Tag: Nuclear weapons
H-bomb creator Richard Garwin was a giant in science, technology and policy
Matthew Bunn, Harvard Kennedy School
Richard Garwin, who died on May 13, 2025, at the age of 97, was...
How and where is nuclear waste stored in the US?
Gerald Frankel, The Ohio State University
Around the U.S., about 90,000 tons of nuclear waste is stored at over...
How US military planning has shifted away from fighting terrorism to...
Eric Rosenbach, Harvard Kennedy School
President Joe Biden’s recent approval of a major shift in U.S. nuclear weapons strategy...
How the Soviets stole nuclear secrets and targeted Oppenheimer, the ‘father...
Calder Walton, Harvard Kennedy School
“Oppenheimer,” the epic new movie directed by Christopher Nolan, takes audiences into the mind...
What are tactical nuclear weapons? An international security expert explains and...
Nina Srinivasan Rathbun, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Tactical nuclear weapons have burst onto the international...
What countries have nuclear weapons, and where are they?
Miles A. Pomper, Middlebury and Vasilii Tuganov, Middlebury
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has raised fears among the public...
US and Iran have a long, troubled history
Jeffrey Fields, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Relations between the United States and Iran have been fraught for...
Why the US has nuclear weapons in Turkey – and may...
Miles A. Pomper, Middlebury
As the Syrian crisis pits Turkish troops against former U.S.-allied Kurdish forces, Pentagon officials have been reviewing plans to remove 50...
EXPLORING NATURE
Sea level doesn’t rise at the same rate everywhere – we...
Shaina Sadai, Five College Consortium and Ambarish Karmalkar, University of Rhode Island
When polar ice sheets melt, the effects...
