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Opinion

Why US sanctions against Pakistan’s ballistic missile program might backfire

By Syed Ali Zia Jaffery | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

A large container ship on the ocean

Note to Syrian rebels: Give up Assad’s chemical weapons and prosecute those who used them

By Doniyor Mutalov | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, Voices of Tomorrow

tearing hair out at meal with climate change-denier

Advice for Thanksgiving 2024: How to deal with the climate change-denier at the table

By Richard C. J. Somerville | Climate Change, Opinion, Special Topics

Three Mile Island

Congress wants to turn the nuclear regulator into the US industry’s cheerleader—again

By Victor Gilinsky | Nuclear Energy, Opinion

Biden allowing Ukraine to strike into Russia is much ado for little consequence

By Mariana Budjeryn | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

Dispatch from a nuclear petting zoo

By Collin Van Son | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, Voices of Tomorrow

Welcome to the American petrostate

By Michael E. Mann | Climate Change, Opinion

Americans elect a climate change denier (again)

By Jessica McKenzie | Climate Change, Opinion

Why this is a climate election—even if that hasn’t been apparent on the trail

By Andrew Revkin | Analysis, Climate Change, Opinion

What it will take to restart decommissioned US nuclear plants. A primer

By Kathryn Huff, Nathan Ryan | Nuclear Energy, Opinion

A man walks towards a flooded river, across a mud-strewn road.

The role of the scientist in a post-truth world

By John Morales | Climate Change, Opinion

Top infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci responds to accusations by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., as he testifies before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, on July 20, 2021. (Photo by J. Scott Applewhite-Pool/Getty Images)

Why science needs marketing

By Melissa Harris | Biosecurity, Climate Change, Opinion, Science Denial