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What We're Reading
6 July 2017
Climate ChangeNuclear WeaponsSpecial Topics
Americas

Noam Chomsky: On Trump and the State of the Union

Dan Drollette Jr

The most important issues to address are the truly existential threats we face: climate change and nuclear war

What We're Reading
5 July 2017
Nuclear WeaponsSpecial Topics
Asia

North Korea's latest missile test

Dan Drollette Jr

A game-changer? Or more of the same?

Analysis
3 July 2017
Climate ChangeNuclear WeaponsSpecial Topics
Americas

On the first July 4 of the Trump era, a declaration

John Mecklin

Let facts be submitted to a candid world, that its citizens may hold Donald J. Trump to account, in the courts of public opinion and relentless satire, for the endangerment of humanity:

Voices of Tomorrow
21 June 2017
Nuclear WeaponsSpecial Topics

The ban treaty: A big nuclear-weapon-free zone?

Sebastian Brixey-Williams
AnalysisBook Review
19 June 2017
Special Topics
Americas

Trumping The Manchurian Candidate

Beverly Gray

Political pundits have been making many references lately to The Manchurian Candidate, but few seem to know the origins of the phrase.

What We're Reading
15 June 2017
Special Topics
Americas

The coming science caucus?

John Mecklin
Analysis
19 May 2017
Nuclear WeaponsSpecial Topics

The problem with suppressing controversy in the Non-Proliferation Treaty

Andrea Berger
Analysis
19 May 2017
Nuclear WeaponsSpecial Topics

The ban treaty must address the scientifically predicted consequences of nuclear war

Steven Starr

To date, there has been an unfortunate avoidance (among both diplomats and NGOs) of any explicit discussion of the effects of nuclear war; instead the language of the general conversation has tended to focus on the effects of a nuclear weapon, in the singular.

Opinion
16 May 2017
Nuclear WeaponsSpecial TopicsTechnology and Security
AmericasEurope/Russia

A failure in discretion: the meaning of the Trump leak to the Russians

Sharon Squassoni

One hopes that President Trump will not want to show off his “great” nuclear weapons as much as he wanted to share his “great intel.”

What We're Reading
10 May 2017
Special Topics
AmericasEurope/Russia

BBC: Did Trump fire Comey as part of a cover-up?

John Mecklin

If nothing else, President Donald Trump’s firing of FBI director James Comey amid an FBI investigation of the Trump administration’s ties to Russia has raised questions, at home and abroad, about the quality of US governance.

What We're Reading
5 May 2017
BiosecuritySpecial Topics
Americas

How the House health care bill undercuts bioterror and pandemic defenses

John Mecklin

The combination of disinvestment in public health and large reductions in the number of people with access to timely medical care could lead to pandemics that cause mass casualties and threaten social order

Analysis
26 April 2017
Nuclear WeaponsSpecial Topics
Asia

South Asia is not the most dangerous place on Earth

Ramamurti Rajaraman

While the nuclear situation between India and Pakistan is not good, it's been over-dramatized as near-inevitable here in the West, says a noted physicist from the region.

Analysis
25 April 2017
Special Topics

The next Nuclear Posture Review: Bring in State, Energy and allies

Anna Péczeli
Analysis
19 April 2017
Nuclear EnergySpecial Topics
Americas

Fusion reactors: Not what they’re cracked up to be

Daniel Jassby

Long touted as the “perfect” energy source, fusion reactors share many drawbacks with fission—and even add a few new ones of their own.

What We're Reading
14 April 2017
Nuclear WeaponsSpecial Topics
Americas

What you should know about North Korea and their nuclear weapons threats

Dan Drollette Jr

Teen Vogue may not be the first place one ordinarily thinks of when it comes to articles on topics like North Korea and its nuclear weapons. That is changing.

What We're Reading
6 April 2017
Special Topics
Americas

Passion, by design

Rachel Bronson

Renowned graphic designer Michael Bierut created much of the Bulletin’s current visual look and feel. He also created the near-perfect logo—the letter H with a horizontal arrow integrated and driving forward—for Hillary Clinton’s less-than-perfect 2016 presidential campaign. In a recent Design Observer piece, Bierut explains the equally surprising journey during which the Hillary 2016 logo went from panned to praised to past tense.

What We're Reading
22 March 2017
Special Topics
Americas

Is America's military big enough?

Dan Drollette Jr

One national security consultant called President Trump’s plans “a budget in search of a strategy.”

What We're Reading
21 March 2017
Special Topics
Americas

Killing science and culture doesn’t make the nation stronger

Dan Drollette Jr

Massive funding cuts in the president’s proposed budget could be more devastating than any threat posed by illegal immigrants.

Analysis
14 March 2017
Special TopicsTechnology and Security
AmericasAsiaEurope/Russia

A market-based approach to cyber defense: Buying zero-day vulnerabilities

Stephen M. Maurer

Today, private citizens often know more about cyber threats than governments—and will happily sell their zero-day vulnerabilities to the highest bidder. This opens the remarkable possibility that defenders may be able to “drain the swamp” by buying up cyber threats on the open market. 

What We're Reading
9 March 2017
Nuclear EnergySpecial Topics

Alert! Radioactive boars on two continents

Lucien Crowder

This little piggy went to the Fukushima exclusion zone.

4 March 2017
Americas

IARPA Director Jason Matheny advances tech tools for US espionage

Elisabeth Eaves

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, or IARPA, develops research and technology to serve the US intelligence community. In this interview, IARPA Director Jason Matheny explains how the 10-year-old agency does its work.

4 March 2017
Features

(Automated) planning for tomorrow: Will artificial intelligence get smarter?

Edward Moore Geist

Artificial-intelligence (AI) researchers have made very considerable advances in their theoretical knowledge of planning over the past few decades.

4 March 2017
Features

As technology goes democratic, nations lose military control

B. FitzGeraldJ. Parziale

For much of the 20th century, the most consequential technological breakthroughs were sponsored by government spending and were harnessed for military advantage.

4 March 2017
Features

Soft law: New tools for governing emerging technologies

G. E. MarchantB. R. Allenby

As governments around the world struggle to govern a multitude of emerging technologies, they often seek to harmonize their regulatory approaches.

4 March 2017
Features

The upside and downside of swarming drones

I. Lachow

The US and Chinese militaries are starting to test swarming drones – distributed collaborative systems made up of many small, cheap, unmanned aircraft. This new subset of independently operating or “autonomous” weapons is giving rise to new strategic, ethical, and legal questions.

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