Nuclear Weapons Archive

FLI Podcast: Is Nuclear Weapons Testing Back on the Horizon? With Jeffrey Lewis and Alex Bell
Nuclear weapons testing is mostly a thing of the past: The…


The Breakdown of the INF: Who’s to Blame for the Collapse of the Landmark Nuclear Treaty?
On February 1, a little more than 30 years after it went…

Trump to Pull US Out of Nuclear Treaty
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Podcast: AI and Nuclear Weapons – Trust, Accidents, and New Risks with Paul Scharre and Mike Horowitz
In 1983, Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov prevented…

$50,000 Award to Stanislav Petrov for helping avert WWIII – but US denies visa
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Podcast: Nuclear Dilemmas, From North Korea to Iran
With the U.S. pulling out of the Iran deal and canceling…

Podcast: What Are the Odds of Nuclear War? A Conversation With Seth Baum and Robert de Neufville
What are the odds of a nuclear war happening this century?…


Rewinding the Doomsday Clock
On Thursday, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists inched their iconic…

Podcast: Beneficial AI and Existential Hope in 2018
For most of us, 2017 has been a roller coaster, from increased…

ICAN Awarded Nobel Peace Prize on December 10, Here’s Why
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Three Tweets to Midnight: Nuclear Crisis Stability and the Information Ecosystem
The following policy memo was written and posted by the Stanley…

Scientists to Congress: The Iran Deal is a Keeper
The following article was written by Dr. Lisbeth Gronlund and…


ICAN Wins Nobel Peace Prize
We at FLI offer an excited congratulations to the International…

Podcast: Choosing a Career to Tackle the World’s Biggest Problems with Rob Wiblin and Brenton Mayer
If you want to improve the world as much as possible, what…

START from the Beginning: 25 Years of US-Russian Nuclear Weapons Reductions
By Eryn MacDonald and originally posted at the Union of Concerned…

Countries Sign UN Treaty to Outlaw Nuclear Weapons
Update 9/25/17: 53 countries have now signed and 3 have ratified.
Today,…

Stanislav Petrov, the Man Who Saved the World, Has Died
A Soviet early warning satellite showed that the United States…