A first-of-its-kind report by 18 US intelligence agencies explains how the climate crisis could increase geopolitical tensions around the globe—but will government heed the warning?

US officials point to data suggesting that breakthrough infections in vaccinated people leading to serious cases of COVID-19 could start to tick up. The Biden administration announced that vaccinated people could begin receiving booster shots in September.

Eight years ago, author David Quammen interviewed scientists about the possibility of a new pandemic. Their prediction: there would indeed be a new disease, likely from the coronavirus family, coming out of a bat, and it would happen in or around a wet market in China. But what was not predictable was how unprepared the world would be.

Younger generations want global leaders to commit to drastically reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and to finance climate mitigation and adaption in the hardest hit countries.

A foreign journalist ekes out insight on the US-North Korean nuclear standoff from a visit to Pyongyang.

Conversations Before Midnight Virtual Reality Tour through the Doomsday Clock, 2018-19, In Memory of Martyl, courtesy of Ellen Sandor & (art)n. Annual Event November 9, 2021 | 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Central Time This unique virtual experience allows you and your guests to join small, carefully curated “tables” and engage with our global audience, … Continued

“Remember polio? I don’t.” Here’s why one sign at the Boston science rally touched a nerve.

Some pretty far-out ideas for climate change are being developed in biology labs in the United States. Could scientific developments like a lab-created woolly mammoth or carbon dioxide eating microbes be surer bets to tackle climate change than US governmental action?

While the nuclear situation between India and Pakistan is not good, it's been over-dramatized as near-inevitable here in the West, says a noted physicist from the region.

Ukrainians have accused the Russians of genocide and taken their case to the International Court of Justice in The Hague. Unfortunately for the Ukrainians, the evidence is accumulating too quickly.

With "joy" as the operative word among Democrats rallying at the DNC, nuclear weapons seemed very far from their minds.

The new B61-13 nuclear bomb, it turns out, is just another option to blow up something the Pentagon can already destroy, and many times over. In fact, each US nuclear-armed submarine carries seven times the destructive power of all the bombs dropped during World War II, including the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan.

There are strong arguments to be made against building new US intercontinental ballistic missiles, on the basis of their cost, their vulnerability, and the contribution of their launch-on-warning posture to the danger of accidental nuclear war. This piece lays out those arguments and points out that, if Congress is unable to make a decision on eliminating US ICBMs in the next few years, the life of existing Minuteman III missiles could be extended to 2060 at a much lower cost than the new ICBM.

Nuclear Notebook: How many nuclear weapons does the U.S. have in South Korea? During the Cold War, the United States deployed nuclear weapons in South Korea continuously for 33 years, from 1958 to 1991. The South Korean-based nuclear arsenal peaked at an all-time high of approximately 950 warheads in 1967. Since the last US nuclear … Continued

This month Turkey and Japan agreed to begin exclusive negotiations on constructing four nuclear power reactors at Sinop on the Black Sea. The deal marks the start of Turkey's second nuclear power project, after it reached a similar deal three years ago with a Russian consortium to construct four reactors at Akkuyu near the Mediterranean.

With his new Nuclear Posture Review, President Biden has passed on his best chance to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in US security policy.