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Armenia's Metsamor nuclear power plant cooling towers. (Credit: Adam Jones via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 2.0)

How nuclear power saved Armenia

By Areg Danagoulian | Nuclear Energy, Opinion

After Putin – What?

By Vladislav Zubok | Special Topics

Assessing the impact of Mikhail Gorbachev’s leadership on his country and the world

By Graham Allison | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev signing the INF Treaty in the East Room of the White House on December 8, 1987.

Mikhail Gorbachev, in his words and the words of others

By John Mecklin | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain. Written and illustrated by Eugene Yelchin. 208 pages. Candlewick Press. Ages 10 and up.

The Genius Under the Table: A poignant children’s book set in the Cold War

By Susan D’Agostino | Book Review, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, What We’re Reading

The building housing smallpox-causing virus at the VECTOR research center.

What happened after an explosion at a Russian disease research lab called VECTOR?

By Filippa Lentzos | Analysis, Biosecurity

US missile tests. Photo via Wikimedia Commons. Public Domain.

Strangelove redux: US experts propose having AI control nuclear weapons

By Matt Field | Artificial Intelligence, Nuclear Weapons

Former US President George H.W. Bush with former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Credit: National Archives and Records Administration

George H.W. Bush’s Legacy: Exit from “Tension City”

By Matt Field | Analysis, Doomsday Clock, What We’re Reading

Putin: The one-man show the West doesn’t understand

By Fiona Hill | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Baby Trump balloon

Now it’s murder

By Elisabeth Eaves | Chemical Weapons, What We’re Reading

Hybrid war: Russian contemporary political warfare

By Christopher S. Chivvis | Special Topics, Technology and Security

How to approach nuclear modernization?: A Russian response

By Eugene Miasnikov | Uncategorized