Iran war

Donald Trump's face is pictured next to a smartphone displaying one of his social media posts.

Why Trump’s nuclear blackmail of Iran failed spectacularly

By Jack Kennedy | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

A group of people in formal attire sit around a table with phones and documents; one person wears a "USA" cap. A map and security personnel are visible in the background.

Why Congress and senior officials must deny Trump a ‘nuclear escape’ in Iran

By Paul Slovic, Rose McDermott | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

A man in a suit and glasses speaks at a United Nations meeting, seated behind a sign reading "Iran (Islamic Republic of)".

Iran’s positions at the NPT Review Conference are rational. Ignoring them would weaken the treaty

By Syed Ali Zia Jaffery | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons

Three men in suits stand in front of two US flags; one speaks at a podium with the Vice Presidential seal, while the other two listen.

It seems Washington needs to be reminded of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

By Olamide Samuel | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

Sunoco gas station lit up at night

When the war in Iran comes home: Why the US isn’t ready for increasing hybrid threats

By Alexander Noyes, Mike Nelson | Disruptive Technologies

A conflict of attrition: Iran’s bet on asymmetric warfare

By Spenser A. Warren | Disruptive Technologies

Iranian flags wave in front of a nuclear power plant complex with a dome-shaped reactor building and a tall red-and-white smokestack in the background.

Trump’s ‘a whole civilization will die’ threat against Iran exploits long-standing ambiguity over what Washington considers legal in war

By Ali Alkis, Ludovica Castelli | Analysis, Nuclear Risk

Three drones flying in a pink and orange sky

The Iran conflict edges the world closer to a new drone arms race

By Dominika Kunertova | Disruptive Technologies

View looking north showing the Strait of Hormuz, connecting the Gulf of Oman with the Persian Gulf, with the Zagros Mountains and Qeshm Island of Iran in the background, and areas of Oman, Muscat and the United Arab Emirates in the foreground, as seen from the Space Shuttle Columbia in 1992. (Photo by Space Frontiers/Archive Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The war on Iran will speed the transition away from fossil fuels and toward nuclear energy, creating strategic challenges for the United States

By Rachel Bronson | Analysis, Nuclear Energy

A man holding a backpack after the bombing of a school in southern Iran

Key questions of reliability and accountability emerge in military AI use in Iran

By Ian Reynolds | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

A sign in Arabic and English: Drinking Water

Desalination, water, and war

By Peter Gleick | Climate Change