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On October 11, 1986, US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev met in Reykjavik, where they confronted the threat of nuclear weapons and found common ground despite the Cold War.

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Lawrence Douglas is the James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence & Social Thought at ...

Michael Stein is chair and professor of Health Law, Policy, and Management at the Boston University School of Public Health. As a physician, his addictions research focuses on behavioral risk-taking ...

Timothy Callaghan is an associate professor of health policy and politics in the Department of Health Law, Policy, and ...

For most of the past three decades, one might almost have said the United Kingdom had a glowing record on nuclear non-proliferation: Britain was the only major nuclear power to operate a minimum ...

In 2024, dozens of prominent researchers wrote an article in Science that introduced the world to a dizzying concept: the existential perils of so-called “mirror-life,” a type of organism based on ...