Scientists Debunk Claim That Iran’s 2024 Earthquake Was a Nuclear Weapons Test
Minutes after a magnitude 4.5 earthquake hit Iran on October 5, 2024, rumors swirled that it wasn’t natural—claims that ...
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An appreciation: How physicist Evgeny Velikhov helped end the US-Soviet nuclear arms race
Evgeny Velikhov's many accomplishments in reducing the threat from nuclear weapons—during and after the Cold War—are ...
It’s 89 Seconds Until Doomsday and Her First Day on the Job
Alexandra Bell is bringing more than a decade of experience in nuclear policy to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the ...
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Revisited Realities of Nuclear Violence in Silent Fallout: Baby Teeth Speak
Originally from Under the Cloud: The Decades of Nuclear Testing by Richard Miller, and featured in Silent Fallout  From 1959-1970, the communities of Saint Louis, Missouri were tasked with a unique ...
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The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Provides a Way to Avert Nuclear Catastrophe
Will the world ever be free of the menace of nuclear annihilation? There was a promising start along these lines during the late twentieth century, ...
Earthquake or Explosion? Scientists Shut Down the Viral Nuclear Weapons Test Hoax
A scientific investigation dismantles the widespread claim that an Iranian earthquake was actually a secret nuclear test.
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Study debunks nuclear test misinformation following 2024 Iran earthquake
JHU-led study on 2024 Iran earthquake shows potential consequences of mishandling and misinterpreting scientific information, ...
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Iranian ‘nuclear weapons test’ was actually an earthquake
An earthquake that struck Iran last year was misreported as a covert nuclear weapons test amid rising global tension, ...
US to test aging plutonium in its nuclear arsenal - media
The US is planning an experiment to check the effectiveness of the aging plutonium in its atomic weapons National Public ...
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Doomsday Clock Warns Us of 'The Day After' | Opinion
His successor, President John F. Kennedy, likewise thought the same and the efforts of both presidents led to the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty with the Soviet Union. The 1963 treaty banned ...