New special issue: Russia after Putin

Nuclear Risk

Biden’s nuclear posture review maintains nuclear status quo

By Emma Claire Foley | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

A failure to review America’s nuclear posture

By Joe Cirincione | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Russian actions at Zaporizhzhia show need for better legal protections of nuclear installations

By Luis Rodriguez, Lauren Sukin | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

chalkboard drawing cartoon bomb

Russia says Ukraine is preparing a “dirty bomb.” Is it true, and what does it mean?

By François Diaz-Maurin, Dan Drollette Jr | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Germany’s nuclear weapons policy and the war: Money for nukes, words for disarmament

By Moritz Kütt | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

a man crosses a destroyed bridge holding water bottles

Water as weapon, and casualty, in Russia’s war on Ukraine

By Peter Gleick | Climate Change, Nuclear Energy

Déjà vu and nuclear roulette: The Bulletin’s initial reactions to the Cuban Missile Crisis

By David A. Wargowski | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Nuclear injustice: How Russia’s invasion of Ukraine shows the staggering human cost of deterrence

By Franziska Stärk, Ulrich Kühn | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Poll: Americans, Japanese, and South Koreans don’t support using nuclear weapons against North Korea

By David M. Allison, Stephen Herzog | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

A launch of the Russian Iskander-M, which can carry a tactical nuclear warhead, at the Kapustin Yar proving ground in March 2018. Photo credit: the websites (mil.ru, минобороны.рф) of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.

Rhetoric in Ukraine has reinforced the fallacy of limited nuclear exchange

By John Gower, Andrew Weber | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Nowhere to hide: How a nuclear war would kill you—and almost everyone else.

By François Diaz-Maurin | Investigative Reporting, Multimedia, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Soviet nuclear launch site in Cuba

“Midnight is upon us”—the Cuban Missile Crisis as seen at the time, in one person’s words

By Harrison Brown | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons