Just in: As a service to citizens and journalists, we asked leading nuclear policy experts to suggest questions that the presidential candidates should be asked about the nuclear threat and how best to reduce it. -1/ In @bulletinatomic.bsky.socialthebulletin.org/2024/09/key-...#nuclearweapons

The experts comment: Key nuclear questions that the US presidential candidates should answer

Nuclear policy experts suggest questions that journalists and citizens should ask the 2024 presidential candidates.

Daryl Kimball, director of the Arms Control Association, suggests four questions about the use of nuclear weapons, US-Russia arms control, and Iran. -/7 In @bulletinatomic.bsky.socialthebulletin.org/2024/09/do-y...#PresidentialElection2024#nuclearweapons

Question for the candidates: Do you agree with other world leaders that the use of—or threat to use—nuclear weapons is “inadmissible”?

Daryl Kimball, director of the Arms Control Association, suggests four questions about the use of nuclear weapons, US-Russia arms control, and Iran that journalists and citizens should ask the 2024 pr...

Mackenzie Knight, a senior research associate at the Federation of American Scientists, proposes seven questions on presidential launch authority, nuclear modernization, and arms control. -6/ In @bulletinatomic.bsky.socialthebulletin.org/2024/09/shou...#PresidentialElection2024

Question for the candidates: Should the president retain the sole authority to order the use of nuclear weapons?

Mackenzie Knight, a senior research associate at the Federation of American Scientists and co-author of the Bulletin’s Nuclear Notebook, proposes a series of seven questions on presidential launch aut...

Henry Sokolski, executive director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, proposes three nuclear questions about Iran, China, and reactors in war zones. -5/ In @bulletinatomic.bsky.socialthebulletin.org/2024/09/what...#PresidentialElection2024#nuclearweapons

Question for the candidates: What will you do if Iran gets the bomb?

Henry Sokolski, executive director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, proposes three nuclear questions about Iran, China, and reactors in war zones that journalists and citizens could pr...

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Question for the candidates: How many nuclear warheads does the United States need?

Tom Z. Collina, a national security expert and former director of policy at the Ploughshares Fund, proposes a single, central question about nuclear weapons that journalists and citizens should ask th...

Former US ambassador to Ukraine Steven Pifer suggests that the 2024 US presidential candidates be asked about their plan to avoid a nuclear arms race with Russia and China. -3/ In @bulletinatomic.bsky.socialthebulletin.org/2024/09/what...#PresidentialElection2024#nuclearweapons

Question for the candidates: What will you do to avoid a nuclear arms race with Russia and China?

Former US ambassador to Ukraine Steven Pifer suggests that the 2024 US presidential candidates be asked about their plan to avoid a nuclear arms race with Russia and China.

Former Los Alamos lab director Siegfried Hecker proposes a series of nine questions on great power competition, the global nuclear order, proliferation, and the role of nuclear energy. -2/ In @bulletinatomic.bsky.socialthebulletin.org/2024/09/has-...#PresidentialElection2024#nuclearweapons

Question for the candidates: Has Russia's war in Ukraine changed your view of the role of nuclear weapons?

Former Los Alamos lab director Siegfried Hecker proposes a series of nine questions on great power competition, the global nuclear order, proliferation, and the role of nuclear energy that journalists...

Just in: As a service to citizens and journalists, we asked leading nuclear policy experts to suggest questions that the presidential candidates should be asked about the nuclear threat and how best to reduce it. -1/ In @bulletinatomic.bsky.socialthebulletin.org/2024/09/key-...#nuclearweapons

The experts comment: Key nuclear questions that the US presidential candidates should answer

Nuclear policy experts suggest questions that journalists and citizens should ask the 2024 presidential candidates.

Nuclear power: future energy solution or potential war target? By Ray Hughes of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory In @bulletinatomic.bsky.socialthebulletin.org/2024/09/nucl...#nuclearpower#climatechange#RussiaUkraineWar#ZNPP#Zaporizhzhia#SMRs

Nuclear power: future energy solution or potential war target?

Many countries are exploring advanced nuclear reactors as a solution to the climate crisis. However, the proliferation of small reactors may heighten the risk of wartime attacks like those witnessed i...

Just in: Biden focused on strategic stability. His successor should embrace arms control By Stephen J. Cimbala and Lawrence J. Korb In @bulletinatomic.bsky.socialthebulletin.org/2024/09/bide...#nuclearweapons#BidenAdministration#PresidentialElection2024

Biden focused on strategic stability. His successor should embrace arms control

Despite Biden's attempts to stave off crises, global nuclear buildups mean the next president will face a rocky road to arms control.