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A nuclear war in the Persian Gulf?

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

A not so modest proposal: Maintain the INF, extend New START, and involve new actors in arms control

By Pierce S. Corden | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

Energy Secretary Rick Perry during a 2017 visit to Idaho National Laboratory.

Why Congress should say no to yet another fast reactor dream

By Victor Gilinsky, Henry Sokolski | Nuclear Energy, Opinion

Three (now four) strikes mean Bolton should be out

By Alexandra Bell, James McKeon | Events, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

A November 2018 meeting of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons that ran late into the night. Credit: Reint Vogelar/Twitter

How to bridge the gender gap in arms control and disarmament

By Renata H. Dalaqua | Chemical Weapons, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

President Obama awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to former Sen. Richard Lugar in November 2013. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Senator Richard G. Lugar: An appreciation

By William Tobey | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, Personal Essay

Dragons, Nuclear Weapons, and Game of Thrones

Dragons, nuclear weapons, and Game of Thrones

By Timothy Westmyer | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

How to save the Arctic’s moderating role on global warming

By Durwood J. Zaelke | Climate Change, Opinion

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The Green New Deal: One climate scientist’s view, from the other side of the Atlantic

By Myles Allen | Climate Change, Opinion

Adults won’t take climate change seriously. So we, the youth, are forced to strike.

By Isra Hirsi, Haven Coleman, Alexandria Villaseñor | Climate Change, Opinion, Voices of Tomorrow

missiles and N Korea flag

What to make of the collapse of the Hanoi summit

By Ankit Panda | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

The Hanford Tank Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant, also known as the Vit Plant, covers 65 acres with four nuclear facilities in southeastern Washington state. Credit: Bechtel National

“Incidental” nuclear waste: reconceiving a problem won’t make it go away

By Allison Macfarlane | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion