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People walking in Bucharest, Romania. Credit: Jake Stimpson. Accessed via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 2.0.

Poll: Russia’s nuclear saber-rattling is rattling neighbors’ nerves

By Lauren Sukin, Alexander Lanoszka | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Working trip of the President of Ukraine to the Kyiv region. Creid: Official Website of the president of Ukraine. Accessed via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 4.0.

Russia committed war crimes. But are they genocide?

By Susan D’Agostino | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

artist's impression of Dreadnought-class submarine

America’s new multibillion-dollar nuclear warhead is a great deal for the British

By Shane Ward | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, Voices of Tomorrow

Virtual Program: The war in Ukraine and its implications for our nuclear future

By Halley Posner | Nuclear Risk

Wheat. Credit: Rawpixel. CC0 1.0.

Global hunger crisis looms as war in Ukraine sends food prices soaring

By Susan D’Agostino | Analysis, Climate Change, Nuclear Risk

US President Bill Clinton, Russian President Boris, Yeltsin, and Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk sign the Trilateral Agreement on transferring nuclear weapons from Ukraine to Russia and associated matters in Moscow, January 1994. Photo credit: Joseph P. Harahan, historian of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, and the Clinton Presidential Library.

Why the Ukraine war does not mean more countries should seek nuclear weapons

By Jeffrey W. Knopf | Nuclear Weapons

Could China’s “hot-swappable” missile system start an accidental nuclear war?

By Sky Lo | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, Voices of Tomorrow

If Ukraine chooses neutrality, what could that look like?

By Mariana Budjeryn | Nuclear Risk, Opinion

US President Joe Biden (L) and Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) pose for press ahead of the US-Russia summit at the Villa La Grange, in Geneva on June 16, 2021. (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

The day after the Ukraine war

By Robert J. Goldston | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Internal Troops of the Ministry for Internal Affairs (Russia). Credit: Vitaly V. Kuzmin. Accessed via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0.

Russian forces leave Chernobyl; UN watchdog offers Ukraine more help

By Susan D’Agostino | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

IAEA director general meeting with Ukraine officials

How the IAEA can help nuclear power plants in Ukraine’s war zone

By Noah C. Mayhew | Nuclear Energy, Opinion, Voices of Tomorrow

The science says that children experience better mental health outcomes when their caregivers talk with them about difficult subjects, including war and nuclear threats. Credit: Ben Wicks. Unsplash license. https://unsplash.com/photos/iDCtsz-INHI

How to talk to your kids about the war in Ukraine

By Susan D’Agostino | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons