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 daily.

The declassified document reveals an urgent need for an international review of the proliferation risks of HALEU.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Last month, during a slow-moving heat wave that smothered much of the United States, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment reported at least 2,000 cattle had died from heat stress. In 2021, ...