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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

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