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Vladimir Putin

After Putin – What?

By Vladislav Zubok | Special Topics

St Basil's cathedral, Red Square, Moscow

What do ordinary Russians think? Interview with a Russian independent reporter

By Dan Drollette Jr | Special Topics

Russian honor guard

Introduction—Russia: What to expect next?

By Dan Drollette Jr | Opinion, Special Topics, The INF Treaty and the Future of Arms Control

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Putin’s psychology and nuclear weapons: the fundamentalist mindset

By Charles B. Strozier, David M. Terman | Special Topics

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Russia says Ukraine is preparing a “dirty bomb.” Is it true, and what does it mean?

By François Diaz-Maurin, Dan Drollette Jr | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

A launch of the Russian Iskander-M, which can carry a tactical nuclear warhead, at the Kapustin Yar proving ground in March 2018. Photo credit: the websites (mil.ru, минобороны.рф) of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.

Rhetoric in Ukraine has reinforced the fallacy of limited nuclear exchange

By John Gower, Andrew Weber | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

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The precedent the world—and Russia—has rejected

By Nina Tannenwald, David Holloway | Opinion

Sixty years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, how to face a new era of global catastrophic risks

By Christian Ruhl | Artificial Intelligence, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, Voices of Tomorrow

Pushing back against Putin’s threat of nuclear use in Ukraine

By Steven Pifer | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Fear and Loathing in Moscow: The Russian biological weapons program in 2022

By Robert Petersen | Biosecurity

“Not a bluff:” Losing ground in Ukraine, Putin raises nuclear threats

By François Diaz-Maurin | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

one-woman protest outside old KGB headquarters, Moscow

“When it comes to Russia, it’s like living in a volcano” — Interview with Farida Rustamova, an independent reporter in Putin’s Russia

By Dan Drollette Jr | Interviews