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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

Vladimir Putin

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

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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

Art and nuclear culture

By Kerry Brougher | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons

Terror as normality

By Joseph Masco | Nuclear Weapons

George P. Shultz: A Cold Warrior on a warming planet

By | Interviews

The Cuban Missile Crisis: A nuclear order of battle, October and November 1962

By Hans M. Kristensen, Robert S. Norris | Nuclear Notebook