Overconfidence about uncertainty is so extreme among US and NATO national security officials, it can cancel out what they ...

The Iranian regime has the right to enrich uranium under the NPT. But enrichment brings all the dangers associated with ...

Intelligence about nuclear programs, such as the one in Iran, includes a lot of uncertainty—and always has a political ...

Israel’s long-term disruption of water services in Gaza redefines the limits of acceptable suffering of civilians. This weaponization of water echoes historical genocides and threatens to normalize ...

Three former chairs of the US nuclear regulator explain how Trump's executive orders could have unintended safety ...

Stephen G. Burns served as chairman of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission from 2015 to 2017.

Richard A. Meserve is a lawyer and physicist. He served as chairman of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission from 1999 to 2003 and as president of the Carnegie Institution for Science from 2003 to 2014 ...

Emeritus Professor of International Law at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He has served as Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Slovenia to the UN in New York and as UN Assistant ...

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 ...

Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. He recently received a PhD in political science from MIT’s ...

A Bulletin short fiction contest Announcing the Bulletin‘s new short fiction contest… Over the decades, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has published the smartest minds in the fields it covers, ...

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