A crucial role for civil servants and US allies in ensuring the survival of a historic nuclear agreement. 

Trump's likely vice-president, Indiana governor Mike Pence, is a climate foot-dragger, if not an outright denier, says this piece in Scientific American. Which could set things back a lot if The Donald and Co get into the White House. And it shows that the "calming voice" of the VP may not be so calm after … Continued

In this interview, national-security journalist Fred Kaplan shares some of the secret history of nuclear war revealed in his just-published book The Bomb—including President Trump’s perplexity about why he doesn’t have as many nuclear weapons as past presidents had.

Trump shared debunked concerns over childhood vaccines with anti-vaccine presidential rival Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Trump's skepticism of routine vaccinations is longstanding.

Biden will soon release a document—the Nuclear Posture Review (NPR)—laying out his administration’s vision on nuclear risks. All indications are that it will look a lot like former president Donald Trump’s.

Elected Republican doctors just cut an ad to encourage their vaccine-hesitant constituents to get COVID-19 vaccine shots. But can the likes of Wyoming senator and orthopedic surgeon John Barrasso, or Kansas senator and gynecologist Roger Marshall, convince the nearly half of Republicans who say they don't want the vaccines to get them? Or do public health officials need to call on the help of an even larger figure, former president Donald Trump, a man who since the first cases of COVID-19 were detected in the United States did very little of what health experts recommended. Some of Trump’s advisers think it’s time.

On the eve of former President Donald Trump's second impeachment trial, RT, a Russian government-sponsored media network began posting on Gab, a right-wing social media platform teaming with disaffected Trump supporters and conspiracy theorists. On Gab, RT will find plenty of people ready to believe the worst about mainstream US institutions.

The president of the United States and his wife have tested positive for COVID-19, CNN reports, based on the president’s own Twitter post. The test results on Donald Trump and his wife Melania were made public in the hours following news reports that top presidential advisor Hope Hicks had contracted the disease.

Both Trump and Biden oppose the long-languishing proposal to bury spent nuclear fuel at Yucca Mountain. It’s time to abandon it.

It’s a misreading of Cold War history to say the United States spent the Soviet Union into oblivion and won the arms race.

With cases of COVID-19 mounting and financial markets falling, President Donald Trump once again sought to project a grip on the growing coronavirus outbreak in a Wednesday address. Public health expert Saskia Popescu told me a little about what she’s seeing on the front-lines of the fight against the disease threat and shared some thoughts on how the outbreak will end.

The summits in Singapore and Hanoi held intrinsic value for Kim Jong-Un, who reveled in the opportunity to share a stage with the American president. For Iran, no such intrinsic value exists.

The Trump administration’s “maximum pressure” campaign on Iran has picked up pace. Last month, the administration designated the Revolutionary Guards as a terror organization. Last week, it cancelled waivers from US sanctions that allowed some countries to buy Iranian crude oil, aiming to force Iranian oil exports to zero, and only renewed some of the … Continued

US-North Korea negotiations are stuck. Trump should deploy the European Union.

The Trump administration is trying to get the phrase "climate change" stripped from an Arctic Council declaration that Sec. of State Mike Pompeo is expected to sign next week. The intergovernmental body's statement may, however, have a "robust" discussion of climate change's impacts on the Arctic. It's the latest example of the administration talking about climate change while avoiding the actual phrase.

US government officials appear to be advancing a potential sale of nuclear power plants to Saudi Arabia. Late last month, Reuters reported that Energy Secretary Rick Perry approved six secret authorizations for companies to do preliminary work on a Saudi nuclear deal without congressional oversight. The Reuters article followed an interim staff report that US … Continued

President Trump wants to withdraw the United States from the INF Treaty signed by presidents Reagan and Gorbachev in 1987. But can he do so without Congressional approval?

In the hopes of cementing a deal for “massive and very positive change” with China on trade, US President Donald Trump has intervened repeatedly in the past several months when US prosecutors and regulators have taken action against Chinese tech companies. And while lawmakers have capitulated and gone easy on the firms in the past, … Continued

The initial take on the summit between Presidents Trump and Putin does not augur well for US national interests. It is difficult to see how the summit will do much to move US-Russia relations to a better place. The hope, a faint one, is that follow-on discussions between US and Russian officials will begin to … Continued

It’s nice to not suffer a nuclear war, but otherwise the Trump-Kim summit was a bust for the United States.