The Pentagon's $3.2 billion bet on space-based boost-phase missile defense ignores basic orbital dynamics, offering no real ...

Drone technology, once confined to great powers like the United States and China, has spread to smaller states and non-state ...

The US military has a long, complicated relationship with climate change. Beginning in the mid-1950s, it paid for research ...

Local governments negotiating data center deals lack guidance because experienced communities are unwilling to share lessons ...

How much does war, and the preparation and recovery from it, contribute to the climate crisis? Nobody knows, because there is no comprehensive accounting of global warming emissions from militaries, ...

Scores of researchers and scientific groups have been warning that research toward the creation of mirror life should not be conducted. Not everyone is convinced.

Renewed talks with Pyongyang require more than impulsive concessions. To draw Kim back to the table, Washington must ...

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 ...

The Trump administration continues to flounder about its nuclear aims in the Middle East. The on-again, off-again war to get Iran to give up its nuclear program appears no closer to resolution, ...

Editor’s note: This article is published as part of a continuing collaboration between the European Leadership Network and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Climate change is transforming the ...

Nuclear energy recently crossed a global milestone. In 2025, the share of all electrical energy flowing in the world’s grids coming from nuclear power plants was just 8.8 percent, roughly half of what ...

The 11th Review Conference of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) ended last week as it had in 2015 and 2022, deadlocked over a single regional issue, in this case Iran. The draft declaration that ...