Israel and United States' strikes on Iran could leave lasting health, environmental, and climate damage to the country.

Three former chairs of the US nuclear regulator explain how Trump's executive orders could have unintended safety ...

Eliminating the potential for Iran to hide behind a temporary truce or interim agreement—only to then surprise the world with ...

Stephen G. Burns served as chairman of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission from 2015 to 2017.

The so-called "big, beautiful bill" will lead to millions of fewer people having health coverage in the United States. It will make the country less prepared to detect and respond to a future pandemic ...

Biosafety level (BSL)-3 facilities exist in a diffuse regulatory environment, where requirements depend on factors such as the kinds of pathogens under study, the type of research being conducted, and ...

The House just voted to pass the One Big Beautiful Bill without a moratorium that would ban states from enforcing AI regulations for 10 years.

A Bulletin short fiction contest Announcing the Bulletin‘s new short fiction contest… Over the decades, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has published the smartest minds in the fields it covers, ...

Bahar Gholipour is a freelance science writer and editor in New York covering biomedical sciences, genetics, neuroscience, and AI. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, Science, The Washington Post, ...

Richard A. Meserve is a lawyer and physicist. He served as chairman of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission from 1999 to 2003 and as president of the Carnegie Institution for Science from 2003 to 2014 ...

Natalie Treloar is a non-resident fellow at the Indo-Pacific Studies Center (IPSC), a senior analyst at the National Institute for Deterrence Studies (NIDS), and the Australian Company Director of ...