DOGE cuts have hit some of the country’s top nuclear scientists.

DOGE has gutted the nuclear safety agency.

DOGE insisted they only fired non-critical staff, but that’s not the case at all.

Former Vikings punter Chris Kluwe was protesting during a City Council meeting.

The Trump administration fired hundreds of employees at perhaps the one agency where stability is needed most.

The Department of Energy tried to clarify why DOGE staffers suddenly got some I.T. access to a department that oversees the U.S. nuclear stockpile.

Donald Trump’s administration has wiped thousands of pages from government websites.

Donald Trump doesn’t appear to fully understand how disarmament works.

It’s hard to imagine a worse time for the world to fall back into the proliferation of the deadliest weapons mankind has ever wrought.

Miners in the Democratic Republic of Congo face few protections in the global rush for metals for the energy transition—as well as a toxic legacy from a previous rush to mine for nuclear weapons.

Putin says he’ll do whatever it takes in Ukraine. Biden is warning of “Armageddon.” Sixty years after the U.S.–Soviet standoff over Cuba, why is nuclear war still an ever-present worry?

A survey of the world’s worst nuclear disasters highlights the catastrophic consequences of technical hubris.

Bellicose and confusing remarks about regime change in Moscow won’t help end the war—but they could escalate it.

Russia is thought to have around 2,000 tactical nuclear weapons. And that’s about all we know.

Americans haven’t thought seriously about the threat of nuclear war in a long time. Now, as climate change accelerates, the peril and promise of nuclear technology feels more fraught than ever.

Biden, like his German counterpart, is asking his country to sacrifice for the greater good of punishing Russia. Will British Prime Minister Boris Johnson do the same?

A new history of the Cuban missile crisis emphasizes how close the world came to destruction—and how severe a threat the weapons still pose.

Scholars have long relied on correspondence to peer into the minds of America’s presidents. But what if the letters were written by someone else?

Trump’s childish nuclear gambling and obsessive jingoism have combined in a strategy that could end arms control as we know it.

Fears of the nuclear threat may have subsided with the end of the Cold War, but the danger did not.