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President Vladimir Putin talks with the governor of Kursk on the situation regarding the Ukrainian invasion of the south of the oblast. Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The new red line: Why a prolonged conflict in Ukraine makes a nuclear attack more likely

By Phillips P. O’Brien | Analysis, Nuclear Risk

The United States Department of Commerce

Are new US export controls rules on chips and other critical tech good enough?

By Ian J. Stewart | Analysis

The N.S. Savannah was the world's first nuclear powered merchant ship. It launched in 1959 as part of the Atoms for Peace program. Photo: Department of Transportation Maritime Administration

Why nuclear-powered commercial ships are a bad idea

By George M. Moore | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

The US presidential candidates are not confronting the nuclear threat that haunts the world

By Robert Jay Lifton | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

A game plan for dealing with the costly Sentinel missile and future nuclear challenges

By Stephen J. Cimbala, Lawrence J. Korb | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

What do Americans really think about the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

By Scott D. Sagan, Gina Sinclair | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

The Preparatory Committee for the 2026 NPT Review Conference will hold its second session from July 22 to August 2 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.

Interview: US diplomat Adam Scheinman on nonproliferation, arms control, and the NPT

By | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

map showing water-related conflicts over thousands of years

4,000 years of conflict over water: a timeline

By Morgan Shimabuku | Analysis, Climate Change

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is rushed offstage during a rally on July 13 in Butler, Penn. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

An attempted assassination and the conspiratorial disinformation that followed

By John Mecklin | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies

Why cost should not be an obstacle to compensating nuclear survivors

By Alicia Sanders-Zakre, Susi Snyder | Analysis, Nuclear Waste, Nuclear Weapons

A large screen on a street in Beijing shows a Chinese military plane participating in a three-day air and sea exercise around Taiwan that began on April 8, 2023.

How to manage and de-risk an emerging Cold War II with China

By Robert Daly, Robert Litwak | Analysis, Nuclear Risk

The US military tests a missile in the ocean.

The US nuclear arms control community needs a strategic plan

By Stewart Prager | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons