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Ukraine

The A1 Verse: After a missile—

By Thomas Gaulkin | Special Topics

If Ukraine chooses neutrality, what could that look like?

By Mariana Budjeryn | Nuclear Risk, Opinion

US President Joe Biden (L) and Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) pose for press ahead of the US-Russia summit at the Villa La Grange, in Geneva on June 16, 2021. (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

The day after the Ukraine war

By Robert J. Goldston | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

P5 Press Conference at the United Nations. April 2013. Credit: U.S. Mission Geneva / Eric Bridiers. Accessed via Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/us-mission/8663813428 CC BY-ND 2.0.

Nuclear arms control: Still necessary, but more difficult than ever

By Stephen J. Cimbala, Lawrence J. Korb | Analysis, Opinion

Visualizing the news from Ukraine

By Thomas Gaulkin | Multimedia

WWII letter contains parallels with Russia’s attacks on Ukrainian civilians

By Robert K. Elder | Analysis

Internal Troops of the Ministry for Internal Affairs (Russia). Credit: Vitaly V. Kuzmin. Accessed via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0.

Russian forces leave Chernobyl; UN watchdog offers Ukraine more help

By Susan D’Agostino | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

A biological weapons threat to Ukraine is a biological weapons threat to the world

By Asha M. George | Biosecurity

IAEA director general meeting with Ukraine officials

How the IAEA can help nuclear power plants in Ukraine’s war zone

By Noah C. Mayhew | Nuclear Energy, Opinion, Voices of Tomorrow

The science says that children experience better mental health outcomes when their caregivers talk with them about difficult subjects, including war and nuclear threats. Credit: Ben Wicks. Unsplash license. https://unsplash.com/photos/iDCtsz-INHI

How to talk to your kids about the war in Ukraine

By Susan D’Agostino | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Why—and how—the world should condemn Putin for waving the nuclear saber

By Pavel Podvig | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

ice melting on a siberian lake

Russia’s war has chilling effect on climate science as Arctic temperatures soar

By Jessica McKenzie | Climate Change