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A picture of Putin.

Europe’s ‘darkest hour,’ war in a radioactive zone, and fleeing citizens: Putin invades Ukraine

By Matt Field | Analysis

Woman handling Russian bills

Russia invaded Ukraine, but imposing financial sanctions like SWIFT may not be the best path forward.

By Aaron Arnold | Analysis

office worker and tank Prague Spring 68

Ukraine 2022: Flashback to Crimea 1993? Prague Spring 1968?

By Dan Drollette Jr | Analysis, What We’re Reading

President Joe Biden announces sanctions after Russia moves troops to Ukraine.

Biden announces new sanctions, moves troops to Baltics. Will Putin order Russian troops further into Ukraine?

By Matt Field | Analysis

Natalia Koryagina, Russia. After teaching herself to cultivate organic vegetables in her kitchen garden, Natalia Koryagina, a local geography teacher, has won national recognition for her work promoting new agricultural techniques in kitchen gardens, and providing training to local women on the use of these techniques. Accessed via Flickr. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Sanctions may sting if Russia invades Ukraine, despite Moscow’s efforts at sanction-proofing

By Susan D’Agostino | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director-General, welcomes Dr. Ali Bagheri Kani, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and his delegation upon their arrival at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 2 December 2021. Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA. (CC BY 2.0)

Iran’s nuclear potential can be cut, but not eliminated

By Jon B. Wolfsthal | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launches during an operational test at 1:13 a.m. Pacific Time Oct. 2, 2019, at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. 191002-F-CG053-1002 (U.S. Air Force Photo by Staff Sgt. J.T. Armstrong)

US defense to its workforce: Nuclear war can be won

By Alan Kaptanoglu, Stewart Prager | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Ukrainian servicemen seen along the frontline outside of Svitlodarsk, Ukraine on January 30. (Photo by Stringer/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

How the demise of an arms control treaty foreshadowed Russia’s aggression against Ukraine

By Amy J. Nelson, Adam Twardowski | Analysis, Nuclear Risk

Unrest in Kazakhstan led to this protest in Aktobe on Janyary 4, 2022. By Esetok - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=114004254

Is a shadow presidency fueling the gas-prices fire in oil-rich Kazakhstan?

By Urvashi Sarkar | Analysis, Nuclear Risk

men standing on platform and looking at industrial equipment

Whether green, blue, or turquoise, hydrogen needs to be clean and cheap

By Eric McFarland | Analysis, Climate Change, Opinion

US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman and Russian deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov pose for pictures as they attend security talks on soaring tensions over Ukraine at the US permanent Mission, in Geneva, on January 10. "The conversation was difficult, it couldn't have been easy," Ryabkov was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency after meeting Sherman during a working dinner in Geneva. (Photo by DENIS BALIBOUSE/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Putin’s demand for security guarantees: Not new and not to be taken literally, but not to be ignored

By Andrey A. Baklitskiy | Analysis, Nuclear Risk

People walk past a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on January 11, after North Korea fired a "suspected ballistic missile" into the sea, South Korea's military said, less than a week after Pyongyang reported testing a hypersonic missile. (Photo by Anthony Wallace/AFP via Getty Images)

North Korea’s goals in 2022: internal stability and nuclear development

By Duyeon Kim | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons