At doom’s doorstep: It is 100 seconds to midnight

Opinion

oil company sign satire

Big Oil’s lies about climate change—a climate scientist’s take

By Adam Sobel | Climate Change, Opinion

drought map of American West July 1 2021

Dying from the heat

By Peter Gleick | Climate Change, Opinion, Personal Essay

view from ocean of condo collapse in Florida

In climate change era, was Surfside collapse really an unpredictable “Black Swan” event?

By John Morales | Climate Change, Opinion

J. Robert Oppenheimer. Credit: James Vaughn. CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. Accessed via Flickr.

Four senators ask Biden to clear Oppenheimer’s name

By Susan D’Agostino | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

Maj. Gen. William F. Burns at the United States Army War College. Photo provided by the family and used with permission.

William Burns, behind-the-scenes advisor in US-Soviet nuclear talks, dies at 88

By Lawrence J. Korb, Arnold S. Kohen | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

Time exposure showing the tracks of the missiles’ six dummy warheads, white-hot from air friction, arriving 8,000 km down-range near Kwajalein Atoll in the Western Pacific. The domes in the foreground house tracking telescopes. As a part of the post-Cold War reductions, the Minuteman IIIs were downgraded to one warhead each. Credit: US Air Force photos from National Security Archive and US National Archive collections respectively. Public domain image.

Biden should end the launch-on-warning option

By Frank N. von Hippel | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

After Geneva: Will Self-Interest Suffice?

By Walter C. Clemens Jr. | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

What role will America’s European allies play after the Biden-Putin summit?

By Ivanka Barzashka | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

Next step in arms control: Putin must be pragmatic

By John Erath | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

Biden and Putin signaled an openness for substantive talk

By Robert Rosner | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

Biden in Geneva: Strategic stability is a conduit for arms control

By Sharon Squassoni | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

The Biden-Putin summit from the eyes of a Geneva local

By Pavel Podvig | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion