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
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.
The authors calculate that some 125,000 nuclear warheads have been built since 1945, about 97 percent of them by the United States and the Soviet Union and Russia.
Former Los Alamos National Laboratory director Siegfried Hecker details one of the world’s great nonproliferation stories—the effort to secure the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan.
Mansour SalsabiliEhud EiranMartin B. MalinAyman Khalil
The place: Helsinki. The time: 2012. The event: A landmark conference that would mark the greatest success so far in long-running efforts to establish in the Middle East a zone free of weapons of mass destruction. The conference didn't happen. Does that mean the process is dead?
Isaac Newton observed, in so many words, that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. What does this have to do with the proposed Middle Eastern zone free of weapons of mass destruction?
India, Pakistan, and China play a nuclear posturing game that is imprecise and dangerous. They’d do better to engage and learn one another’s true security concerns.