June 18, 2025

AI’s 1930s moment Are we on the brink of disaster?

Tom Chivers

15.06

How far will Iran go? The Ayatollah is running out of road

Christopher de Bellaigue

05.05

Will India and Pakistan go to war? We assess the risk of a nuclear exchange

Swift Centre Forecasters

17.04

Can America tame Iran? The Islamic Republic has never been weaker

Christopher de Bellaigue

18.10

Gaza will change the future of war The Malmgren Ratio has been inverted

Harald Malmgren

17.10

Will Russia push the nuclear button? We assess the chances of a catastrophic escalation

Swift Centre Forecasters

15.09

Who will stop Putin from going nuclear? Heroic Cold-War fables hide an uncomfortable truth

Philip Cunliffe

20.01

America and Iran need each other Ever since the Hostage Crisis ended, the two countries have been waltzing out of step

David Patrikarakos

27.10

Fear Russian nukes, not cyberwarriors While the West obsesses over ineffectual meddling on Facebook, Putin is commissioning missiles

Mike Martin

06.08

The drawbacks of Japan’s cult of peace 75 years after the atomic bomb, it may be time for the nation to outgrow pacifism

Eri Hotta

07.11

Ban the bomb? The world’s moved on, Mr Gorbachev The former Soviet leader is decades out of date about the real threats to world peace

Mary Dejevsky

17.10

Why we must suppress technological progress

Peter Franklin