Nuclear proliferation

US-Israeli strikes on Iran: a reckoning with no clear ending

The joint military attacks have created a political vacuum and could create further hardship on the ground

US President Donald Trump delivers the first State of the Union address of his second term to a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., Feb 24, 2026.

Trump lays out case for possible attack on Iran in State of the Union

[WASHINGTON] US President Donald Trump briefly laid out his case for a possible attack on Iran in his State of the Union speech to Congress on Tuesday, saying he would not allow the world’s biggest sp...

US President Donald Trump has sent aircraft carriers, warships and jets to the region, raising the prospect of another attack on Iran.

Trump warns Iran of ‘bad things’ if no deal made, appears to set deadline of 10-15 days

[WASHINGTON] President Donald Trump warned Iran on Thursday that it must make a deal over its nuclear program or “really bad things” will happen, and appeared to set a deadline of no more than 10 to 1...

US President Donald Trump (right) said in an interview with NBC News on Feb 4, 2026, that Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (left) should be "very worried," as the US builds up its military forces in the region.

US says Trump prefers diplomacy with Iran but warns he has military options

Regional governments fear conflict could spill over to other countries in the Middle East

Trump has given the world a glimpse of a future in which the US joins the ranks of the revisionist powers seeking to redraw the map through threats and force.

The world is hedging its bets

We will enter an age of terrible instability if new security, economic and political structures don’t arise before the old ones are hollowed out

The Doomsday Clock is due to be reset in about three weeks.
THINKING ALOUD

Doomsday Clock and the paradox of nuclear weapons

With more flashpoints around the globe, are we inching ever closer to Armageddon?

Tourists in the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, with the Atomic Bomb Dome – the only structure that remained standing in the area around the US' atomic bombing of the city on Aug 6, 1945 – in the background.

Nuclear threat still hangs over our world, 80 years on

While many fear the use of nuclear weapons by choice, as in 1945, a growing number worry about their deployment by error

The Memorial Cenotaph at the Peace Memorial Park, with the Atomic Bomb Dome in the distance, in  Hiroshima, Japan.
THINKING ALOUD

Eighty years after Hiroshima, is the world any safer from nuclear war?

AS THE 80th anniversary of the nuclear strikes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki rolls around next month, it is worth asking how safe is the world from another nuclear war. The aftermath of the US strike on I...

Hundreds of people attend the funeral of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps commander and other military commanders killed during Israeli strikes on Iran.

This isn’t the Iranian regime change you’re looking for

Driven to paranoia by the level of Israeli intelligence penetration, a brutal domestic crackdown is underway

In a televised speech - his first appearance since a ceasefire in the war with Israel - supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei hailed what he described as Iran’s “victory” over Israel, vowed never to yield to US pressure and insisted Washington had been dealt a humiliating “slap”.

Iran says no plan for new US nuclear talks, plays down impact of strikes

[TEHRAN] Iran on Thursday denied it is set to resume nuclear talks with the United States after the end of a 12-day war with Israel, and accused Washington of exaggerating the impact of US strikes.