Russia

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

Campaign Renews Demand for Ban on 'Killer Robots,' Calls Out US Obstruction

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

Without a binding treaty requiring "meaningful human control over the use of force," say campaigners, lives could "be taken based on algorithms"

Study of Massive Smoke Cloud From 2017 Wildfires Offers Terrifying Hint of How Even Small Nuclear War Would Escalate Climate Crises

Eoin Higgins, staff writer

An enormous cloud of smoke from intense wildfires drifted over northern Canada on August 15, 2017. The image is a mosaic composed from several satellite overpasses because the affected area was so large.

Scientists warn a nuclear war could "cause climate change unprecedented in...

In Wake of Nuclear Treaty Collapse, Putin Says if US Pursues Previously Banned Missiles, Russia Will Also

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

Anti-nuclear weapons activists from Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament stage a die-in protest outside Westminster Abbey on May 3, 2019 in London.

"The collapse of the INF Treaty last Friday opens up a Pandora's Box of...

Fears of 'Nuclear Chaos and Potential Catastrophe' Rise After US Exits Landmark Cold War-Era Treaty With Russia

Progressives Say Kamala Harris Team 'Inventing Conspiracies' About Tulsi Gabbard Rather Than Addressing Critiques

US Eyeing Militarization of Antarctic as Well as Arctic

WATCH LIVE: Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller Testifies on Capitol Hill. Then Will Democrats Impeach Trump?

Satellite Images Ignite Alarm Over 'Unprecedented' Scale and Planet-Heating Emissions of Raging Arctic Wildfires

'Chernobyl on Ice': Nuclear Plant Barge Headed Across Arctic Circle

US Attacks Russia’s Power Grid; Trump Kept in Dark

Pompeo Cheers 'Opportunity' in Arctic From Climate Change as America Blocks Resolution Language

Pompeo, in Finland, Calls China Claims to Arctic 'Lawlessness'

House Democrats Ramp Up Probe of Trump's Finances With Deutsche Bank Subpoena

Rejecting Demand to Leave Venezuela, Russia's Lavrov Says 'Whole World Dotted' With US Soldiers

'Time to Act': Nationwide Protests Planned If Barr Fails to Release Full Mueller Report By Tonight

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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...