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Israel to perform at Eurovision. Expect protests, machine guns, and drones

By Erik English | Analysis

Illia Ponomarenko, former defense reporter for the Kyiv Independent.

Ukrainian journalist Illia Ponomarenko on the horror and absurdity of Russia’s senseless, existential war

By Susan D’Agostino | Analysis, Book Review, Nuclear Risk

An illustration of three nuclear missiles exploding from a smartphone screen and labeled as facts, context, and engagement

How nongovernmental entities are tailoring their outreach to address nuclear escalation

By Clara Sherwood, Jamie Withorne | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Voices of Tomorrow

US Army soldiers walking in Syria

Listen up, UN: Soldiers aren’t fans of killer robots

By Catherine Sarkis | Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Voices of Tomorrow

Nukes, political violence, and environmental exploitation: The enduring relevance of Dune

By Erik English | Analysis, Nuclear Risk

Russian President Vladimir Putin. Credit: TASS News Agency. Accessed via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 4.0.

Putin’s nuclear warnings: heightened risk or revolving door?

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

A scene from the film 'The Day After' (1983) about the effects of a devastating nuclear holocaust on small-town residents of eastern Kansas. (Credit: American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.)

Making the threat of nuclear war personal: An exercise

By Herbert Lin | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

A US F-35A combat aircraft tests an unarmed B61-12 bomb in the Nevada Desert. Source: Sandia National Laboratory

Why the Biden administration’s new nuclear gravity bomb is tragic

By Stephen Young | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

an illustration showing escalation as an explosion and de-escalation as a hand preventing a bomb from exploding

Escalating to de-escalate with nuclear weapons: Research shows it’s a particularly bad idea

By Daniel R. Post | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons, Voices of Tomorrow

signs: pay up for loss and damage; show us the money; our countries are not your factories

COP28 creates fund for vulnerable countries for loss and damage from climate change—but will it reach vulnerable people?

By Zoha Shawoo, Inès Bakhtaoui, Ayesha Dinshaw | Analysis, Climate Change

Will AI make us crazy?

By Dawn Stover | Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

Montana youth climate trial plaintiffs

Montana climate case delivers win for youth, science, and the environment

By Peter Gleick | Analysis, Climate Change, Opinion