Time

Oppenheimer's Lessons for Nuclear Threats Today

(Original Caption) Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), American physicist, Director of the Manhattan project. Undated photograph, standing before blackboard, holding pipe. (Original Caption) Robert ...
The Diplomat

Fukushima and the ‘Lessons Learned’ From Nuclear Disasters

March 11, 2026, marks 15 years since the Fukushima nuclear disaster happened in Japan. This major nuclear accident initially shook the international community of nuclear experts to its core. As ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Lessons from Zaporizhzhia: How to protect reactors against ‘nuclear piracy’

More than a year has passed since the world was shaken by the Russian occupation of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine. But despite the passage of time, a chilling reality remains: Russia ...
Jurist

Lessons from Oppenheimer: The Imperative of Nuclear Conflict Avoidance

“Where there were great military actions, there lies whitening now the jawbone of an ass.” Saint-John Perse (French poet, 1887-1975) As film, the core importance of “Oppenheimer” lies in its messages ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Lessons from the UN’s first resolution on AI in nuclear command and control

The United Nations rarely moves fast on disarmament. This year, though, it did something unusual. On November 6, the General Assembly’s First Committee, where states debate over questions of ...
The Conversation

The Iran war has lessons to teach us about nuclear weapons – but we risk learning the wrong ones

Nuclear “non-proliferation” – preventing the spread of nuclear weapons beyond states that already have them – has been held up as the rationale for the US-Israeli war on Iran. In his statement ...