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Russian and Iranian foreign ministers meet in Moscow

A Russian perspective on Iran’s final offer for a nuclear deal

By Adlan Margoev | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, Voices of Tomorrow

Campaigner holding up a copy of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

What’s next for the nuclear ban treaty?

By Ruth Rohde | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, Voices of Tomorrow

power plant reflected in water at night

The Supreme Court hasn’t killed the Biden administration’s climate agenda, but its latest decision casts a shadow

By Max Sarinsky | Climate Change, Opinion

Why policy makers should beware claims of new ‘arms races’

By Haydn Belfield, Christian Ruhl | Artificial Intelligence, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, Voices of Tomorrow

The US Supreme Court building.

The Supreme Court’s EPA decision heralds a broad assault on democracy

By Adam Sobel | Analysis, Climate Change, Opinion

Exterior of Supreme Court building.

After Roe’s overturn: the abortion surveillance state

By Carrie N. Baker | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Opinion

A vampire bat colony.

As self-spreading vaccine technology moves forward, dialogue on its risks should follow

By Jonas Sandbrink | Biosecurity, Opinion

Food giants can help put alternative meats on everyone’s table

By Emma Ignaszewski | Climate Change, Opinion

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