The Doomsday Clock is an internationally recognized design that conveys how close we are to destroying our civilization with dangerous technologies of our own making. First and foremost among these are nuclear weapons, but the dangers include climate-changing technologies, emerging... Read More
Who can be mobilized as a counterweight to the perpetuation of the nuclear arsenal?Workers in the nuclear weapons complex, doctors, independent scientists, and journalists all have direct interests in nuclear disarmament.
Here are the three main methods that would likely be used to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons arsenal, if the Assad regime follows through on its announced desire to join the Chemical Weapons Convention.
Responding to a discussion on the ways in which a nuclear detonation would constitute a disaster for poor countries' development prospects, the author questions why so little attention has been devoted to nuclear renunciation.
An environmental activist’s e-book unpersuasively argues for 800 new nuclear power plants as the solution to climate change, making many of the same mistakes as the film Pandora’s Promise.
The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station needs a new plan for dealing with millions of gallons of radioactive water on its grounds. The plan should include better public outreach, improved cleanup processes and capacities, and, when radiation standards are met, a controlled release of water into the sea.
A nuclear detonation, says the author, would render efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals essentially useless in Africa; and African nations must take a leading role in the push for nuclear disarmament.
Imagining the aftermath of a nuclear detonation, the author argues that developing countries would be most affected along three dimensions: exacerbation of poor nutritional conditions, lost livelihoods, and public health.
The author argues that a nuclear detonation would violate several basic principles of international humanitarian law, and that developing countries, lacking many fundamental capacities, would be very poorly positioned to respond to a nuclear disaster.