The daughter of an Oak Ridge engineer seeks to understand her father's role in the Manhattan Project—and fills unknowns with ...

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The US military's confidence in the president having sole authority to launch a nuclear weapon went down when Trump ...

After two-and-a-half days of meetings in a mostly sunny midsummer Chicago, concerned Nobel Prize laureates and many of the ...

Many narrators continue to portray Oppenheimer as the father of the atomic bomb. But crediting him was part of a strategy to ...

Oppenheimer was first a brilliant scientist, then a war hero, then a political traitor, then a nobody, then a martyr, now a ...

Tremendous progress has been made in reducing global nuclear stockpiles and nuclear risks, but we are now heading in the ...

Dustin Mulvaney traces the current deregulatory bonanza that the Trump administration has unleashed on public lands and waters to the Wise Use movement of the 1980s and the Sagebrush Rebellion that ...

The US government is rushing nuclear reactor deployment on federal sites to fuel its global AI race. But it may come at considerable costs and safety risks.

With decades of national security experience, Jill Hruby joins the Bulletin’s Science and Security Board—the group that sets the Doomsday Clock—to help confront today’s most urgent man-made threats.

Cold War in the United States. He served on the faculty of the University of Baltimore, where he taught about the Cold War’s impact on ordinary Americans’ lives, and other social, political, and ...