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US President Donald Trump with his first Secretary of Defense, James Mattis, in 2017

Poll: What the American public likes and hates about Trump’s nuclear policies

By Jonathon Baron, Stephen Herzog | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

Declaring victory too soon: Lessons from Europe’s different responses to coronavirus

By Eileen Choffnes | Analysis

Fukushima accident town nearby

Another victim of the pandemic: trust in the government

By Allison Macfarlane | Analysis, Biosecurity, Nuclear Risk

People walking in Shiraz, Iran

Coronavirus in the Middle East: A rare opportunity for diplomacy?

By Chen Zak Kane, Rhianna Tyson Kreger | Analysis, Biosecurity

Then-US President Barack Obama and then-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev issue a joint statement announcing their pursuit of a New START treaty in London in April 2009. (White House photo by Pete Souza.)

Prevent the outbreak of another global security threat. Extend New START.

By Daryl G. Kimball | Analysis, Biosecurity, Nuclear Weapons

truck driving through high water in Florida storm

Is FEMA footing the bill for others’ repeated climate-change mistakes?

By Alice C. Hill | Analysis, Climate Change

Another victim of coronavirus: Science

By Kate Yoder | Analysis, Climate Change, Special Topics

Bioterrorism exercises

How to keep the new coronavirus from being used as a terrorist weapon

By Richard Pilch | Analysis, Biosecurity

coal miner silhouettes lit by headlamps

With financial squeeze tightening, coal is collapsing faster than some predicted

By Fred Pearce | Analysis, Climate Change

Edmonton, Alberta skyline at dusk

Between COVID-19 and a price war, Canada’s oil patch is on life support

By Ainslie Cruickshank | Analysis, Climate Change

A drive-thru coronavirus testing site.

South Korea learned its successful Covid-19 strategy from a previous coronavirus outbreak: MERS

By HyunJung Kim | Analysis, Technology and Security

DNA molecule

Inside a lab trying to develop a coronavirus vaccine

By Helen Santoro | Analysis