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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

The guided-missile destroyer USS Chafee launches a Block V Tomahawk cruise missile, the weapon's newest variant, during a three day missile exercise. (U.S. Navy photo by Ensign Sean Ianno)

A new nuclear-armed, sea-launched cruise missile: Just say no

By Robert J. Goldston | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

A section of the April 1969 issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' magazine. This issue was published at the height of the Vietnam war and commented on nuclear activism, the impacts of nuclear tests, agricultural development in Africa, and how science is actually a form of art.

A view from the height of the Vietnam War: Scientists and youth in revolt

By Eugene Rabinowitch | Analysis

Heat dome five times more likely due to climate change, say researchers

By Oliver Milman | Analysis, Climate Change

Russian police stand at a checkpoint on Saturday in Moscow, Russia. The Wagner Group, an independent army led by former Putin ally Yevgeny Prigozhin, had vowed to "go all the way" to Moscow to topple Russia's military leadership. The apparent coup attempt ended Saturday when Prigozhin called off the rebellion and agreed to leave Russia for Belarus. (Photo by Epsilon/Getty Images)

Prigozhin, Putin, and the Russian coup that evaporated

By John Mecklin | 2020 Doomsday Clock mentions, Analysis, Nuclear Risk

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Another warning from industry leaders on dangers posed by AI

By Sara Goudarzi | Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies