AMSTERDAM (AP) — The Netherlands opened the National Holocaust Museum on Sunday with a ceremony presided over by the Dutch king as well as Israeli President Isaac Herzog, whose presence…
Rape, murder and theft have long been facts of life Haitians have suffered through 19 changes of leadership in the 38 years since the Duvalier dictatorship fell. The 20th is nigh. As The…
WASHINGTON (AP) — For the ninth straight month, Earth has obliterated global heat records — with February, the winter as a whole and the world’s oceans setting new high-temperature marks,…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate passed legislation Thursday that would compensate Americans exposed to radiation by the government by renewing a law initially passed more than three decades ago. The bill by…
By Walter Pincus, March 7, 2024 There has been talk in the national security community lately about the so-called “merits” of resuming underground or even atmospheric nuclear weapons tests. I think…
By Sulgiye Park, Rodney C. Ewing, March 7, 2024 Since Trinity—the first atomic bomb test on the morning of July 16, 1945, near Alamogordo, New Mexico—the nuclear-armed states have conducted 2,056 nuclear tests…
By Julien de Troullioud de Lanversin, Christopher Fichtlscherer, March 7, 2024 In the past, countries used full-yield nuclear tests to verify the performance of their nuclear warheads, develop new warhead designs, expand…
By Rachel Minyoung Lee, March 7, 2024 Never has there been such a long waiting period in the lead-up to a country’s nuclear test as North Korea’s seventh nuclear test. Leader…
The last few years were not a good time for arms control treaties. In 2023, Russia suspended its participation in New START and formally pulled out of the Treaty on…
By Steven Pifer, March 7, 2024 Beginning in 1963, the United States has accepted increasingly stringent limitations on its ability to test nuclear weapons. Efforts to restrict nuclear testing culminated in…