As the National Nuclear Security Administration pushes to dramatically accelerate plutonium pit production, it is cutting ...

Climate contrarians questioned evidence of a human fingerprint on climate change in a report commissioned by the Energy ...

Prediction markets now offer the chance to wager on drug trials and regulatory approvals. The consequences could be negative ...

In March 2016, the Chinese government opened the doors to a nuclear security training center in Beijing with assistance from American experts. Sandia National Laboratories had worked with their ...

On October 11, 1986, US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev met in Reykjavik, where they confronted the threat of nuclear weapons and found common ground despite the Cold War.

Michael Stein is chair and professor of Health Law, Policy, and Management at the Boston University School of Public Health. As a physician, his addictions research focuses on behavioral risk-taking ...

Timothy Callaghan is an associate professor of health policy and politics in the Department of Health Law, Policy, and Management at the Boston University School of Public Health. His research focuses ...

Eight decades after the introduction of nuclear weapons, [1] hindsight shows that the interest in this emblematic weapon system of the second half of the 20th century has always been heightened by the ...

Since President Eisenhower more-or-less invented the term military-industrial complex, US defense spending has grown, dramatically in some eras, leveling off a bit in others, but overall heading ...

Modern AI might be just the bridge a would-be terrorist needs to cross between thinking about a biological attack and pulling one off. Having hoovered up a vast swath of human knowledge, scientific ...

“We’re going to live in a world where all of the capital and power concentrates into the hands of five or six companies. That’s not a free society. That’s totalitarianism.” This is how Joseph ...

A new nuclear policy is taking shape in secret, crafted by a small group of Pentagon officials, that will give President Donald Trump more ways to start a nuclear war. Little is known about the ...