Ernest Moniz

Oct 16, 2024 | thenevadaindependent.com | Ernest Moniz

Many Nevadans remember the days when the United States was driven by necessity to conduct explosive nuclear tests of America’s nuclear arsenal. By testing, we sought to prove the designs of our nuclear weapons and impress on any potential adversary the futility of striking America or our allies. Today, we are long past the point when explosive nuclear testing is required to ensure their effectiveness, and our adversaries well understand their power.

Sep 11, 2024 | brookings.edu | Ernest Moniz |Samantha Gross

MONIZ: We are going to need power that’s available when we want it, when we need it, where we need it. Nuclear power is one of the prime options for supplying that. [music]GROSS: Oldsters like me have seen a lot of change in nuclear power in our lifetimes. Nuclear power was once touted as bringing us electricity “cheap to meter,” a phrase coined by the US Atomic Energy Commission’s chairman in 1954. But real-world costs dashed that hope.

Mar 7, 2024 | thebrunswicknews.com | Jerry Brown |Ernest Moniz

On Oscar night, millions will tune in to see whether the captivating story about the race to create the world's first nuclear weapon will take home an armload of Academy Awards. As we watch, we must remember this: No matter who lands a golden statuette on March 10, we will all wake up on March 11 just one terrible miscalculation, accident or deliberate act of madness away from civilization-ending nuclear destruction.

Aug 1, 2023 | issues.org | Ernest Moniz |Lisa Margonelli |Jay Lloyd

By Ernest J. Moniz, Lisa Margonelli Over the last 40 years, US and Chinese scientists at all levels have been engaged in broad-based diplomacy, publishing hundreds of thousands of scientific papers together. Recently, amid tensions between the two countries and official and unofficial government actions to curtail collaboration, joint publications have fallen.

Jul 20, 2023 | bostonglobe.com | Ernest Moniz

Boston Strong turned 10 this year. In April 2013, two improvised pressure-cooker bombs were detonated at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring more than 200. But imagine if those bombs — or a bomb set off in Back Bay or Beacon Hill, the South End, or the Seaport — had spewed radiation. Imagine if the blast required mass evacuations and a cleanup that cost billions of dollars and was still going on 10 years later.