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Russia Fears US Under Trump Now Ready to Use Nuclear Weapons as 'Viable Political Option'

An unarmed Trident II D5 missile launches from the Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine USS Nebraska off the coast of California.

Record-Breaking Warm Weather Expected Around Globe As Human-Caused Climate Crisis Now As Powerful As El Niño's Effects, Says WMO

Julia Conley, staff writer

The world's top meteorological experts issued the warning as cities and countries around the world reported record-breaking warm winters.

'Today Marks a Countdown to Nuclear Chaos': Trump Urged to Extend Key Treaty With Russia

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

"The collapse of New START would be a global disaster—and can be avoided at the...

Edging World Closer to Nuclear War, Trump Deploys 'Low Yield'—More 'Usable'—Atomic Warhead on US Submarine

Julia Conley, staff writer

"An alarming development that heightens the risk of nuclear war."

Arms Expert Warns of 'Reckless and Unnecessary Escalation' After Pentagon Tests Missile Banned by INF Treaty That Trump Ditched

DOJ Inspector General Report Finds No Evidence of FBI Conspiracy Against President in Russia Investigation but Reveals 'Structural Problems' With FISA Court

A 'No-Brainer': Anti-Nuclear Movement Urges Trump to Accept Putin Offer to Renew START Treaty

House Impeachment Investigators Probing Whether Trump Lied to Mueller

To Avoid World War III, Gorbachev Says All 'Nuclear Weapons Must Be Destroyed'

Warnings DOJ Has Become 'Vehicle for Trump's Political Revenge' as Barr Opens Criminal Probe of Mueller Investigation

Jill Stein Challenges Hillary Clinton to Debate After 'Russian Asset' Smear

'This Is Truly Terrifying': Scientists Studying Underwater Permafrost Thaw Find Area of the Arctic Ocean 'Boiling With Methane Bubbles'

Critics Warn 'Deeply Chilling' Betrayal by Trump Paves Path for Turkish Slaughter of Kurdish Allies

Report Shows 'Stunning and Dramatic' Scenes of Thawing Permafrost in Siberia That 'Leaves Millions on Unstable Ground'

So-Called "Limited" Nuclear War Would Actually Be Very Bad and Kill Tens of Millions, Warns New Report

'Nuclear Weapons Arms Race Is Here': Russians, Anti-Nuke Experts Denounce US Missile Test

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Welcome to Sochi: Floorless Hotels, Dangerous Water, Missing Doorknobs, Stray Dogs Dead Or Alive, But Surveillance Cameras Show the Showers Work Fine

Never mind the homophobic laws, rampant corruption, drone surveillance, reported killing of stray dogs and $51 billion pricetag. The word out of Sochi from newly arrived journalists is alternately grim and hilarious, with tales of so many small disasters - random hacking, unsafe courses, half-finished hotels, rooms with dogs, light bulbs bartered for doorknobs, water too dangerous to put on your face and no visitors in sight - it kinda makes you wonder, once more, about the questionable...