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map showing water-related conflicts over thousands of years

4,000 years of conflict over water: a timeline

By Morgan Shimabuku | Analysis, Climate Change

This is a screenshot from a 1975 Bulletin magazine issue that focused heavily on the threats that humanity faced on the threshold of the last quarter of the Twentieth Century. From arms control discussions between the US and Soviet Union, to discussions on how to combat a mounting energy crisis, this issue features commentary from luminaries like historian Alice Kimball Smith and champion of free speech Samuel H. Day Jr.

An avid peace activist’s agenda from 1975

By Samuel H. Day Jr. | Nuclear Risk

Ukrainian officials attend the opening of the Joint Coordination Centre (JCC) for Ukrainian grain exports in Istanbul. - Turkey formally opened a joint coordination centre for Ukrainian grain exports under a UN-backed deal aimed at resuming shipments for the first time since Russia's February invasion of its neighbor. (Photo by OZAN KOSE/AFP via Getty Images)

War and peace: imagining a way from one to the other in Ukraine

By Aleksandr S. Kolbin | Analysis, Nuclear Risk

The A1 Verse: How many the fictitious shores

By Thomas Gaulkin | Special Topics

When a Nordic dispute over the strategically important Åland Islands arose in the early 20th century, Finland and Sweden turned to international mediation to resolve the issue peacefully. Photo permission and credit by Douglas P. Fry.

Peaceful societies are not utopian fantasy. They exist.

By Douglas P. Fry, Geneviève Souillac | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

Women and weapons: Redressing the gender gap: An Indian response

By Reshmi Kazi | Nuclear Weapons