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Making sense of North Korea’s recent ICBM and (possible) nuclear tests
Published May 27, 2022In a reversal from its earlier position, North Korea test-launched on Wednesday a suspected intercontinental ballistic missile
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An energetic exchange on the costs of decarbonizing Europe
Published May 26, 2022 In the November 2021 issue of the Bulletin magazine, “How to make the renewables revolution a reality,” Robert Rosner and
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Rebuttal: Current nuclear weapons policy not safe or sane
Published May 24, 2022It is hard to overstate the importance of nuclear weapons policies, for any nuclear use would have catastrophic consequences.
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How Australia’s new leader can fix the submarine deal
Published May 22, 2022Australian voters last week ousted their government in favor of the Labor Party, which traditionally opposes both nuclear
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Potential US responses to the Russian use of non-strategic nuclear weapons in Ukraine
Published May 16, 2022When the rhetoric from the Russian political and military leadership turns to the possibility of a war pitting the United
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Survey: Americans love conspiracy theories, and that’s dangerous for everyone
Published May 11, 2022A segment of the American population has long embraced conspiratorial thinking. False beliefs about moon landings or space
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On Victory Day, Putin points fingers but doesn’t escalate war
Published May 09, 2022In a defiant Victory Day speech in Red Square today, Russian President Vladimir Putin defended his war in Ukraine as “a fight
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How to host a refugee, spot fake war images, say “welcome” in Ukrainian, and more
Published May 06, 2022Even though Russia spent last December and January massing troops along its border with Ukraine, its brutal February 24th
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Virtual Program—Goodbye sole purpose: The Biden administration’s emerging nuclear policy and budget
Published April 28, 2022 Watch the Bulletin virtual program “Goodbye sole purpose: The Biden administration’s emerging nuclear policy and
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Illia Ponomarenko: Ukraine’s most-followed war journalist is a “dude” from Donbas
Published April 28, 2022In November 2021, Illia Ponomarenko, a Ukrainian defense reporter, was fired from his job at the Kyiv Post—the country’s
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Will Putin go nuclear? A timeline of expert comments
Published April 27, 2022“The risk of global nuclear war has practically disappeared,” Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union,
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The United States has supported successful mediation in 11 vicious conflicts since 1990: Could Ukraine make it an even dozen?
Published April 27, 2022Up to now, the United States, along with its Western partners, has been rightly preoccupied with furnishing Ukraine the
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Chernobyl is still changing: Four enduring stories and a recent one
Published April 25, 2022“One of the atomic reactors has been damaged,” a Radio Moscow broadcast announced about the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant
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Siegfried Hecker: Putin has destroyed the world nuclear order. How should the democracies respond?
Published April 21, 2022One of the world’s foremost nuclear security and policy experts, Sig Hecker has spent much of an illustrious career working
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Four unanswered questions about the intersection of war and nuclear power
Published April 19, 2022For a night on March 3, Russian military forces seized the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine, damaged its