Three decades after the first cold war, we’ve unfortunately entered a new one. There are about 14,000 nuclear weapons, some hundreds of times more powerful than those that obliterated Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and they may be able to create a decade-long nuclear winter that could kill most people on Earth. Yet the superpowers are investing over a trillion dollars making their nuclear arsenals more lethal, which many experts believe increases the risk of nuclear proliferation, nuclear terrorism, and accidental nuclear war – which has almost occurred over a dozen times.
Nuclear Weapons

Experiment in Annihilation
To celebrate the 88th birthday of its author today, we're republishing…

Have Nuclear Weapons Kept the Peace?
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The Increasing Risk of Nuclear War
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Secretary William Perry Talks at Google: My Journey at the Nuclear Brink
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Former Secretary…

Dr. David Wright on North Korea’s Satellite
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X-risk News of the Week: AAAI, Beneficial AI Research, a $5M Contest, and Nuclear Risks
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X-risk News of the Week: Nuclear Winter and a Government Risk Report
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Nuclear Warmongering Is Back in Fashion
"We should not be surprised that the Air Force and Navy think…

The Nuclear Weapons Threat and the Political Campaigns
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The Wisdom Race Is Heating Up
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North Korea’s Nuclear Test
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2015: An Amazing Year in Review
Just four days before the end of the year, the Washington Post…

Santa, Mistakes, and Nuclear War
Written by: David Wright, physicist & co-director, Global…

FLI at Nuclear Disarmament Conference
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New report: “Leó Szilárd and the Danger of Nuclear Weapons”
From MIRI:
Today we release a new report by Katja Grace, “Leó…

The Risk of Nuclear War Between India and Pakistan
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Eric Schlosser on Nuclear Weapons
Today's Nuclear Dilemma
In a paper just released by the…

What You Should Really Be Scared of on Halloween
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From Physics Today: China’s no-first-use nuclear policy
"China’s entire nuclear weapons posture, and its relatively…

FHI: Putting Odds on Humanity’s Extinction
Putting Odds on Humanity’s Extinction
The Team Tasked With…