Silence from the US side after a third round of indirect talks and frustration expressed by President Donald Trump set the stage for military strikes.
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As the United States and Russia signal a return to nuclear testing, Australia’s remote monitoring station plays a crucial role in global verification.
The treaty is the last of the agreements put in place after the cold war to lapse.
The demise of the treaty will bring a definitive and alarming end to nuclear restraint between the two nuclear powers.
A debate about whether Japan should possess nuclear weapons has resurfaced, much to the dismay of China.
The UK is being pulled into a new nuclear arms race.
All of the nine nuclear-armed nations are investing huge sums in new weapons. And the numbers of nuclear weapons “available for use” is climbing again.
The Russian military claims to have flown its Burevestnik nuclear-powered cruise missile 8,700 miles over 15 hours.
If billions are being invested to power submarines not homes, the public deserves to know.
80 years after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, many of Orwell’s predictions have come true.
In an ever more dangerous world the focus should be on how we can limit, not increase, the risk of major nuclear conflicts.
The voices of the Hibakusha offer not only memory, but also moral clarity in an age of growing peril.
In the wake of the US attacks, the international community asked itself how it could ensure that such horrors were never repeated.
Israeli nuclear expert Avner Cohen talks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about how Israel has been allowed to continue with its nuclear ambiguity.
A nuclear engineer explains how the International Atomic Energy Agency monitors peaceful nuclear programs, and why it’s worrisome that Iran stopped cooperating with the IAEA.
The recent strikes could convince Iran and other states that building nuclear weapons is the only way to prevent such attacks.
In the majority of cases, diplomacy has played a pivotal role in convincing nuclear-seeking nations to relinquish their pursuit of nuclear weapons.
A scholar of intelligence and strategy explains why battle damage assessments are so challenging – and why the process has become politicized.
Iran has a long history of enriching uranium in an effort to develop nuclear weapons. It’s not clear how far the US attack set back Iran’s production of bomb-grade uranium.
Both Israel and the US claim a nuclear-armed Iran would pose an existential threat. It wouldn’t. Here’s why.
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