The US strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities have likely inflicted significant damage in the short term. But the technical ...

The NPT-based nonproliferation regime has often worked best by giving countries time and incentives to reconsider fateful ...

Israel has long employed a strategy for dealing with nearby hostile groups like Hamas, one sometimes called "mowing the grass ...

Biosafety level (BSL)-3 facilities exist in a diffuse regulatory environment, where requirements depend on factors such as the kinds of pathogens under study, the type of research being conducted, and ...

The so-called "big, beautiful bill" will lead to millions of fewer people having health coverage in the United States. It will make the country less prepared to detect and respond to a future pandemic ...

The House just voted to pass the One Big Beautiful Bill without a moratorium that would ban states from enforcing AI regulations for 10 years.

Despite achieving their immediate tactical objectives, Israel's and Ukraine's covert operations have yet to show their impact on strategic stability.

Indo-Pacific Studies Center (IPSC), a senior analyst at the National Institute for Deterrence Studies (NIDS), and the ...

In this interview, Ian Stewart, executive director of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Washington, DC, says that, in the aftermath of the bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities, ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is proud to welcome artificial intelligence expert Melanie Mitchell to its Science and ...

The threat of overloaded spent fuel pools. Spent fuel pools at US nuclear plants are almost as densely packed with nuclear fuel as operating reactors—a hazard that has existed for decades and vastly ...

Cold War calculations. Casualty estimates were part of the war planning effort from the beginning, a recognizable element of ascertaining the impact of nuclear strikes on a given country or set of ...