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 ...

On October 11, 1986, US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev met in Reykjavik, where they confronted the threat of nuclear weapons and found common ground despite the Cold War.

In March 2016, the Chinese government opened the doors to a nuclear security training center in Beijing with assistance from American experts. Sandia National Laboratories had worked with their ...

Prediction markets now offer the chance to wager on drug trials and regulatory approvals. The consequences could be negative outcomes for trial participants, fewer medicines for the public, and a ...

In the summer of 2023, as Russia threatened nuclear strikes against Ukraine, we conducted the most comprehensive academic survey of global attitudes toward nuclear weapons ever undertaken. Across 24 ...

When Jacob Coxon resigned earlier this month from Anthropic, citing dramatic concerns about AI racing humans toward extinction, it capped several years of public defections by employees warning that ...

Timothy Callaghan is an associate professor of health policy and politics in the Department of Health Law, Policy, and Management at the Boston University School of Public Health. His research focuses ...