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Image of Arctic area taken aboard US aircraft en route to Europe 2014. Credit: Diana Marvin. Used with permission.

Reimagining the Open Skies Treaty: cooperative aerial monitoring

By Rose Gottemoeller, Diana Marvin | Analysis, Climate Change, Nuclear Risk, Opinion

Kargu drone test.

If a killer robot were used, would we know?

By Zachary Kallenborn | Analysis

windmill in mountains

Why Bill Gates and John Kerry are wrong about climate change

By John Carey | Analysis, Climate Change

A promotional video about autonomous weaponized drone.

Was a flying killer robot used in Libya? Quite possibly

By Zachary Kallenborn | Analysis

Four soldiers carrying rifles near helicopter under blue sky. Credit: Somchai Kongkamsri. Access via Pexels. Free to use.

‘Almost divine power’: the lawyers who sign off who lives and who dies in modern war zones

By Craig Jones | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Bees together. Honeybees (Apis melifera) on wild fennel. Credit: Jack Wolf. CC BY-ND 2.0.

A taste of radioactive honey: The long-lived legacies of nuclear testing

By Susan D’Agostino | Analysis, Climate Change, Nuclear Risk

Trump on One America News.

Uncanceled: Banned from Facebook, Trump reaches millions on TV

By Matt Field | Analysis

Is the US nuclear community prepared for the extreme weather climate change is bringing?

By Susan D’Agostino | Analysis, Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

A health care worker prepares a COVID-19 vaccine.

Why is the J&J vaccine paused, and what does a pause mean?

By | Analysis

money and hangman's rope

Green investing “definitely not going to work”—former BlackRock exec

By Dominic Rushe | Analysis, Climate Change

Nuclear submarine HMS Vanguard. Photo: CPOA(Phot) Tam McDonald/MOD accessed via Wikimedia Commons. Open Government License.

Why is the United Kingdom raising its nuclear stockpile limits?

By Matthew Harries | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Will electric vehicles soon approach the tipping point to acceptance?

By John Paul MacDuffie, Sarah E. Light | Analysis, Climate Change