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Volodymyr Zelenskyy paid a visit to the wounded defenders of Ukraine undergoing treatment at a military hospital. Credit: Україна. Accessed via Wikipedia. Public domain mark 1.0.

Here’s what Western leaders need to remember about Zelensky’s emotional appeals

By Roger Petersen | Nuclear Risk, Opinion

Tacit rules to avoid a NATO-Russia war

By Steven Pifer | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

US and Aussie submarines

Introduction: Can the United States and China co-exist in the 21st century? Will they?

By John Mecklin | Opinion, Special Topics

ancient Greek warriors on vase

Interview with Graham Allison: Are the United States and China charging into Thucydides’s trap?

By John Mecklin | Interviews, Opinion, Special Topics

A close call at Ukraine reactor: On luck and nuclear disasters

By Maxime Polleri | Nuclear Risk, Opinion, Personal Essay

photo of Vladimir Putin from official Twitter page of Kremlin

Inside Putin’s head: Paranoid? Calculating? Obsessed by the conspiracy theories of a rehabilitated Russian fascist?

By Charles B. Strozier, David M. Terman | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

Russia launches invasion of Ukraine - Putin's troops 'seize control' of Chernobyl nuclear disaster site. Source: Sky News. https://news.sky.com/story/russia-launches-invasion-of-ukraine-forces-trying-to-seize-site-of-chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-12550026

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine invalidates key international relations assumptions

By François Diaz-Maurin | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

Iskander-M short-range ballistic missile system with two 9M723K5 missiles, at a Russian demonstration of military technology in 2017. The Iskander system is reported to be capable of firing ballistic missiles that can carry a tactical nuclear warhead. Photo by Vitaly Kuzmin

As tensions mount on Ukraine’s borders, it’s time to understand what led to the INF Treaty’s demise

By Aaron J. Berliner, Jake Hecla, Michael Bondin, Austin Mullen, Elena Osorio Camacena, Alex Droster, Dinara Ermakova, Tyler Scott Nagel, Nicole L. Nappi, Katherine J. Oosterbaan, Sarah R. Stevenson, Chelsea D. Willett, Eric F. Matthews, Manseok Lee, Karl van Bibber, Michael Nacht | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, Voices of Tomorrow

men standing on platform and looking at industrial equipment

Whether green, blue, or turquoise, hydrogen needs to be clean and cheap

By Eric McFarland | Analysis, Climate Change, Opinion

Russian military pilot in 2016. Credit: Министерство обороны Российской Федерации. License CC BY 4.0. Accessed via Wikimedia Commons.

Russia threatened a “military-technical” response for unmet demands. What could that mean?

By Pavel Podvig | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

wind turbines at sunset

How greed and politics are slowing the switch to renewable energy

By Andrew Dessler | Climate Change, Opinion

A 2016 Great Prophet wargame in southeastern Iran. Credit: Hossein Zohrevand for Tasnim News Agency. License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. Accessed via Wikimedia Commons.

Iran nuclear deal negotiators must act with urgency, given Iranian and Israeli nuclear brinkmanship

By Gawdat Bahgat | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion