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Kathryn Bigelow’s Warning to America

October 16, 2025

A film photo of a nuclear explosion.

‘Society Neglects the Nuclear Threat at Its Peril’

October 2025 Issue

the cover of the August 2025 Atlantic with photo of nuclear explosion

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Pete Hegseth Doesn’t Want to Talk About Golden Dome

August 8, 2025

Photograph of Trump and other officials with a sign for the Golden Dome in the White House

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The One Place Where Nuclear War Isn’t Abstract

July 10, 2025

A photo of the nuclear bomb and the aftermath in Hiroshima

What a Nuclear Explosion Looks Like

August 2025 Issue

Black-and-white photo of a pitch-black night sky with brilliant white glowing nuclear cloud in distance at center.

Damn You All to Hell!

August 2025 Issue

photo collage of black-and-white images from movies with nuclear mushroom cloud, missiles firing, maps, and mustard-yellow accents

National Security

The Nuclear Club Might Soon Double

August 2025 Issue

Black-and-white illustration of a globe that has three red dots on its upper-right side, surrounded by seven concentric circles of missiles in orbit.

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The Big Story: Nuclear War and the Future of National Security

July 8, 2025

a red background with white text that says The Big Story: Nuclear War and the Future of National Security. Missy Ryan, Ross Andersen, and Tom Nichols join Jeffrey Goldberg

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Trump’s Trouble With Tulsi

David A. Graham

June 18, 2025

Tulsi Gabbard looks to the side at Donald Trump

Apocalypse, Constantly

February 2025 Issue

collage illustration with images from disaster movies including Planet of the Apes, Don't Look Up, and Dr. Strangelove, along with smokestack billowing smoke, comet entering atmosphere, nuclear warhead

On Top of Everything Else, Nuclear War Would Be a Climate Problem

March 9, 2022

View of a cloud plume after the nuclear detonation codenamed Mike, Enewetak, Marshall Islands, November 1, 1952. The detonation, the first of two in 'Operation Ivy,' was also the first successful hydrogen bomb.

‘I Thought My Last Hour Had Come...’

Robert Guillain

August 1980 Issue