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

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

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

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

Israel and United States' strikes on Iran could leave lasting health, environmental, and climate damage to the country.

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 ...

Eliminating the potential for Iran to hide behind a temporary truce or interim agreement—only to then surprise the world with ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

Professor Laurence Boisson de Chazournes has long been engaged in teaching international law at the University of Geneva and held an Annual Chair dedicated to Freshwaters in international law at the ...

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 ...