Whether it's Barack Obama or John McCain, the next U.S. president should heed the salient words of legendary anti-nuclear weapons advocate Joseph Rotblat.
Halting the production of fissile material would strengthen the nonproliferation regime, reduce the risk of nuclear terrorism, and help achieve nuclear disarmament.
Efforts to replace oil in the military services have been haphazard, what the Pentagon really needs is a comprehensive energy policy for the future.
Congress should balance biosecurity demands with the need to develop vaccines and medicines to treat the diseases caused by select agents.
If negotiations with Iran to give up its nuclear ambitions are to be successful, Tehran's regional neighbors must take a seat at the table.
By every measure, the program to transform Russian highly enriched uranium into U.S. electricity has been a great nonproliferation success--exactly why it must continue into the future.
Infused with oil and natural gas profits and tasked with a robust civil nuclear energy agenda, Russia's once-beleaguered closed cities are being transformed.
While China continues to rely predominantly on coal-generated power, Beijing has made impressive gains in alternative energy and efficiencies.
Whether it's superbugs, asteroid impacts, or nuclear attack, the potential of human extinction makes thinking about the end of the world more than an academic exercise.
Much to Tokyo's dismay, in the last few years, IAEA inspectors all-too-often have discovered components from Japanese companies at nuclear facilities in Libya and North Korea.
Sharing control of the nuclear fuel cycle might help stop the spread of dangerous nuclear knowledge and lead to the ultimate goal of eliminating nuclear weapons.
The most expensive cleanup in IAEA history is underway in Serbia. Yet, funding is still required to remove poorly stored spent fuel and a mothballed research reactor.
The United States must resist the urge to use climate change as the latest excuse to continue to fund the war on terror at record levels.
Without a doubt, the situation in Georgia will change the U.S.-Russian dynamic. The former U.S. ambassador to Russia explains how.
Washington maintains that it needed to down its USA-193 spy satellite because the satellite's fuel tank posed a health hazard. Yet, even NASA's analysis suggests otherwise.
The investigation of the 2001 anthrax mailings demonstrates that the United States has a long way to go before it's capable of preventing a bioterrorist attack.
Without domestic uranium reserves, India is struggling to fuel its nuclear industry. The controversial U.S.-India deal could solve the problem, but nuclear might not deliver anyway.
The global plan for containing laboratory samples of poliovirus could hold the keys to securing a range of dangerous bacteria and viruses.