As the National Nuclear Security Administration pushes to dramatically accelerate plutonium pit production, it is cutting ...

Prediction markets now offer the chance to wager on drug trials and regulatory approvals. The consequences could be negative ...

Michael Stein is chair and professor of Health Law, Policy, and Management at the Boston University School of Public Health. As a physician, his addictions research focuses on behavioral risk-taking ...

Timothy Callaghan is an associate professor of health policy and politics in the Department of Health Law, Policy, and ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published by Inside Climate News. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On the heels of the hottest ...

A new nuclear policy is taking shape in secret, crafted by a small group of Pentagon officials, that will give President Donald Trump more ways to start a nuclear war. Little is known about the ...

How much does war, and the preparation and recovery from it, contribute to the climate crisis? Nobody knows, because there is no comprehensive accounting of global warming emissions from militaries, ...

Since President Eisenhower more-or-less invented the term military-industrial complex, US defense spending has grown, dramatically in some eras, leveling off a bit in others, but overall heading ...

The world is witnessing a renewed interest in nuclear weapons. From nuclear modernization plans in the United States, to growing anxieties in Europe and East Asia about the reliability of the US ...

Editor’s note: This article is published as part of a continuing collaboration between the European Leadership Network and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Climate change is transforming the ...

“We’re going to live in a world where all of the capital and power concentrates into the hands of five or six companies. That’s not a free society. That’s totalitarianism.” This is how Joseph ...

For most of the past three decades, one might almost have said the United Kingdom had a glowing record on nuclear non-proliferation: Britain was the only major nuclear power to operate a minimum ...