Analysis

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Dismantle, weaponize, or rebuild: Why the Iran nuclear threat isn’t going away

By Sina Azodi | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

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The US government’s dangerous rush to produce new plutonium pits

By Dylan Spaulding, Curtis T. Asplund | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

The U.S. Capitol dome next to a document featuring the U.S. and Saudi Arabian flags, a pen, and the text “TO BE FILLED IN LATER.”

Congress has the power to fix the Trump-Saudi nuclear deal

By Alan J. Kuperman | Analysis, Nuclear Risk

To lead on nuclear disarmament, Australia must renounce the US umbrella

By Jack Kennedy | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

A graphic showing four fighter jets leaving contrails, a large bomb, and a white dove carrying an olive branch.

The nuclear paradox: Why the world wants both deterrence and disarmament

By Lauren Sukin, Luis Rodriguez, Stephen Herzog | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

A large blue robotic hand points towards a person seated at a desk in a grand, ornate room with yellow lighting.

AI doesn’t need ‘superintelligence’ or evil intent to start a nuclear war

By Paul Slovic, Herbert Lin | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

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Why the world’s top nuclear nation is sitting out the hype on small reactors

By AnnaJulia Yates, Allison Macfarlane, Alexander Wimmers | Analysis, Nuclear Energy

Leaders from the United States and China sit around a conference table with documents, flowers, and flags, engaging in a formal discussion.

Trump and Xi agreed on “strategic stability.” They now need to decide what it means

By Tong Zhao | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

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The US acknowledged its space weapons. Now it must build guardrails

By Mallory Stewart | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Weapons

People sit in a large, circular conference room, attending a meeting at the United Nations Security Council.

The next Iran strike: How legal, economic, and diplomatic pressures are priming the region for war

By Seyed Hossein Mousavian | Analysis, Nuclear Risk

Satellite images show covered structures at Hami, Yumen, and Jilantai in China, labeled as suspected missile silo fields and a missile training site, with coordinates and dates listed for each location.

Here’s why China acknowledged its new missile silos in a documentary

By Robert Rust | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

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“The internet is a giant copying machine”: Interview with Vint Cerf

By Dan Drollette Jr | Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Disruptive Technologies, Magazine