Since the AIxBio Horizon Scan Winter 2025-2026 published in March 2026, there has been steady, incremental progress across AI-enabled biological tools. Protein design tools have continued to improve, agentic coding tools have matured in ways that lower barriers to computational biology, and commercial AI companies are making significant investments in the life sciences.
The Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), Euro-Atlantic Security Leadership Group (EASLG), Asia-Pacific Leadership Network (APLN), and European Leadership Network (ELN) have worked since March 2020 to highlight the benefits of independent, internal “fail-safe” reviews in nuclear-armed states.
Venezuela's nuclear aspirations under the Hugo Chavez regime. (CNS)
The Roots of Russian Conduct and Occasional Essays on Contemporary Russian Issues are two series of essays by Robert E. Berls, Jr., Senior Advisor on Russia and Eurasia at the Nuclear Threat Initiative. Written for those interested in international relations and Russia specifically, the essays offer insights and information about a country that for many remains, as Winston Churchill famously said, “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.”
Brazil's motivation for brokering a new fuel swap deal with Iran amidst multilateral efforts to impose a new round of sanctions on Tehran. (CNS)
The 2026 NTI Nuclear Security Index proposes an agenda for a new era of leadership at a moment when the risk environment leaves no room for complacency.
Assessing implications of Catherine Ashton as the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy for nonproliferation policies. (CNS)
South Asian proliferation trends, linkages with other regions, and the impact of the Indo-US nuclear cooperation agreement. (CNS)
Outcome of the fifth Conference on Facilitating the Entry into Force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. (CNS)
CNS staff members discuss North Korea's second nuclear test in May 2009 and the reactions of major stakeholders in the international community. (CNS)
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