Ernest J. Moniz and Armond Cohen in the Boston Globe: “The world wants to triple nuclear energy: What will it take?”
To make good on their COP28 pledge, countries need a new approach to building, regulating, and financing nuclear technology.
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Ernest J. Moniz: “Boston Hospitals have devices that could be used to make dirty bombs. Why won’t they ditch them?”
Boston hospitals have an opportunity to receive tens of thousands of dollars of grants toward the purchase of new equipment that is just as effective for medical and research purposes as the radiological devices they have been using for decades.
Joan Rohlfing and James McKeon in USA Today: “Our nuclear weapons are much more powerful than Oppenheimer’s atomic bomb.”
Today, we have the capability to monitor and control nuclear weapons technologies that didn’t yet exist in Oppenheimer’s time.
Ernest J. Moniz in Foreign Policy: “A Nuclear South Korea is a Dangerous Miscalculation.”
At their upcoming summit, Biden needs to let Yoon know there would be consequences for breaking Seoul’s nonproliferation promises.
Joan Rohlfing on “The Myth of ‘Just’ Nuclear Deterrence.”
We owe the future a new nuclear security strategy that can prevent an existential global nuclear event.
Ernest J. Moniz and Sam Nunn on “Confronting the New Nuclear Peril”
NTI Board Co-Chair and CEO Ernest J. Moniz and NTI Board Co-Chair Sam Nunn have co-authored an article in Foreign Affairs about the need to find new avenues for preventing nuclear weapons use at an increasingly dangerous time.
Angela Kane and Jaime Yassif on Discerning “Where the Next Pandemic Will Come From”
In an op-ed for The Hill, NTI Senior Advisor Angela Kane and Vice President for Global Biological Policy and Programs Jaime Yassif acknowledge the importance of the ongoing investigation into the source of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Eric Brewer on “South Korea’s Nuclear Flirtations”
Eric Brewer, deputy vice president for NTI’s Nuclear Materials Security Program, co-authored a piece for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace titled “South Korea’s Nuclear Flirtations Highlight the Growing Risks of Allied Proliferation.”
Jaime Yassif on “The Need for Better Safeguarding of Bioscience”
In a new opinion piece for The Economist, Jaime Yassif makes the case for urgent action to create stronger guardrails for bioscience and biotechnology.
Eric Brewer on the War in Ukraine and Nonproliferation
Deputy Vice President for NTI’s Nuclear Materials Security Program Eric Brewer writes that “although Russia’s war [in Ukraine] has created nuclear risks, the risk that it will unleash a wave of nuclear proliferation is lower than many believe.”