by Petya Mihova | Apr 6, 2022 | Nuclear Policy and Security, Nuclear Threats and Security
Allusions to the use of nuclear weapons at the very beginning of the war in Ukraine worried people in Eastern Europe. People like my grandmother in Bulgaria who still remembers what happened at Chernobyl. Is it really possible for the situation to escalate in this...
by Saara Koho | Oct 6, 2019 | Nuclear Policy and Security, Nuclear Threats and Security, Personal Reflections, Politics
I grew up in a border town in Finland. The nearest Russian town, Svetogorsk, was only a few miles away from my home. Living so near to a gigantic and powerful neighbor was often unsettling. St. Petersburg was closer to us than our own capital Helsinki. Could the...
by Martin Kibaba | Sep 12, 2019 | Nuclear Policy and Security, Nuclear Threats and Security
Abolishing nuclear weapons may seem like an idealistic, even utopian objective. But so too did banning land mines. And chemical and biological weapons. These were banned by the Chemical Weapons Convention in 1997 after they proved to be barbaric and treated as illegal...
by Joana Azevedo Viana | Oct 9, 2018 | Journalism in the Trump Era, Nuclear Threats and Security, WPI Activities
When it comes to nuclear policies and politics, President Donald Trump is viewed as an elephant in a china shop — at least by the majority of the experts who study this topic and who worry about the high risks of an atomic face-off between the world’s nuclear powers,...
by Jenny Jannari | Sep 9, 2018 | Homeland Security/Terrorism, Nuclear Policy and Security, Nuclear Threats and Security, Personal Reflections, Politics
When I was a child in the 1980s, we had these books called “My Friends” where your friends would write things about themselves: their favorite food, their dreameds, what they wanted to do as adults, etc. The book included a question about your worst fear. It seemed...
by Joana Azevedo Viana | Sep 4, 2018 | Global Business, Journalism in the Trump Era, Nuclear Threats and Security, Personal Reflections, WPI Activities
It’s easy to dismiss Donald Trump’s supporters as a bunch of far-right anti-immigration ultra conservatives, but reality – like history – is in no way written in a straight line. Traveling through Minnesota helps paint a more complex picture of who supports the...