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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

Why Russia is more likely to go nuclear in Ukraine if it’s winning

By Mariana Budjeryn | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

US President Joe Biden (L) and California Governor Gavin Newsom at an event discussing the opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, California in June 2023. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Why California Gov. Gavin Newsom should sign an AI model regulation bill

By Anthony Aguirre | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Opinion

atomic bomb test in Marshall Islands

Project 2025’s stance on nuclear testing: A dangerous step back

By Tom Armbruster | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

Is America buying nuclear weapons to win a war or to prevent one?

By Jack O’Doherty | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, Voices of Tomorrow

Trump could win back the nuclear codes. Biden should put guardrails on the nuclear arsenal—now.

By Tom Z. Collina | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

just stop oil protest

In the UK, a dangerous escalation in the criminalization of climate protests

By Oscar Berglund | Climate Change, Opinion

Aerial view of throngs of people passing the United Nations headquarters on their way to a rally against nuclear weapons

The false equivalency of nuclear disarmament and nuclear abolition

By Jasmine Owens | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, Voices of Tomorrow

Trump has a strategic plan for the country: Gearing up for nuclear war

By Joe Cirincione | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

World leaders standing in a row at the 2024 G7 meeting in italy

Gender equality: Why is it still up for debate?

By Federica Dall’Arche | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

UN Security Council members abstaining on Russian resolution in November 2022

False Russian claims hijacked the biological weapons treaty. Here’s how to reclaim it

By Eva Siegmann | Biosecurity, Opinion, Voices of Tomorrow

France wants to extend its nuclear umbrella to Europe. But is Macron ready to trade Paris for Helsinki?

By Carine Guerout, Jason Moyer | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion