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US President Bill Clinton, Russian President Boris, Yeltsin, and Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk sign the Trilateral Agreement on transferring nuclear weapons from Ukraine to Russia and associated matters in Moscow, January 1994. Photo credit: Joseph P. Harahan, historian of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, and the Clinton Presidential Library.

Why Putin’s betrayal of Ukraine could trigger nuclear proliferation

By Steven Pifer | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

Students participating in the 2018 National School Walkout

From guns to climate, America keeps proving it doesn’t really care about kids

By Dawn Stover | Climate Change, Columnists, Opinion

Nuclear tragedy in the Marshall Islands

By Sally Clark | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, Personal Essay

a broken part of the seawall at Gun Rock Beach damaged in the Blizzard of 1978

Why cities should ditch seawalls and let the water in

By Kristina Hill | Climate Change, Opinion

We need to get serious about the renewable energy revolution—by including nuclear power

By Michael Edesess | Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, Opinion

Brazil President Bolsonaro signing decree relaxing gun rules

Why Brazil shouldn’t let Bolsonaro stand in the way of ratifying the nuclear ban treaty

By Bárbara Cruvinel Santiago | Nuclear Energy, Opinion, Voices of Tomorrow

artist's impression of Dreadnought-class submarine

America’s new multibillion-dollar nuclear warhead is a great deal for the British

By Shane Ward | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, Voices of Tomorrow

Could China’s “hot-swappable” missile system start an accidental nuclear war?

By Sky Lo | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, Voices of Tomorrow

If Ukraine chooses neutrality, what could that look like?

By Mariana Budjeryn | Nuclear Risk, Opinion

P5 Press Conference at the United Nations. April 2013. Credit: U.S. Mission Geneva / Eric Bridiers. Accessed via Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/us-mission/8663813428 CC BY-ND 2.0.

Nuclear arms control: Still necessary, but more difficult than ever

By Stephen J. Cimbala, Lawrence J. Korb | Analysis, Opinion

WHO headquarters

Six paths forward to a “pandemic treaty”

By Daniel Gerstein | Biosecurity, Opinion

IAEA director general meeting with Ukraine officials

How the IAEA can help nuclear power plants in Ukraine’s war zone

By Noah C. Mayhew | Nuclear Energy, Opinion, Voices of Tomorrow