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A Facebook post.

Coronavirus disinformation adds conspiratorial fuel to a volatile Middle East

By Samikshya Siwakoti, Jacob N. Shapiro, Isra Thange, Alaa Ghoneim | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies

climate activist protest sign

“If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em”—latest strategy of climate activists at Harvard

By Emily Pontecorvo | Analysis, Climate Change

Map showing possible source region for radioisotopes detected by Swedish monitoring station on June 22 and 23, 2020.

Radiation detections in northern Europe: what we do and don’t know

By Cheryl Rofer | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Bruce Blair at the 2010 Global Zero Summit in Paris.

Bruce Blair: Challenging the accidental nuclear war machine at every turn

By Jessica Sleight, Zia Mian, Frank von Hippel | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

Japanese military leaders aboard the USS Missouri

What Europeans believe about Hiroshima and Nagasaki—and why it matters

By Benoît Pelopidas, Kjølv Egeland | Analysis, Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Nuclear Risk

Profiting from panic: the bizarre bogus cures and scams of the coronavirus era

By Alaa Ghoneim, Saiful Salihudin, Isra Thange, Anne Wen, Jan Oledan, Jacob N. Shapiro | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies

Boris Johnson posts a thank you message.

A jet ski vacation during the coronavirus lockdown? Online liars want to make you mad at politicians

By Giorgio Musto, Kamya Yadav, Audrey Yan, Jan Oledan, Jacob N. Shapiro | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies

Preventing the preventable: Strengthening international controls to thwart radiological terrorism

By Kenneth C. Brill, John H. Bernhard | Analysis

A duck receives a vaccine.

The pandemic risk of an accidental lab leak of enhanced flu virus: unacceptably high

By Lynn C. Klotz | Analysis, Biosecurity

Fact-checking organizations are checking coronavirus-related misinformation.

Fact-checking networks fight coronavirus infodemic

By Jan Oledan, Julia Ilhardt, Giorgio Musto, Jacob N. Shapiro | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies

empty hospital bed

Another victim of the coronavirus pandemic: Cancer research

By Jackie Flynn Mogensen | Analysis

The troubled Mixed-oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility project at the Savannah River Site is proposed to be transformed into a plutonium pit production facility. Photo (c) Timothy Mousseau, 2019.

Why a decision on a second US plutonium-pit-production factory should be delayed

By Frank von Hippel | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons