As the National Nuclear Security Administration pushes to dramatically accelerate plutonium pit production, it is cutting ...

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Michael Stein is chair and professor of Health Law, Policy, and Management at the Boston University School of Public Health. As a physician, his addictions research focuses on behavioral risk-taking ...

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 ...

Forty years ago this year, the Hollywood film Back to the Future featured an eccentric scientist, “Doc” Brown (played by Christopher Lloyd), accidentally sending his teenage friend Marty McFly ...

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 ...

As the Iranian nuclear program saga plays out, one diplomatic action has been widely expected: Iran may declare its withdrawal from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). [1] Such a withdrawal ...

On September 3, the People’s Republic of China unveiled a plethora of new weapons in a parade to celebrate the 80th anniversary of its victory over Japan. The parade revealed new strategic missile ...

Friederike Frieß is a senior scientist at the Institute for Safety/Security and Risk Sciences at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna. She received a PhD in physics (2017) ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published by Canada’s National Observer. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. This year’s coast-to-coast wildfires in Canada have already ...

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 ...