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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It is often said—somewhat accusingly—that it isn’t technical issues that stand in the way of siting a US geologic repository for highly radioactive waste, but political and social ones. In fact, the ...

Political and military leaders around the world are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to improve the pace and quality of their decisions, including in scenarios that could lead to ...

Since President Eisenhower more-or-less invented the term military-industrial complex, US defense spending has grown, dramatically in some eras, leveling off a bit in others, but overall heading ...

How does the COVID-19 pandemic compare to viral outbreaks of the past? As the world lurches into a fourth year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the official death count based on public disclosures is ...

The world is witnessing a renewed interest in nuclear weapons. From nuclear modernization plans in the United States, to growing anxieties in Europe and East Asia about the reliability of the US ...