My colleague Laura Grego has an excellent LTE on the @nytimes.com website today, making the case for why the over-budget, unneeded and dangerous Sentinel ICBM program should be cancelled. You can see it here: www.nytimes.com/2024/09/13/o... [Scroll down a bit!]

Li Bin, professor of Intl Relations at Tsinghua Univ in China, is doing a presentation on negotiating a No First Use treaty. Here is the paper he is basing his presentation on: thebulletin.org/2024/06/why-...

My colleague Jennifer Knox lays out the distressing facts about the unnecessary, expensive & dangerous US program to build new silo-based long-range missiles. Known as Sentinel, the new missile will cost more than $140 billion while increasing the risk of nuclear war: blog.ucsusa.org/jknox/the-pr...

I folded a paper crane to honor the anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Sadako Sasaki, and all the children impacted by conflicts they didn’t create. Every child deserves to live free of the threat of nuclear weapons. #CranesForOurFuture

While recent events may seem dismal, my colleague Gregory Kulacki, East Asia Project Manager at the @ucsusa.bsky.social, ends on a hopeful note about the long-term future of #nuclear arms control negations between the United States and China. blog.ucsusa.org/gregory-kula...

Today @ucsusa.bsky.social released a letter from 700+ scientists to Biden & Congress, calling on them to cancel the proposed new long-range, land-based, nuclear-armed missile known as Sentinel, and to scrap such missiles permanently. Here is the letter: ucs-documents.s3.amazonaws.com/global-secur...

Today @bulletinatomic.bsky.social published my piece on the rising cost of the massive effort by NNSA to produce new plutonium pits, the fissile core of nuclear weapons. Those new pits are for new warheads for the vastly over-budget Sentinel missile. thebulletin.org/2024/05/anot...

I'm so grateful that young folks like Rishi Gurudevan are speaking out about the importance of younger generations to the nuclear disarmament movement. I agree that, "Only through intergenerational collaboration will humanity be spared." thebulletin.org/2024/04/gen-...

It is infuriating and unjust that some in St. Louis have cancer and other illnesses because of uranium processing. We need Speaker Mike Johnson to strengthen and reauthorize the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to the floor for a vote immediately. www.nytimes.com/2024/04/06/u...

I'm excited to listen live now as @npr.org 1A discusses the rising threat of nuclear war. Unfortunately, nuclear weapons risks are rising. Fortunately, there are activists, scientists, and other experts who continue to fight tirelessly against the threats and harms of nuclear weapons. www.npr.org

"As experts and lawmakers continue to debate US national security strategy..., they must not forget the hidden legacy of [nuclear] weapons. The US must acknowledge and address the full impact of its military activities, including righting its historical wrongs." thebulletin.org/2024/03/sena...

"With hope, the celebrity of Nolan’s #Oppenheimer will shine a brighter light on how US decisions about these horrible [nuclear] weapons are made." blog.ucsusa.org/gregory-kula...

I'm proud to be one of those peacemakers working to #MakeNukesHistory. #Oppenheimer started the nuclear weapons era, but together, we can end it - and stop history from repeating itself: blog.ucsusa.org/jknox/three-...

I am so grateful I was able to watch the Senate pass the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act yesterday. We are one step closer to the justice for more communities who were poisoned by their own government's nuclear weapons complex. Next step - pass RECA in the House! www.ucsusa.org/about/news/s...

BREAKING! RECA Senate passage assured! With 60 votes already (more to come), the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act will pass the body. Biden will sign if he gets the chance. The House needs to act to give benefits to those adversely impacted by US nuclear weapons testing, development & production.

"Of the publicly available locations of defense nuclear sites from the Department of Energy, five are located within five miles of an area burned by wildfire since the year 1900. Sources: Department of Energy, NIFC, and WFIGS"

- The US is again preparing a nuclear arms race where everyone will lose - US defense spending is at a record high, and there is no will in Congress to prevent waste and corruption - Scientists are organizing to fight for a better world #Oppenheimer blog.ucsusa.org/jknox/three-...

“We are in the Anthropocene, irrespective of a line on the time scale,” Dr. McCarthy said. “And behaving accordingly is our only path forward.” (1/2)

BREAKING: Gen. Cotton, head of US Strategic Command, testifies to Congress that he supports the US considering uploading more nuclear warheads on its land-based missiles. This would increase the number of US nuclear weapons deployed, something not allowed under the New START agreement with Russia.

The facility housing much of the US weapons-grade plutonium, Pantex, is surrounded by wildfire and temporarily shut down. Wildfires have similarly threatened Los Alamos in the recent past. Let's hope fire never meets nuclear material. The nuclear complex can't take climate change for granted.

Why does the United States still have intercontinental ballistic missiles? Why would we be better off without them? Learn more: blog.ucsusa.org/elliott-negi...

@gkucs.bsky.social took a detailed look at the Chinese sources identified in a recent article by @nytimes.com, suggesting there could be a "major shift in China's nuclear power and doctrine." Here's what he found⤵️

The B61-13 is one more tragic sign that the US is "all-in" on keeping the threat to kill tens to hundreds of millions of people in less than an hour as the centerpiece of US security policy.

Did you know that for 18 years @UCSUSA has kept a database of the numbers of satellites in orbit, plus who built/launched/owned them, and their masses, lifetimes, locations, and purposes? And as of the latest update, there are 7,560!! operating satellites. blog.ucsusa.org/lgrego/our-s...

"We know there will be a temptation for lawmakers to yet again kick the can down the road..., once again leaving behind too many people. That’s simply not an option this year. Too many people are sick and need help, too many people have already died." - Lilly Adams blog.ucsusa.org/lilly-adams/...

As the #Oscars buzz continues, we urge the cast and crew of #Oppenheimer to help us achieve justice for the communities who were sickened by radiation from nuclear weapons testing, waste, and uranium mining. blog.ucsusa.org/tara-drozden...

A plea to the cast & crew of Oppenheimer to remember--and remind others--about the human cost of nuclear weapons. Millions have been & still are being adversely affected by nuclear weapons testing, development, & production. They deserve help. @tdrozdenko.bsky.social blog.ucsusa.org/tara-drozden...

“The first step toward lowering tensions and reducing the risk of war is to build a new East Asian diplomacy that takes all stakeholders’ concerns into account, a diplomacy that reflects the concerns of the people who live in East Asia” Robert Rust @ucsusa.bsky.social blog.ucsusa.org/robert-rust/...

⏰ Congress, it is time to act! We need support for Amendment 1058 in the NDAA to ensure fairness and assistance for those affected by radiation exposure by strengthening and expanding #RECA before it expires www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtsM...

I just listened to members of the new Strategic Posture Commission trying to explain the report to an audience in San Francisco. Some comments that stood out the most: 1/n

The National Nuclear Security Administration's Fiscal Year 2024 Stockpile Stewardship and Management (NNSA's FY24 SSMP) is out! It is one of my "favorite" #nuclear documents because it actually has future projections for NNSA plans/budgets. Very useful! It's here: www.energy.gov/sites/defaul...

We're hiring at @UCSUSA! Come join our Outreach team working to end our reliance on nuclear weapons as an essential element of our security policy, repair the injustice and harms done by nuclear weapons, and move toward a world free from nuclear weapons. apply.workable.com/union-of-con...

Please check out my most recent musings on the intersection of geologic time, nuclear weapons, and the possibility that we are in a new geologic age called the Anthropocene - an unlikely intersection of my academic past and professional present. Please share if you find it interesting!

WPost editorializes on space junk, with a sky full of gorgeous graphics, using the @ucsusa.bsky.social Satellite Database as a source. wapo.st/49gzRF5

The House is voting on amendments to the FY24 Energy & Water Development appropriations act, the bill that funds the research & development of nuclear weapons. Rep. Garamendi has offered sensible amendments to limit the production of new plutonium pits that would be used to make new nuclear weapons.

Hello world! I'm excited to try out BlueSky as a new platform to share action opportunities and commentary on how to stop the nuclear arms race and abolish nuclear weapons. And I'll share some photos of my pet rabbits, Bernie & Buzz, along the way too!