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Obituary: Mike Moore, who edited the Bulletin at the dawn of the post-Cold War era

By Matt Field | Analysis

JFK in White House in Cuban Missile Crisis

60 years later: How many nuclear weapons did the US and USSR have in the Cuban Missile Crisis?

By Hans M. Kristensen, Robert S. Norris | Analysis

The new science that could help spot the next pandemic before it begins

By Yong-Bee Lim | Analysis, Biosecurity

Ukrainian officials attend the opening of the Joint Coordination Centre (JCC) for Ukrainian grain exports in Istanbul. - Turkey formally opened a joint coordination centre for Ukrainian grain exports under a UN-backed deal aimed at resuming shipments for the first time since Russia's February invasion of its neighbor. (Photo by OZAN KOSE/AFP via Getty Images)

War and peace: imagining a way from one to the other in Ukraine

By Aleksandr S. Kolbin | Analysis, Nuclear Risk

A polio victim.

Polio is back in the United States. How did that happen?

By Matt Field | Analysis, Biosecurity

French soldiers cooking in the Algerian Sahara in 1961.

A new window into France’s nuclear history

By Austin R. Cooper | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Creating a model democratic alternative to the surveillance state

By Ishan Sharma | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies

barbed wire and closed-circuit TV camera

The high-tech surveillance state is not restricted to China: Interview with Maya Wang of Human Rights Watch

By Dan Drollette Jr | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies, Special Topics

x-ray of hand with RFID chip implanted

Microchips in humans: consumer-friendly app, or new frontier in surveillance?

By Ahmed Banafa | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies

What a Cold War crisis over Taiwan could tell us about China-Russia relations today

By (Clark) Aoqi Wu | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, Special Topics

The Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant in Central California. Photo credit: marya from San Luis Obispo, USA via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

The Diablo Canyon nuclear plant: assessing the seismic risks of extended operation

By Edwin Lyman | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

Bounty flyer offering $25 million for information about al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. Photo credit: US State Department

Why al-Zawahiri’s death should focus attention on nuclear terrorism—foreign and domestic

By Scott Roecker, Nickolas Roth | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons