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A literary history of our fascination with apocalypse and armageddon suggests that predictions of doomsday have always been ...

Let us be clear: we are soon entering the Arctic Century, and its most defining feature will be Greenland’s meteoric rise, ...

One of the most competitive, watched and costly congressional elections last November was right here in central New York, in ...

The militarization of international politics leads to hostility instead of more peace between societies. By Michael Müller, ...

The vibe at this year’s MLK Day keynote was the “fierce urgency of now,” as keynote speaker Erica Chenoweth and Bates President Garry W. Jenkins each reflected on the challenges and imperatives of ...

In this 11th installment of several articles covering his life and accomplishments, we see his role in establishing governance, schools, medical facilities and other amenities as Oak Ridge is built ...

On Gandhi’s death anniversary, the question is not how much of the Mahatma is good for us but how much of him we can take ...

These elements of the study of global politics include theoretical frameworks and historical trajectories, without which no ... nuclear age. Our interest is twofold: the science and technology as well ...

So, did Israel “win” the war that began after October 7? In the short term, it’s hard to say no. Even if Hamas has not been ...

The B61 bomb’s reported yield will be adjustable to between 0.3 and 50 kilotons. A kiloton is the equivalent of 1,000 tons of TNT. Although not possessing the long-distance standoff capacity of either ...

Seventy-eight years ago, scientists created a unique sort of timepiece — named the Doomsday Clock — as a symbolic ...