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dead tree and desert

EU, Canada, New Zealand and developing countries vow to keep up the fight

By Fiona Harvey, Ben Doherty, Jonathan Watts | Analysis, Climate Change

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Pop Music and the Bomb

By Reba A. Wissner | Analysis, Personal Essay, Special Topics

Study: The world’s worst mass extinction should make you very nervous for our future

By Jackie Flynn Mogensen | Analysis, Climate Change

Former US President George H.W. Bush with former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Credit: National Archives and Records Administration

George H.W. Bush’s Legacy: Exit from “Tension City”

By Matt Field | Analysis, Doomsday Clock, What We’re Reading

The Syrian city of Aleppo depicted in the midst of a still ongoing civil war. Credit: British Foreign and Commonwealth Office / Basma CC BY-ND 2.0

Terrorists sometimes use chemical weapons, but the OPCW should focus on states

By Al Mauroni | Analysis, Chemical Weapons, Disruptive Technologies

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Move or spend a lot of money: The choices rising seas impose on coastal residents

By Emily Holden | Analysis, Climate Change

Rusty factory pipes

We must triple our efforts to counter catastrophic climate change. Or else.

By Fiona Harvey | Analysis, Climate Change

Graffiti in London, possibly a work of Banksy. Photo credit: Matt Brown

Thanksgiving advice: How to deal with climate change denying Uncle Pete

By Richard C. J. Somerville | Analysis, Climate Change

In Brazil, new foreign minister thinks climate change a plot by cultural Marxists

By Jonathan Watts | Analysis, Climate Change

BTS, the “atomic bomb shirt,” and South Korean attitudes toward nuclear weapons

By Viet Phuong Nguyen | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

A billet of highly enriched uranium that was recovered from scrap processed at the Y-12 National Security Complex Plant.

Why the security of nuclear materials should be focus of US-Russia nuclear relations

By Andrew W. Reddie, Bethany Goldblum | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, The INF Treaty and the Future of Arms Control

Will disruptive technology cause nuclear war?

By Matthew Kroenig, Bharath Gopalaswamy | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons