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Ukraine war

An illustration of three nuclear missiles exploding from a smartphone screen and labeled as facts, context, and engagement

How nongovernmental entities are tailoring their outreach to address nuclear escalation

By Clara Sherwood, Jamie Withorne | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Voices of Tomorrow

Lessons from Zaporizhzhia: How to protect reactors against ‘nuclear piracy’

By Ali Alkis, Bethany Goldblum | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

Widening the field of view on ‘Oppenheimer’

By Robert J. Goldston | Nuclear Weapons

A Russian serviceman patrols the territory of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant on May 1, 2022.

The largest danger at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant: intentional sabotage

By Matthew Bunn | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

people in boat in flooded streets

Dam explosion in Ukraine unleashes ‘ecological disaster’

By Nitish Pahwa | Climate Change

Ukrainian dam is destroyed; nuclear plant lives in a ‘grace period’

By François Diaz-Maurin | Nuclear Energy

One year later, new dangers threaten Ukraine’s embattled Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant

By Edwin Lyman | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

Russia suspends New START and is ready to resume nuclear testing

By François Diaz-Maurin | Nuclear Weapons

Research ship and icebreaker in Arctic ice

The Ukraine war is affecting vital Arctic research

By Ed Struzik | Analysis

Psychological reflections on the tragic dynamics of war

By Charles B. Strozier | Opinion

Russia’s “dirty bomb” disinformation, annotated

By Matthew Bunn | Multimedia, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Special Topics

rusted nuclear submarine at dock

War puts cleanup of Russia’s radioactive wrecks on ice

By Charles Digges | Nuclear Risk