Nuclear Energy

In virtually every country that has closed nuclear plants, clean electricity has been replaced with dirty power.

Blame will go to the departing president while praise will go to his handpicked successor.

Kyiv’s big bet on digital money could backfire and make the country’s corruption problems worse.

The disaster isn’t just an easy metaphor for authoritarian failures.

Reducing Iran’s breakout time and restoring robust monitoring are the most urgent priorities. A return to the JCPOA can achieve these goals.

The Biden administration rebuffed European pleas to lift some sanctions in its first weeks in office.

There is a risk of a nuclear cascade across the region. The United States can stop it by enforcing the gold standard of nonproliferation.

Today’s ally can become tomorrow’s enemy, as Israel’s history of friendship with pre-revolutionary Iran and pre-Erdogan Turkey illustrates.

Competition among China, Russia, and the West is taking the form of a battle to build reactors in Eastern Europe.

In the East Asian democracies, nuclear energy is tied to an increasingly unpopular political and economic model.

Pyongyang thrives on provocation. Washington has to learn to counter it.

Thirty-three years after the Chernobyl meltdown, parts of the contaminated zone have become attractions. In others, a harsher reality persists.

The United States and South Korea must help Pyongyang convert its military nuclear complex for civilian use.

The region is at risk of a nuclear arms race. Washington needs to stop proliferation before it starts.

To prevent proliferation, any U.S.-Saudi nuclear deal needs to be tough.

It’s a law of nature: rising states and established powers come to blows. But can the Trump administration avoid a clash of nuclear superpowers?