Problems with the Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor
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Fissile – India has big plans for new nuclear power plants. What does it plan to do with the old ones?
Early in the acclaimed HBO mini-series Chernobyl, a deputy engineer named Anatoly Sitnikov tells his boss, Nikolai Fomin, that there’s been an explosion in the core of the nuclear reactor. “Are…
This is your COVID wake-up call: It is 100 seconds to midnight
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Time to wrap up the nuclear weapons era!
January 15, 2021 Time to wrap up the nuclear weapons era! Statement of the Abolition 2000 Coordinating Committee on the occasions of the Entry into Force of the Treaty on…
Do tactical nukes break international law?
By Jaroslav Krasny | December 31, 2020 In the 2018 Nuclear Posture Review, the Trump Administration announced its intention to expand the US nuclear arsenal under the doctrine of so-called “flexible deterrence,”…