The Nuclear Regulatory Commission may soon loosen radiation exposure safety standards at nuclear plants and operations.

Despite being highly anticipated, the sudden change in public rhetoric about this year's Zapad strategic military exercise ...

Our current political climate is just as unusual and concerning as the current state of our planetary climate.

The quandaries posed by the nuclear film pantheon are the same ones experts in the nuclear threat reduction community face ...

In this video, Jeffrey Lewis explains why it is so incredibly difficult to convey the size and destructive force of nuclear ...

Ominous trends continue to point the world toward global catastrophe. The war in Ukraine and the widespread and growing reliance on nuclear weapons increase the risk of nuclear escalation. China, ...

Jeff Terry is a professor of physics at the Illinois Institute of Technology, where his main research focus is on energy systems. His group works to develop new ways of dealing with radioactive waste; ...

An extraordinary three-part series on Israeli television, The Atom and Me, lays out how the country got its nuclear weapons. It takes for granted what anyone who pays attention has known for years.

Although Latin America contributes only about 10 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, many of its territories rank among the most climate-vulnerable on the planet.

The US nuclear power industry is justifiably apprehensive about its future under the second Trump administration. President Donald Trump’s predilection for taking a sledgehammer to both the federal ...

Founded by scientists and engineers of the Manhattan Project in the wake of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has been alerting humanity to the ...

The tourists stopped to spread picnic blankets at a scenic point overlooking the picturesque lake of Lough Tay in Ireland’s Wicklow Mountains. But the four scientists trekked on, climbing toward the ...