We know that red mercury makes the manufacturing of nuclear bombs much, much easier. We don’t exactly know how it manages to do this, but that’s only because red mercury, as far as we know, doesn’t ...

Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from the “Global Fissile Material Report 2008: Scope and Verification of a Fissile Material (Cutoff) Treaty.” The complete report can be found here. The ...

It was a small step. But after almost a decade of deadlock, the United Nations Conference on Disarmament last week approved a working group to negotiate a treaty banning the production of fissionable ...