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People walking in Shiraz, Iran

Coronavirus in the Middle East: A rare opportunity for diplomacy?

By Chen Zak Kane, Rhianna Tyson Kreger | Analysis, Biosecurity

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.)

Prevent the outbreak of another global security threat. Extend New START.

By Daryl G. Kimball | Analysis, Biosecurity, Nuclear Weapons

truck driving through high water in Florida storm

Is FEMA footing the bill for others’ repeated climate-change mistakes?

By Alice C. Hill | Analysis, Climate Change

Another victim of coronavirus: Science

By Kate Yoder | Analysis, Climate Change, Special Topics

Bioterrorism exercises

How to keep the new coronavirus from being used as a terrorist weapon

By Richard Pilch | Analysis, Biosecurity

coal miner silhouettes lit by headlamps

With financial squeeze tightening, coal is collapsing faster than some predicted

By Fred Pearce | Analysis, Climate Change

Edmonton, Alberta skyline at dusk

Between COVID-19 and a price war, Canada’s oil patch is on life support

By Ainslie Cruickshank | Analysis, Climate Change

A drive-thru coronavirus testing site.

South Korea learned its successful Covid-19 strategy from a previous coronavirus outbreak: MERS

By HyunJung Kim | Analysis, Technology and Security

Inside a lab trying to develop a coronavirus vaccine

By Helen Santoro | Analysis, Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies

To vote or to wait: The epidemic and the elections

By Dan Drollette Jr | Analysis, Special Topics

For UAE, the political perks of nuclear power eclipse economics

By Jim Krane | Analysis, Nuclear Energy

India's INS Vela submarine

India is building nuclear submarines and ICBMs. That’s a $14 billion mistake.

By Frank O’Donnell, Alexander K. Bollfrass | Analysis, Nuclear Risk