Bethany Goldblum

The National Nuclear Security Administration awarded a $25 million grant to the UC Berkeley-led Nuclear Science and Security Consortium to advance the next generation of nuclear science and security for the next five years.

A discussion on nuclear dangers was cosponsored by the Nuclear Threat Initiative, UC Berkeley's Nuclear Policy Working Group, the Nuclear Science and Security Consortium and the UC Berkeley Department of Nuclear Engineering.

Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories, in partnership with UC Berkeley, have developed a new online game to study military escalation after receiving a $500,000 grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Brooks, whose decades-long career has included serving on the White House National Security Council and overseeing the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration, highlighted how the Trump administration’s NPR differs from that of the Obama administration, but emphasized the great degree of continuity across the two.

Engineers and philosophers gathered to discuss the meaning of ethics in the context of nuclear security at a panel Tuesday evening in Sutardja Dai Hall.