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Takato Michishita, at six, remembers his mother's unease the morning the atomic bomb hit Nagasaki, prompting her to keep his sister home. While shopping, a sudden flash turned everything white. They later learned the bomb exploded near his sister’s school and everyone there was…

Tomiko Morimoto West was 13 years old when her city of Hiroshima was bombed, killing her mother and other relatives. She remembers how most of the students she was with were killed, and of the students who survived, many had parents who were killed. No one was unaffected by the…

Nothing more punk rock than the rockstar to bioweapons expert career trajectory... nti.org/risky-business…

To mark 80 years since the Trinity Test, the Kronos Quartet, along with Willie Nelson, Ringo Starr, and Allison Russell, recorded two new versions of Bob Dylan’s “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall.” Written after the Cuban Missile Crisis, the song highlights nuclear threats and the need…

Great to see the UN Scientific Panel on Nuclear War Effects is officially established and has appointed 21 members! The diversity of backgrounds reflects this critical opportunity to reexamine the full range of effects in today’s interconnected world: press.un.org/en/2025/dc3900…

“We take our food and agriculture system for granted. It is constantly under attack and we are not funding it’s security.” - David Stiefel, MA Director, Global Biological Policy and Programs, @NTI_WMD

Today, NTI's David Stiefel will be speaking on a Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense panel on Biodefense in Crisis: Danger and Opportunity. He will join top experts on biological threats to address critical priorities in biodefense. Learn more: biodefensecommission.org/events/biodefe…

Major progress in AIxBio greatly increases the risk of deliberate or accidental release of harmful bioagents. This demands urgent attention, serious caution & decisive action. Read the statement I've signed with many other AI & life science researchers: nti.org/news/internati…

More than 35 leading experts highlight the risks posed by rapidly advancing capabilities at the convergence of AI and the life sciences and call on governments, model developers, and funders to take action to safeguard this technology. nti.org/news/internati…

Rory McIlroy...call us. We want to hear your Oppenheimer takes.

Emiko Okada watched her childhood vanish in the flash when her city of Hiroshima was bombed, killing her older sister. Reflecting on this tragedy, she said, "The war was caused by the selfish misdeeds of adults. Many children fell victim because of it. Alas, this is still the…

Sachiko Matsuo was 11 years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. Her father evacuated the family to a nearby mountain, which is why she survived. However, her older brother was killed in the blast and her father died weeks later from radiation exposure. No one should…

"I asked chatgpt" "I asked grok" well I asked Jared Harris from the critically acclaimed HBO series Chernobyl and he said this is how an RBMK reactor core explodes.

Today is Nelson Mandela's birthday. An advocate for peace and justice worldwide, Mandela was also an advocate for nuclear disarmament. In 1998, he addressed the UN General Assembly, calling for a world free from nuclear weapons. Let's continue working towards Mandela's vision…

"A negotiated solution is really the only way to have a permanent or long-term fix to the problem of Iranian nuclear weapons threshold status. It's going to require diplomacy. That was the conclusion prior to the military strikes, and it's the same conclusion after the military…

Sadako Sasaki was two when she experienced the bombing of Hiroshima. When she was diagnosed with radiation-induced leukemia at the age of 11, she attempted to fold 1,000 paper cranes in the hopes that her wish to live would be granted. Tragically, Sadako did not survive, but her…