Nuclear Policy and Security Archives

“On the Morning You Wake – Again”: ballistic and nuclear threat reality

by Kristina Zeleniuk | Oct 1, 2024 | Journalism, Nuclear Policy and Security, Nuclear Threats and Security, Politics, WPI Activities

Jan. 13, 2018. 8.08 a.m. That morning, 1.4 million citizens of Hawaii received an emergency alert on their cell phones. It read: "BALLISTIC MISSILE...

DOOMSDAY CLOCK: A Cinematic Ticking Device or a Cautionary Watchdog?

by Nelly Kalu | May 17, 2022 | Nuclear Policy and Security, Nuclear Threats and Security

If the essence of the doomsday clock is to provoke conversation, we must have these conversations, before it is too late and novelty becomes a disaster.
What then is midnight, it is the end of humanity as we know it. Period.

Policing of Nuclear Weapons Proliferation is Failing Without The U.S and Russia

by Nelly Kalu | May 17, 2022 | Nuclear Policy and Security, Nuclear Threats and Security

Bulletin of The Atomic Scientists, a 75-year-old magazine created by scientists directly involved in the Manhattan Project, a U.S research project in 1942-45 that produced the first atomic bombs. These scientists decided, after being overruled on their suggestion to not use these bombs on a civilian population, that there was value in an organization that informed the public on the state of modern science and what was needed to reduce man-made threats to our existence.