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Pakistani physicist Pervez Hoodbhoy explores his country’s rocky relationship with nukes.

A quote from his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech

Egypt’s rising food prices have hit the headlines. Maria Golia steps back and looks at how the process of provision itself is undergoing headlong change.

Fossil Fools Day

Ma Jian has undertaken his most ambitious project yet; a sweeping panorama of China in the years before and after the Tiananmen Square massacre of 4 June 1989.

Climate negotiations

Steve Reich’s tribute to murdered journalist Daniel Pearl

Nanotechnology

A new collection of poems by one of Britain's most significant poets

David Ransom finds a likeness between the addictions of gambling and the speculative impulses of capitalism.

Anti-nuke action across the world

From the Manhattan Project and Hiroshima, to the Cold War, North Korea and beyond, nuclear fission has changed everything.

What are the West’s weapons actually for? asks Paul Rogers.

Activist Angie Zelter celebrates a year-long blockade of Britain’s weapons of mass destruction.

Wayward warheads, mid-air collisions and dangerous detonations.