Striving for a safer world since 1945.

“These weapons are being cleaned and shined as arsenals expand and the risk of nuclear weapons use grows to be higher than at any time since the Cold War.”

At the Federation of American Scientists, we know firsthand that progress happens when the science community has a seat at the policymaking table.

The Dutch air base at Volkel appears to have started integration training with the new U.S. B61-12 guided nuclear gravity bomb in 2021, even before the bomb went into full-scale production and entered the U.S. stockpile in 2022.

Five federal policy recommendations to maximize opportunity and minimize risk at the intersection of biology and artificial intelligence