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Government previously denied evidence countries with nuclear weapons favour atomic power over renewables

Confidential Chinese report seen by the Guardian intensifies concerns about possible weapons programme

Labour defence spokesman who helped to move the party away from a policy of unilateral nuclear disarmament in the 80sMartin O’Neill, latterly Lord O’Neill of Clackmannan, was an able Labour politician who as shadow defence...

Rosatom says five staff died in accident that caused radiation levels to spike in Arkhangelsk

It is essential that Europe does not become the arena for a build-up of nuclear weapons, writes Catherine West MP. It is surely time to bury the Micawber principle, says Professor Neil HyattAs we mark the 74th anniversary...

Energy department says labeling some waste as low-level at sites in Washington state, Idaho and South Carolina will save $40bn

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Science and Security Board has announced that the iconic Doomsday Clock is remaining at two minutes to midnight because of the dangers of climate change and the lack of progress on...

Climate breakdown is an imminent threat to humanity. But an international treaty could avert calamityHow did government respond to the recent scientific conclusion that only “rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes...

The tide towards annihilation can be turned if the political will is there, writes CND general secretary Kate HudsonAs your article on nuclear weapons states (All you wanted to know about nuclear war but were too afraid to...

With a shake of the hand, the US president has tightened Kim Jong-un’s grip over an enslaved nation – and got almost nothing in return

Move piles pressure on European states scrambling to salvage nuclear deal

Compensation offered to encourage local communities to allow test boreholes is described as ‘completely inadequate’

Bruce Kent of CND and Linda Rogers respond to Owen Jones’ article on Jeremy Corbyn and the UK’s nuclear weapons. Plus letters from Mike Clancy of Prospect, Frank Jackson and David LowryCan Owen Jones (Corbyn has to lead...

As the nuclear option looks less and less sensible, it becomes harder to explain Whitehall’s enthusiasm. Might it be to do with the military?

Last December, as crews were demolishing the Hanford Nuclear Reservation site in Washington, work was halted after monitors alerted individuals that they had inhaled radioactive particles - and we now know that it could have...