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
The practice of keeping nuclear weapons on alert evolved during the Cold War, as the United States and the Soviet Union deployed fully-armed nuclear weapons that could strike the adversary before it could retaliate.
In June 2013, Obama announced his nuclear arms policy goals, asserting his support for a one-third reduction in deployed US strategic nuclear weapons and for “bold” cuts in US and Russian tactical weapons in Europe.
Don't miss the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' three-part series on nuclear power in the November/December 2012 issue, the January/February 2013 issue, and the March/April 2013 issue. The Bulletin gathers some of the world's top nuclear energy experts for this special series to answer the question: Just how easy would it be to unplug from nuclear?
In 2009, US President Obama delivered his first foreign policy speech in Prague, Czech Republic. During this speech, he announced his commitment to a world without nuclear weapons.