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When the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, it unleashed one of the most devastating events in history, which still has implications today.
The state capture inquiry will look at why former president Jacob Zuma pursued a dodgy nuclear deal.
The benefits of nuclear power often seem to get overshadowed. It's time the industry began sharing its vision for the future.
Commercial nuclear reactors provide roughly one-fifth of the electricity produced in the US. But they face grave threats to their continued operation.
The Environmental Justice Atlas highlights the most pertinent findings of environmental conflicts facing the world today.
The South Korean president's careful approach to rapprochement with the North set the stage for a possible breakthrough on the Korean peninsula.
Trump's announcement confirms he is no longer listening to moderate voices in his administration when it comes to dealings with Tehran
South Africa's obsession with nuclear energy under the leadership of President Zuma, is dangerous.
In 1985 The Junkyard Band shifted the paradigm by challenging Reaganomics. Many of those same key issues still rage on today, across the world.
For South Africa decommissioning its nuclear plant Koeberg is a reality that cannot be ignored much longer.
China is reluctant to be more active in dealing with Pyongyang for fear of consolidating the US take over in the region.
South Africa's President Jacob Zuma seems to be making a final push to secure the nuclear power deal before his tenure comes to an end. But it won't be easy.
South African President Jacob Zuma's efforts to promote his unpopular nuclear project are weakening him politically but he still seems keen to pursue it.
Canada is a world leader in the field of neutron scattering, winning a Nobel Prize in 1994 for its invention. But the looming shutdown of facilities at Chalk River puts us on the sidelines.
Education should be for everyone not only those in formal education institutions. Popular education programmes presents an opportunity for people to learn how to contribute to a sustainable future.
Nuclear industry players tout small modular reactors as an "inherently safe," cost-effective source of electricity. The reality may be less attractive.
Treaties banning biological and chemical weapons are in place, and the path is clear to remove nuclear weapons too. Lethal autonomous weapons (killer robots) should be next.
The Cape High Court ruling which declared South Africa's nuclear energy plan as illegal may have put paid President Jacob Zuma's ambitions of clinching the deal while he is still in office.
The treaty to stop the proliferation of nuclear weapons has been exceptionally successful. Only nine states have them. Now, efforts are underway to completely rid the world of them.
Top contributors
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Professor of Physics, University of Johannesburg
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Strategy and Policy Group Lead and Professor of Energy Policy, Department of Management, Robert Gordon University
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Head of Department of Management and Professor of Petroleum Accounting at Aberdeen Business School, Robert Gordon University
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Professor of Energy Engineering, University of Glasgow
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Henry J. Leir Professor of Practice in Economics of the Middle East, Brandeis University
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Honorary Research Associate, University of Cape Town
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Professor of AI at UNSW, Research Group Leader, Data61
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Associate Professor, International Education and Learning Unit, Nossal Institute for Global Health, School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne
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Mark Diesendorf is a Friend of The Conversation.
Honorary Associate Professor, UNSW
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Doctoral student, University of Adelaide
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Lecturer in International Relations, Department of Politics and Philosophy, La Trobe University
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Professor in Human Security and International Diplomacy, RMIT University
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Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security at the Liu Institute for Global Issues, University of British Columbia
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Professor of Nuclear Physics, Director of Birmingham Centre of Nuclear Education and Research, University of Birmingham
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Professor in Contemporary European History, University of Stirling
