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A scene from the film 'The Day After' (1983) about the effects of a devastating nuclear holocaust on small-town residents of eastern Kansas. (Credit: American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.)

Nuclear injustice: Suggestions in support of a research agenda

By Benoît Pelopidas | Nuclear Weapons, Voices of Tomorrow

Putin at 20-foot long table with Macron

Distressing a system in distress: Global nuclear order and Russia’s war against Ukraine

By Mariana Budjeryn | Nuclear Weapons

Germany’s nuclear weapons policy and the war: Money for nukes, words for disarmament

By Moritz Kütt | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Nuclear injustice: How Russia’s invasion of Ukraine shows the staggering human cost of deterrence

By Franziska Stärk, Ulrich Kühn | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Making sense of North Korea’s recent ICBM and (possible) nuclear tests

By Seiyeon Ji, Victor Cha | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

A wind farm off the coast of Sweden, aerial photograph

An energetic exchange on the costs of decarbonizing Europe

By Amory B. Lovins, Robert Rosner, Sabrina Fields | Climate Change, Nuclear Energy

Rebuttal: Current nuclear weapons policy not safe or sane

By Stewart Prager, Alan Kaptanoglu | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

jet planes in flight

Sure, deter China—but manage risk with North Korea, too

By Ankit Panda | Analysis

President Reagan says goodbye to Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev after the last meeting at Hofdi House Reykjavik Iceland in October 1986

The rise and demise of arms control

By Michael Krepon | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

An existential discussion: What is the probability of nuclear war?

By Martin E. Hellman, Vinton G. Cerf | Nuclear Risk

US President Ronald Reagan visits the Soviet Union in the waning days of the Cold War.

1992: Keep peace by pooling armies

By Randall Forsberg | Nuclear Risk

Pope Francis in Hiroshima in November 2019.

A message from Hiroshima on the reality of the atomic bombing

By Hidehiko Yuzaki | Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Nuclear Weapons