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When a Nordic dispute over the strategically important Åland Islands arose in the early 20th century, Finland and Sweden turned to international mediation to resolve the issue peacefully. Photo permission and credit by Douglas P. Fry.

Peaceful societies are not utopian fantasy. They exist.

By Douglas P. Fry, Geneviève Souillac | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

Plutonium pellet. US Energy Department public domain image via Wikimedia Commons.

For the NPT to work, plutonium has to go

By Victor Gilinsky, Henry Sokolski | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Opinion

repurposed nuclear slogan outside Fukushima

Fukushima today: “I’m glad that I realized my mistake before I died.”

By Thomas A. Bass | Analysis, Personal Essay

Waste Isolation Pilot Plant receives 12,500th shipment of transuranic waste

Can the Energy Department store 50 tons of weapons-grade plutonium for 10,000 years?

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

screen grab of Fox News and Friends

Most of Texas’ energy comes from oil and gas. So why blame wind and solar for its power failures?

By Oliver Milman | Analysis, Climate Change

A COVID-19 test.

Think a year of COVID-19 has been tough? Try decades (or longer)

By Matt Field | Analysis, Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies

TPNW book of signatures

The real value of the nuclear ban treaty

By Carl Robichaud, Karim Kamel | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

Perdix drone demonstration.

Drone swarms: coming (sometime) to a war near you. Just not today.

By Maaike Verbruggen | Analysis

Politics, race, and religion: Pandemic misinformation courses through the Southeast Asian internet

By Jan Oledan, Nicola Bariletto, Saiful Salihudin, Mehulika Sitepu, Jacob N. Shapiro | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies

A clean return to the Iran nuclear deal should be Biden’s first option

By Eric Brewer | Analysis, Nuclear Risk

An expert proposal: How to limit presidential authority to order the use of nuclear weapons

By Lisbeth Gronlund, David Wright, Steve Fetter | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

Trump supporters swarm the US Capitol.

Amid a transfer of power, Trump supporters break into Capitol

By Matt Field | Analysis