The President of the 2026 NPT Review Conference addresses calls from China, the Non-Aligned Movement, legislators, and civil society for adopting no-first-use nuclear policies. The UN General Assembly President and various stakeholders are promoting NFU policies as a measure to reduce nuclear risks, with public support campaigns encouraging signatures and activism at nuclear-armed states' embassies.
A US Special Operations Command analyst used an AI chatbot to analyze intelligence about a Chinese ship, which hallucinated false information suggesting the vessel carried nuclear weapons components. The US military nearly intercepted and boarded the ship based on this erroneous AI-generated report before discovering the error, with officials warning the incident almost sparked military conflict.
Global Laser Enrichment announced in September 2025 that its SILEX laser-based uranium enrichment technology reached industrial scale, moving from concept toward commercial deployment. The technology promises to address growing uranium demand and reduce dependence on geopolitically sensitive suppliers, but poses significant nonproliferation challenges that require urgent policy adaptation of export controls and IAEA safeguards before widespread deployment undermines the global nonproliferation regime.
A curated collection of open-source software tools for nuclear science and engineering, including Monte Carlo transport codes, reactor simulators, nuclear data processing utilities, and multiphysics frameworks used for neutron/photon transport, fuel cycle analysis, and reactor design.