/11 attacks 20 years ago, one question was at the front of...
With the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) in place, is there an optimistic scenario of a nuclear-weapon free world? This might certainly be a difficult but persistently challenging question the world has been grappling with ever...
In the midst of celebrating the Olympics in Japan, much of the world appears to have forgotten one of the most shocking turning points in history. On Monday Aug. 6, 1945, the United States unleashed an atomic bomb on...
By Halley Posner
Watch the Bulletin virtual program, “The UK’s new nuclear posture: What it means for the global nuclear order” featuring Hans Kristensen and Heather Williams in conversation with Julian Borger.
In this conversation, you will hear about how the United Kingdom’s decision to increase their nuclear stockpile limit fits into...
By John Laforge
It’s now 10 years since the catastrophic triple meltdowns of reactors at Fukushima in Japan. As Joseph Mangano of the Radiation and Public Health project put it three years ago, “Enormous amounts of radioactive chemicals, including cesium,...
By Talei Luscia Mangioni, Alicia Sanders-Zakre
It’s time to turn back the clock.
Last year, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced that the Doomsday Clock would be set at 100 seconds to midnight because humanity faced the dual existential perils...
On January 22, 2021, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) became international law for the 122 states who signed the agreement in July 2017. The TPNW, as with most treaties, is summed up in one sentence...
