The Equation

A neon light installation by artist Alicia Eggert in the Smithsonian Institute reads in hot pink lettering: this present moment used to be the unimaginable future.

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January 15, 2026

The Future Is Not Written. It Is Ours to Create.

After one year of President Trump’s second term, let’s challenge ourselves to imagine and bring to life a much, much better future.

Gretchen Goldman
President and CEO of UCS

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One Year of the Trump Administration’s All-Out Assault on Climate and Clean Energy

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

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Divide and Destroy: A New Year of the Trump Administration’s Authoritarianism

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Sunday Update on Fukushima Reactors

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Nuclear Crisis at Fukushima

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March 9, 2011

The Future of the W-78 Warhead: More or Less the W-87

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