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Analysis

Steps back from the brink at the Strait of Hormuz

By Robert J. Goldston, Frank von Hippel | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

US-Iran: avoiding military confrontation

By Emily B. Landau | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

Restarting negotiations with Iran

By Lawrence J. Korb | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

Three steps toward resolving Iran’s nuclear crisis

By Seyed Hossein Mousavian | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

Never waste a good crisis

By Chuck Freilich | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

glass globe and water

Louisiana congressman bets the era of climate denial is over. Or does he?

By Dan Drollette Jr | Analysis, Climate Change, What We’re Reading

Top Republican message-maker Frank Luntz calls for climate action

By Kate Yoder | Analysis, Climate Change

globe and water

Green New Deal: More popular than free college tuition

By Zoya Teirstein | Analysis, Climate Change

eye of hurricane seen from space

Wettest 12 months in US history

By Paola Rosa-Aquino | Analysis, Climate Change

Rocket models are stuck in a bucket during a February protest action in Berlin against the imminent withdrawal of the INF disarmament agreement between Russia and the USA. Photo: Paul Zinken/dpa (Photo by Paul Zinken/picture alliance via Getty Images)

A path toward renewing arms control

By Lawrence J. Korb | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

melting sea ice

Human history, in ice. And it’s melting away.

By Miyo McGinn | Analysis, Climate Change

Trinity: “The most significant hazard of the entire Manhattan Project”

By Kathleen M. Tucker, Robert Alvarez | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons