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Then-US President Barack Obama and then-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev issue a joint statement announcing their pursuit of a New START treaty in London in April 2009. (White House photo by Pete Souza.)

The New START verification regime: How good is it?

By Rose Gottemoeller | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

World War II ad for penicillin

What the development of penicillin tells us about developing a coronavirus vaccine

By Dan Drollette Jr | Analysis, Biosecurity, Special Topics

coronavirus as seen through scanning electron microscope

The coronavirus pandemic: A people’s first draft of history

By Dan Drollette Jr | Analysis, Biosecurity, Special Topics

Gustavo Zlauvinen, president-designate of the 2020 NPT Review Conference.

COVID-19 has given the 2020 NPT Review Conference a reprieve. Let’s take advantage of it

By Robert Einhorn | Analysis, Nuclear Risk

The US military tests a missile in the ocean.

Pandemic spending will force US defense budget cuts—some of which should come from nuclear weapons programs

By Lawrence J. Korb | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

A satellite image of China's demonstration plutonium reprocessing plant.

Pinpointing China’s new plutonium reprocessing plant

By Hui Zhang | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Waste

How we know the Earth is warming and humans are responsible

By Dana Nuccitelli | Analysis, Climate Change

Hampton Roads. (Photo by Copernicus Sentinel-2, ESA.)

Sea level rise and beyond: Is the US military prepared for climate change?

By Joan VanDervort | Analysis, Climate Change

Coronavirus: Letting bad science slip through the cracks?

By Jackie Flynn Mogensen | Analysis, Biosecurity

US President Donald Trump with his first Secretary of Defense, James Mattis, in 2017

Poll: What the American public likes and hates about Trump’s nuclear policies

By Jonathon Baron, Stephen Herzog | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

Declaring victory too soon: Lessons from Europe’s different responses to coronavirus

By Eileen Choffnes | Analysis, Biosecurity

Fukushima accident town nearby

Another victim of the pandemic: trust in the government

By Allison Macfarlane | Analysis, Biosecurity, Nuclear Risk