The United States is preparing to mine a rare nuclear resource from some of its most dangerous Cold War legacies, turning aging plutonium waste into fuel for reactors and power for spacecraft. The ...
IN THE DEPTHS of the cold war, American spooks and generals came to suspect that the nuclear-weapons club was about to gain an incongruous new member. That state was Sweden, a neutral power that sat ...
Ankit Panda is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC, USA, and author of The New Nuclear Age (Polity, 2025). At a time of growing catastrophic risks posed ...