The authoritative guide to ensuring science and technology make life on Earth better, not worse.
By Bulletin Staff | November 5, 2018
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The extraordinarily fast-paced advance across the world’s scientific and technological enterprise constitutes a defining characteristic of the 21st century. In this issue of the Bulletin, leading experts explore how these quickly-changing technologies increasingly intersect with one another and, as they do, pose new types of global threats.
SPECIAL ISSUE: Existential nexus: The intersection of technological threats
Introduction: The new threat matrix
John Mecklin
Free-access
Artificial Intelligence, cyberattack, and nuclear weapons—a dangerous combination
Pavel Sharikov
The global responsibility to prepare for intersecting climate and nuclear risks
Christine Parthemore, Francesco Femia, and Caitlin Werrell
Designer warriors: Altering conflict—and humanity itself?
Brad Allenby
How swarming will change warfare
Paul Scharre
What’s cooking for climate change? Techno-fixing dinner for 10 billion.
Pat Mooney
Other features
Holding fossil fuel companies accountable for their contribution to climate change: Where does the law stand?
Michael Burger and Jessica Wentz
Free-access
Interview
Ambassador Bonnie Jenkins: reducing threats, increasing diversity
Dawn Stover
Nuclear Notebook
Indian nuclear forces, 2018
Hans M. Kristensen and Matt Korda
Free-access
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