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

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.

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 ...

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 M.A. and B.A. in philosophy from the University of Oslo.

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

University of Massachusetts-Amherst and a research assistant with the Human Security Lab.

The US government is rushing nuclear reactor deployment on federal sites to fuel its global AI race. But it may come at ...

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

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

The Nobel Laureate Assembly convenes the world’s foremost experts on nuclear weapons at a critical moment in global security, and is designed to produce actionable, pragmatic recommendations. The ...

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

Leslie R. Schover is a retired clinical psychologist who served on the faculties of The Cleveland Clinic Foundation and the University of Texas, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. Schover graduated in ...