The intelligence world is closely watching a remote island near Taiwan where China is preparing to produce weapons-grade plutonium from Russian nuclear fuel.
As the world marks a year since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, UCS President Johanna Chao Kreilick lays out nuclear weapons policies that can make us safer.
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"This year, the war in Ukraine was front and center in our deliberations," a co-chair of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Science and Security Board said.
To get a better understanding of the likelihood of Putin reversing his latest position on using nuclear weapons in Ukraine and the fallout in every sense of the word if he did, I turned to Eryn MacDonald, an analyst with the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) Global Security Program