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

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

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

If Trump is interested in resolving this crisis, diplomacy remains the best method for preventing a nuclear breakout in Iran and beyond.

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.

Peder Anker is a professor of history of science at the 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 ...

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