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Armenia's Metsamor nuclear power plant cooling towers. (Credit: Adam Jones via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 2.0)

How nuclear power saved Armenia

By Areg Danagoulian | Nuclear Energy, Opinion

Interview: California Congressman Ted Lieu on what you can do about existential threats

By John Mecklin | Nuclear Risk, Opinion, Special Topics

US State Secretary Antony J. Blinken meets with Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on June 7, 2023.

The coming US-Saudi nuclear deal: Keep it honest

By Henry Sokolski, Sharon Squassoni | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

trump liquified natural gas export terminal

How wealthy countries evade responsibility for their fossil fuel exports

By Bill McKibben | Climate Change, Opinion

delegates celebration adoption of nuclear ban treaty

Bridging the gap between nuclear ban treaty supporters and opponents

By Hideo Asano | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, Uncategorized, Voices of Tomorrow

The House passed a $14.3 billion aid package for Israel, 226-196, on November 2.

Emergency aid to Israel needs scrutiny

By Victor Gilinsky | Opinion, Special Topics

Why a Russian nuclear expert thinks the Doomsday Clock should move away from midnight

By Pavel Podvig | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

Group of people around a table with a cybersecurity shield on a screen

The false promise of cyber conventions: Why the West is losing and what to do about it

By Jeppe T. Jacobsen, Brandon Valeriano | Opinion

If you worry about humanity, you should be more scared of humans than of AI

By Moran Cerf, Adam Waytz | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Opinion

There should be no Saudi uranium enrichment

By Victor Gilinsky | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

Building information resilience to reinforce arms control

By Kate Zander, Mayra Ameneiros, Ance Baura, Tomáš A. Nagy | Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, Voices of Tomorrow

Montana youth climate trial plaintiffs

Montana climate case delivers win for youth, science, and the environment

By Peter Gleick | Analysis, Climate Change, Opinion