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Question for the candidates: What is your plan to prevent the next dangerous and expensive nuclear arms race?
Laura Grego, a senior scientist and the research director of the Global Security Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists ...
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The new red line: Why a prolonged conflict in Ukraine makes a nuclear attack more likely
Assumptions on reaching the threshold of nuclear weapons were overwrought, but those assumptions have made a nuclear conflict ...
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Question for the candidates: What will you do to avoid a nuclear arms race with Russia and China?
Former US ambassador to Ukraine Steven Pifer suggests that the 2024 US presidential candidates be asked about their plan to ...
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Question for the candidates: Has Russia’s war in Ukraine changed your view of the role of nuclear weapons?
Former Los Alamos lab director Siegfried Hecker proposes a series of nine questions on great power competition, the global ...
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Question for the candidates: Should the president retain the sole authority to order the use of nuclear weapons?
Mackenzie Knight, a senior research associate at the Federation of American Scientists and co-author of the Bulletin’s ...
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Question for the candidates: Do you agree with other world leaders that the use of—or threat to use—nuclear weapons is “inadmissible”?
Daryl Kimball, director of the Arms Control Association, suggests four questions about the use of nuclear weapons, US-Russia ...
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Question for the candidates: What will you do if Iran gets the bomb?
Henry Sokolski, executive director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, proposes three nuclear questions about ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists12h
Question for the candidates: How many nuclear warheads does the United States need?
Tom Z. Collina, a national security expert and former director of policy at the Ploughshares Fund, proposes a single, central ...
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The experts comment: Key nuclear questions that the US presidential candidates should answer
Nuclear policy experts suggest questions that journalists and citizens should ask the 2024 presidential candidates.
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Nuclear Risk
Founded by scientists and engineers of the Manhattan Project in the wake of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has been alerting humanity to the ...