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

Climate contrarians questioned evidence of a human fingerprint on climate change in a report commissioned by the Energy ...

On October 11, 1986, US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev met in Reykjavik, where they confronted the threat of nuclear weapons and found common ground despite the Cold War.

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 ...

Far from being helpless against a veto, Congress holds significant legal and procedural power over the administration's ...

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, ...

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 ...