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Donald Trump

The US presidential candidates are not confronting the nuclear threat that haunts the world

By Robert Jay Lifton | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

Trump could win back the nuclear codes. Biden should put guardrails on the nuclear arsenal—now.

By Tom Z. Collina | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

Trump takes off his mask.

Did Trump share his real opinion on childhood vaccines with anti-vaccine crusader Robert F. Kennedy Jr.?

By Matt Field | Biosecurity

Trump has a strategic plan for the country: Gearing up for nuclear war

By Joe Cirincione | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

No debate: On existential threats, Biden, Trump, and CNN all largely failed

By John Mecklin, Thomas Gaulkin | Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Risk, Special Topics

Is there any debate? This is the existential threat scorecard you need to rate the Biden and Trump matchup

By John Mecklin | Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Risk, Special Topics

Mar-a-Lago in March 2019. Photo credit: The White House

Searching for the meaning of the search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago

By John Mecklin | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons, Special Topics

VIDEO – Zelensky’s journey: A standup comic stands up to Putin

By Thomas Gaulkin | Multimedia, Special Topics

US Space Force insignia

Space Force: Fact or fiction?

By Kaitlyn Johnson | Disruptive Technologies

The new Woodward and Costa book shows why no president should have “sole authority” to start a nuclear war

By Jessica Sleight | Nuclear Risk

Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Zhao LIjian.

After the lab-leak theory, US-Chinese relations head downhill

By Yanzhong Huang | Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies

Trump on One America News.

Uncanceled: Banned from Facebook, Trump reaches millions on TV

By Matt Field | Analysis