After years working for big institutions, one nuclear engineer asks: How do we change our thinking about what is power, what is the future, and how those relate?

N Square’s sixth cohort of innovation fellows imagined what a world in 2095 without nuclear weapons might look like.

Two leaders of the Black Speculative Arts Movement talk about their new collaboration with N Square—and what Afrofuturism brings to the task of envisioning a nuclear threat-free future.

A new cohort of NSIN fellows is designing breakthrough solutions to several field-wide challenges.

Financial research analyst and N Square fellow David Epstein has a message for sustainable investors: the risk they’re not talking about might be the biggest of all.

The only way to boost public engagement on nuclear issues, says filmmaker Ryan Beickert, is to unleash the power of story.

The pandemic highlights new and urgent opportunity to hone critical skills for managing uncertainty and anticipating the future.

The MacArthur Foundation’s Emma Belcher went from studying nuclear weapons policy to backing innovative ideas for improving it—and she wants other funders to join the quest.

A new show conceived by N Square fellows offers a tipsy take on sobering nuclear threats.

Nuclear Threat Professionals Reimagine Their Field

We’re expanding our presence to DC, bringing collaboration and shared learning to the heart of the nuclear nonproliferation community.

ICAN nabbed the Nobel in 2017 for its work to establish a global nuclear weapons ban treaty. But executive director Beatrice Fihn has her eye on a bigger prize—making nuclear weapons impossible.

Meet the N Square Fellows—a vibrant cross-sector group of technologists, game designers, policy experts, diplomats, Hollywood filmmakers, and more who are tackling nuclear challenges together in new ways.

An iconoclast powered by big ideas turns his gaze toward nuclear threats.

In the nuclear security field, the most dominant voices should not be mistaken for the most legitimate.

The Skoll Foundation’s director of policy and global security argues for a new philanthropic approach to supporting innovation in the nuclear arena.

Ploughshares Fund’s Michelle Dover talks about the role of civil society—and unexpected new voices—in reducing nuclear threat.

A novel partnership between policy experts, game designers, and public radio yields a high-stakes simulation that lets users decide: nuclear attack, or false alarm?

How One Earth Future Foundation, and its Future Labs leader Jon Bellish, are betting on networked coordination and open data as the keys to preventing nuclear war.

Pioneering peace and security funder Carl Robichaud talks about the risks and rewards of finding (and funding) new ways to tackle existential threats.