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UN to conduct new study of the broad impacts of nuclear war. Not all countries want to know

By François Diaz-Maurin | Nuclear Weapons

A wargame suggests how a war between Israel and Iran might go nuclear

By Henry Sokolski | Nuclear Weapons

Humans should teach AI how to avoid nuclear war—while they still can

By Cameron Vega, Eliana Johns | Artificial Intelligence, Nuclear Weapons

An artist's rendition of Russian President Vladimir Putin's nuclear posture. Photo credit: kremlin.ru, changes made, CC BY 3.0.

Putin threatens again: An updated timeline on potential nuclear escalation of the Russia-Ukraine war

By Susan D’Agostino, François Diaz-Maurin | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Wargame simulated a conflict between Israel and Iran: It quickly went nuclear

By Henry Sokolski | Nuclear Weapons

Robots standing with a nuclear winter landscape in distance

Today’s AI threat: More like nuclear winter than nuclear war

By Daniel Zimmer, Johanna Rodehau-Noack | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

Top medical journals call for global action to reduce nuclear war risk

By John Mecklin | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Nowhere to hide: How a nuclear war would kill you—and almost everyone else. (Chinese)

By François Diaz-Maurin, Thomas Gaulkin | Multimedia, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

mass grave hiroshima 1945 atomic bomb

Cold War estimates of deaths in nuclear conflict

By William Burr | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

The 2022 nuclear year in review: A global nuclear order in shambles

By François Diaz-Maurin | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Nowhere to hide: How a nuclear war would kill you—and almost everyone else. (RU)

By François Diaz-Maurin, Thomas Gaulkin | Multimedia, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Nowhere to hide: How a nuclear war would kill you—and almost everyone else.

By François Diaz-Maurin, Thomas Gaulkin | Investigative Reporting, Multimedia, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons