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Moon Jae-in and Kim Jong-un

After Biden’s election victory, what’s North Korea’s next move?

By Duyeon Kim | Columnists, Nuclear Risk

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris at a fundraiser in August 2020.

Here’s what to expect from Biden on top nuclear weapons issues

By Sara Z. Kutchesfahani | Columnists, Nuclear Risk

Plane releases fire retardant

Dealing with climate change requires more fight and less flight

By Dawn Stover | Climate Change, Columnists

Parthenon in Athens, undergoing partial restoration

What science and democracy have in common: us, hopefully

By Adam Sobel | Columnists, Opinion

Trump is a “superspreader.” Of misinformation

By Dawn Stover | Columnists, Disruptive Technologies

The US Supreme Court building.

Breaking gender barriers: Ruth Bader Ginsburg and … Marie Skłodowska Curie

By Sara Z. Kutchesfahani | Columnists, Nuclear Risk

What’s missing from American schools’ curricula? Nuclear weapons.

By Sara Z. Kutchesfahani | Columnists, Nuclear Risk

Bulletin May 1946 edition

Prominent nuclear scientists did not recommend the atomic bombings of Japan

By Sara Z. Kutchesfahani | Columnists, Hiroshima & Nagasaki

US lower 48 temperature forecast July 14-20 2020

Coronavirus and climate change: How to deal with converging crises

By Dawn Stover | Biosecurity, Climate Change, Columnists

Nuclear test time-lapse map

Trump apparently wants a nuclear test. It could be bad for your health.

By Sara Z. Kutchesfahani | Columnists, Nuclear Weapons

The departure hall of Terminal 7 at JFK airport on March 15 in New York City. Frustrated passengers complained of hours-long lines, crowded and unsanitary conditions and general disarray in the system for screening people for symptoms of the virus.(Photo by Johannes EISELE/AFP via Getty Images)

The Commissioned Corps was created to stop plagues at the US border. Why hasn’t it been used at airports during the pandemic?

By Laura H. Kahn | Biosecurity, Columnists

The Fairweather Mountains and Margerie Glacier at Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska

Heal the Earth: flatten other curves

By Dawn Stover | Biosecurity, Climate Change, Columnists