As the National Nuclear Security Administration pushes to dramatically accelerate plutonium pit production, it is cutting ...

Climate contrarians questioned evidence of a human fingerprint on climate change in a report commissioned by the Energy ...

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Michael Stein is chair and professor of Health Law, Policy, and Management at the Boston University School of Public Health. As a physician, his addictions research focuses on behavioral risk-taking ...

Timothy Callaghan is an associate professor of health policy and politics in the Department of Health Law, Policy, and ...

Editor’s note: This article was commissioned by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and is also published in WIRED. Yoshua Bengio, Mila’s scientific director, is a pioneer in artificial neural ...

For most of the past three decades, one might almost have said the United Kingdom had a glowing record on nuclear non-proliferation: Britain was the only major nuclear power to operate a minimum ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published by Canada’s National Observer. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. This year’s coast-to-coast wildfires in Canada have already ...

A new nuclear policy is taking shape in secret, crafted by a small group of Pentagon officials, that will give President Donald Trump more ways to start a nuclear war. Little is known about the ...

This article was originally published by Mother Jones. Nuclear war is a topic few care to think about. We sometimes call it unthinkable. But we need to think carefully, and to talk—particularly with ...