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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

The University of Chicago’s new climate initiative: brave research program or potentially dangerous foray into solar geoengineering?

By Jessica McKenzie | Analysis, Climate Change, Investigative Reporting

Flag of California with wireframe bear

California AI bill becomes a lightning rod—for safety advocates and developers alike

By Owen J. Daniels | Analysis

Russian and Iranian foreign ministers meet in Moscow

The West has a 15-month opportunity for a new nuclear deal with Iran that precludes an Iranian Bomb

By Seyed Hossein Mousavian | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Can minimum deterrence save nuclear arms control?

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

Artist's concept shows future ICBM blasting into sky

Another reason to cancel the Sentinel missile: the rising cost of its nuclear warhead

By Stephen Young | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons