Oppenheimer was first a brilliant scientist, then a war hero, then a political traitor, then a nobody, then a martyr, now a ...

The US military's confidence in the president having sole authority to launch a nuclear weapon went down when Trump ...

After two-and-a-half days of meetings in a mostly sunny midsummer Chicago, concerned Nobel Prize laureates and many of the ...

Tremendous progress has been made in reducing global nuclear stockpiles and nuclear risks, but we are now heading in the ...

If Trump is interested in resolving this crisis, diplomacy remains the best method for preventing a nuclear breakout in Iran and beyond.

Many narrators continue to portray Oppenheimer as the father of the atomic bomb. But crediting him was part of a strategy to make nuclear weapons look like an unambiguous force of good—not of evil.

The daughter of an Oak Ridge engineer seeks to understand her father's role in the Manhattan Project—and fills unknowns with ...

Cold War in the United States. He served on the faculty of the University of Baltimore, where he taught about the Cold War’s impact on ordinary Americans’ lives, and other social, political, and ...

Peder Anker is a professor of history of science at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in history of science from Harvard University and a ...

Joseph Mara holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and is a former undergraduate research assistant with Human Security Lab.

Grace Bernheart holds a Bachelor’s degree in History and Political Science from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and is a former undergraduate research assistant with the Human Security Lab.