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United Nations

Project 2025: The right-wing conspiracy to torpedo global climate action

By Michael E. Mann | Climate Change

PRESS RELEASE: UN Sec. General Guterres says Doomsday Clock is a sign for leaders to “get to work”

By | What’s New at the Bulletin

climate activists at cop27 holding signs that read we are watching and do something

Has the UN climate change conference gotten too big to work?

By Bob Berwyn | Climate Change

Russian ambassador to the United Nations.

Russia (again) peddles its debunked US-Ukrainian bioweapons claims at the United Nations

By Jez Littlewood, Filippa Lentzos | Biosecurity

UN weapons inspectors

Introduction: UNSCOM and the future of WMD verification

By Henrietta Wilson, Filippa Lentzos | Disruptive Technologies

A perspective on UNSCOM culture

By Tim Trevan | Disruptive Technologies

Soldiers practice responding to a chemical or biological weapons attack.

How Russia worked to undermine UN bioweapons investigations

By Filippa Lentzos, Jez Littlewood | Chemical Weapons

The first meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, January 1946, London.

1947: How the American people feel about the atomic bomb

By Sylvia Eberhart | Nuclear Weapons

MQ-9 Reaper.

In the debate over autonomous weapons, it’s time to unlock the “black box” of AI

By Arthur Holland Michel | Artificial Intelligence, Opinion

donald trump child united nations nuclear missiles disarmament bernard baruch

Curious coincidence: the birth of Donald Trump and the struggle to abolish nuclear weapons

By Thomas Gaulkin | Nuclear Weapons

Soldier donning a gas mask.

The Biological Weapons Convention protocol should be revisited

By Lynn Klotz | Biosecurity, Opinion

Improving UN planning for a humanitarian response to a nuclear detonation

By J. Borrie | Nuclear Weapons