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The House passed a $14.3 billion aid package for Israel, 226-196, on November 2.

Emergency aid to Israel needs scrutiny

By Victor Gilinsky | Opinion, Special Topics

The silhouette of a drone flying over the mountains line at sunset

Threat in the sky: How cheap drones are changing warfare

By Sara Goudarzi | Disruptive Technologies

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressing a ceremony to mark Remembrance Day for the Fallen of Israel's Wars on April 14, 2021. Credit: Israeli Government Press Office/Kobi Gideon

Israel’s Netanyahu suspends minister for suggesting a nuclear weapons option in Gaza

By John Mecklin | Nuclear Weapons, Uncategorized

How Hamas innovated with drones to operate like an army

By Kerry Chávez, Ori Swed | Disruptive Technologies

The US silence on Israeli nuclear weapons and the right-wing Israeli government

By Victor Gilinsky | Nuclear Weapons

Less threats, more focus: What Biden needs to do to win an Iran nuclear deal

By Kimberly Peh, Soul Park | Nuclear Weapons

Will the EU diplomacy revive the Iran nuclear deal or keep spinning in a vacuum?

By Adérito Vicente | Nuclear Weapons

Royalty free photo under CC0 public domain license. Accessed via Piqsels.

Israel has long exported arms to India. Now it’s selling spyware too.

By Urvashi Sarkar | Disruptive Technologies, Technology and Security, Uncategorized

Michael Krepon, co-founder of the Stimson Center think tank, shows an aerial picture taken by the US military in the days after the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. The institution later gifted the photos to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. (Photo credit: NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)

Interview: Arms control expert Michael Krepon on a broader approach to keeping the nuclear peace

By John Mecklin | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Nuclear Notebook: Israeli nuclear weapons, 2022

By Hans M. Kristensen, Matt Korda | Nuclear Notebook, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

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

Drones add little to rocket-filled Israel-Palestine skies, but represent growing global threat

By Thomas Gaulkin | Disruptive Technologies, Technology and Security