How to dismantle a nuclear bomb MIT team successfully tests a new method for verification of weapons reduction. How do weapons inspectors verify that a nuclear bomb has been dismantled? An u... Read more
A new RAND Corporation paper finds that artificial intelligence has the potential to upend the foundations of nuclear deterrence by the year 2040. While AI-controlled doomsday machines are c... Read more
New isotope-detection method could prove compliance but avoid divulging secrets. In past negotiations aimed at reducing the arsenals of the world’s nuclear superpowers, chiefly the U.S. and... Read more
The United States, Russia and China are now aggressively pursuing a new generation of smaller, less destructive nuclear weapons. The buildups threaten to revive a Cold War-era arms race and... Read more
For those titillated by Strangelovian fantasies of nuclear apocalypse, the early 1980s were a golden age. That was the height of the Cold War, when nuclear arms and rhetoric escalated, and P... Read more