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The underground Exploratory Studies Facility at Yucca Mountain in Nevada

The Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site has always been a political football. Trump is the latest president to fumble

By Allison Macfarlane | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Waste, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

USS Minnesota submarine

Trump’s 2021 budget: More nuclear spending, less of almost everything else

By Lawrence J. Korb | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

Trump and Macron plant a tree

Climate change: Trump and Republicans pivot from denial to “optimism”

By Dawn Stover | Climate Change, Columnists, Opinion

A greengrocer's table, full of vegetables.

PETA: Turn back the Doomsday Clock. Go vegan.

By Ingrid E. Newkirk | Climate Change, Opinion

Mohammad Javad Zarif, in 2019

Iran’s impending exit from the NPT: A new nuclear crisis

By Kaveh L. Afrasiabi, Nader Entessar | Nuclear Risk, Opinion

cnn doomsday clock op-ed jerry brown william perry mary robinson ban ki-moon

CNN op-ed: Why the world is closer than ever to Doomsday

By Jerry Brown, William J. Perry, Mary Robinson, Ban Ki-moon | Doomsday Clock, Opinion

American Petroleum Institute ad

Climate journalism and fossil fuel ads: an unholy marriage?

By Dawn Stover | Climate Change, Opinion

Climate scientist: I witnessed Australia on fire. Climate change is already here.

By Michael E. Mann | Climate Change, Opinion

Minuteman III missile in silo

Why the new US ICBMs would be too expensive even if they were free

By Robert J. Goldston | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

robot made of weapons dissolves into doves

Death of efforts to regulate autonomous weapons has been greatly exaggerated

By Neil C. Renic | Opinion, Technology and Security

Andrew Yang

Fact-check: Five claims about thorium made by Andrew Yang

By John Krzyzaniak, Nicholas R. Brown | Nuclear Energy, Opinion

smokestack and gas plant emissions, surreal sky

Fossil fuel companies claim they’re helping fight climate change. The reality is different.

By Kathy Mulvey, Myles Allen, Peter C. Frumhoff | Climate Change, Opinion