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Chairman of nuclear weapons oversight agency steps down amid internal turmoil
Reading Time: 4 minutes Sean Sullivan resigned from his post as chairman of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board. (Wikimedia Commons) The chairman of a federal oversight agency responsible for...
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Key sites proposed for nuclear bomb production are plagued by safety problems
Reading Time: 6 minutes The Department of Energy is scheduled to decide within days where plutonium parts for the next generation of nuclear weapons are to be made, but recent internal government...
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Plutonium is missing, but the government says nothing
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View ArticleThe Trump administration reins in a nuclear weapons safety watchdog
Reading Time: 7 minutes August 30: This story has been updated. A small government safety organization tasked with protecting the workers who construct America’s nuclear arsenal and with preventing...
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Nuclear security threats on the rise under Trump, policy group says
Reading Time: 4 minutes The risk of nuclear sabotage or theft of America’s nuclear weapons material is rising due to declining political stability and increased partisan rancor under the Trump...
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Trump’s call for creating an impenetrable missile shield sparks immediate debate
Reading Time: 5 minutes President Donald Trump on Jan. 17 unveiled an expansive new military doctrine that calls for the country to be able to block all enemy missiles, a challenge that many experts...
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Overwhelming majority believe U.S. should remain in controversial arms accord
Reading Time: 4 minutes American voters overwhelmingly reject the prospect of withdrawing from a 32-year-old arms-control accord with Russia that forbids either nation from fielding intermediate-range...
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Radiation is good for you? The fringe viewpoint gains ground in the Trump...
Reading Time: 10 minutes Since World War II, virtually every American business where radiation is present – hospital emergency rooms and cancer wards, uranium mines, nuclear power plants, and others –...
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Survey: Most Americans want to curb the president’s power to launch nuclear...
Reading Time: 7 minutes With rising tensions between the United States and other nations, the public overwhelmingly wants to curtail the president’s power to unilaterally order the first use of nuclear...
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The U.S. raises red flags on Russia’s plutonium experiments — while ramping...
Reading Time: 7 minutes In a maze of tunnels 900 feet beneath the Nevada desert, U.S. nuclear weapons scientists have since the 1990s been intermittently agitating flecks of plutonium with chemical...
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