Members of the Democratic Party are expressing doubt for the Department of Energy’s (DOE) alleged plan to give at least 20 metric tons of weapons-usable plutonium to the private sector for commercial energy use. Such a move would risk putting weapons in the wrong hands and harming the nation’s defense, Democratic Senator Ed Markey explained […]
Trump’s Golden Dome Projected to Cost Exponentially More Than the Manhattan Project
Donald Trump has many grand plans for America, one of the more ambitious of which is to create a giant invisible space shield that theoretically protects the country from rockets. In January, Trump announced, via executive order, the creation of a “Golden Dome,” designed to protect Americans from the “threat of attack by ballistic, hypersonic, […]
Trump Says U.S. Won’t Respond to Iran’s Retaliatory Strike in Qatar
“Iran has officially responded to our Obliteration of their Nuclear Facilities with a very weak response, which we expected, and have very effectively countered,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Monday afternoon. “There have been 14 missiles fired—13 were knocked down, and 1 was ‘set free,’ because it was headed in a nonthreatening direction. I am […]
Targeting Nuclear Scientists Used to Be Covert Ops. Israel Just Blew It Open
At least 14 nuclear scientists are believed to be among those killed in Israel’s Operation Rising Lion, launched on June 13, 2025, ostensibly to destroy or degrade Iran’s nuclear program and military capabilities. Deliberately targeting scientists in this way aims to disrupt Iran’s knowledge base and continuity in nuclear expertise. Among those assassinated were Mohammad […]
Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ Is Impossible—and It’ll Make Defense Companies a Ton of Money
The Pentagon is expected to deliver plans for a “Golden Dome” to Trump this week. In the crudest sense, the Golden Dome is a missile defense system that would shoot nukes, missiles, and drones that threaten the U.S. out of the sky. A scientific study published earlier this month detailed the scientific impossibility of the […]
Putin Dangles a Nuclear Arms Treaty While Accusing Ukraine of ‘Hysteria’
The last remaining nuclear arms control treaty between the U.S. and Russia will expire in February 2026. While answering questions in St. Petersburg, Russian President Vladimir Putin dangled the possibility of extending it. The cost of the nuclear arms control treaty was subtle but clear. Putin wants everyone to ignore Kyiv’s “hysteria” over not being […]
Trump Says He Wants to Get Rid of Nukes. He Spent His First Presidency Making That Impossible
Between Donald Trump’s words and his actions falls the nuclear shadow. Yesterday while speaking in the Oval Office, President Trump fantasized about cutting the U.S. military budget in half and stressed the need to get rid of nuclear weapons. “There’s no reason for us to be building brand new nuclear weapons, we already have so […]
Scientists Debunk Claim That Iran’s 2024 Earthquake Was a Nuclear Weapons Test
On October 5, 2024, Iran was struck by an earthquake. Just minutes later, rumors began to spread on social media that it hadn’t been a natural event, but a secret Iranian nuclear weapons test. Now, researchers led by Johns Hopkins University have debunked these claims in a study published on February 3 in the journal […]
OpenAI Is Getting Into the Nuclear Weapons Game
Los Alamos National Laboratory and OpenAI announced a new partnership this morning that will be “focused on reducing the risk of nuclear war and securing nuclear materials and weapons worldwide.” Sam Altman of OpenAI announced the partnership during a company event this morning and Los Alamos confirmed it with a press release on its website. […]