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Opinion

Christopher Ford and Mike Pompeo.

Trump appointee wants “arms control for adults.” Experts couldn’t agree more.

By Sharon Squassoni | Nuclear Risk, Opinion

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 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