The horrors of nuclear weapons testing
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…
Environmental impacts of underground nuclear weapons testing
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…
New confidence-building measures can reduce tensions around subcritical 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…
To do or not to do: Pyongyang’s seventh nuclear test calculations
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…
Preserving the nuclear test ban after Russia revoked its CTBT ratification
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…
The logic for US ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
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…
Introduction: Nuclear testing in the 21st century—legacies, tensions, and risks
By François Diaz-Maurin, March 7, 2024 Despite an international treaty banning all nuclear detonations, the issue of nuclear weapons testing is taking center stage once again. Last November, Russia officially…
Frozen in time: Families of those on missing Flight 370 cannot shake off their grief without answers
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Over the past decade, Grace Subathirai Nathan graduated from law school, got married, opened a law firm and had two babies. But part of her…
New rules will force U.S. firms to divulge role in warming the planet
The Securities and Exchange Commission votes 3-2 to require companies to disclose their emissions and the climate risks they face Corporations will have to share key details about their role…
UN sexual violence envoy: Israelis were raped, sexually tortured on October 7
UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict finds damning evidence of rape, sexual violence, necrophilia during visit to Israel A mission team led on a trip…
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