FMWG partner the International Panel on Fissile Materials (IPFM) outlines the Department of Energy’s new initiative to build and operate a new small-capacity national military uranium enrichment plant could be decades premature. The plan will cost between $3.1 -11.3 billion. Frank von Hippel finds that, “DOE’s proposal to have a new national enrichment plant on […]
Reducing the Risks of Nuclear War through Education
By Luisa Kenausis, Scoville Fellow Nuclear weapons present an existential danger to the world. Over a few generations now, the world has wrestled with tough questions about these weapons: do they make us safer or less safe? Can we continue to rely on nuclear deterrence to protect us? How can we reduce the risks of […]
In the News: Beyza Unal on Cyber Armageddon
Beyza Unal, Senior Research Fellow, Chatham House, examines the ways in which an offensive cyber operation against nuclear weapons would operate and why one has not been executed thus far. She argues, “The suspicion that nuclear weapons systems may be unreliable as a result of cyberattacks should be the basis for a reconsideration of how […]
In The News: Steering Committee Member Irma Arguello published in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
The global impacts of a terrorist nuclear attack: What would happen? What should we do? explores the consequences of a nuclear terrorist attack. The detonation of a nuclear device by a state or non-state actor is possible, as an improvised nuclear device is technically not very difficult to create. “For more than a decade, Al […]
Op-ed: Three Strikes Means Bolton Should Be Out
Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell and Policy Analyst James McKeon wrote an op-ed in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists detailing concerns with John Bolton’s foreign policy blunders. “While it might surprise some, there are actually standards of civility in Washington. There is an understanding that to account for unforeseen changes in hierarchies (a subordinate […]