When the Nobel Prize Committee awarded a network of World War II-era nuclear bomb survivors the 2024 Peace Prize last year, the committee chair emphasized these activists' role in promoting and ...

Aerial view of Hiroshima, Japan, after atomic bombing of August 6, 1945. Whether a nuclear weapon might again be used by one nation against another is a question that has haunted the world for nearly ...

With nuclear brinksmanship so commonplace, it’s easy to feel like the world could easily spiral into a nuclear war. Even some proponents of the “nuclear taboo”—the moral opprobrium against nuclear ...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18, 2025 — From electric cars to artificial intelligence (AI) data centers, the technologies people use every day require a growing need for electricity. In theory, nuclear fusion — a ...

Since the successive Israeli and US air strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites in June, much of the fevered and highly politicized public debate has focused on whether the attacks have “obliterated” Tehran’s ...