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New information tool on nuclear weapons seeks to identify the next arms control strategies

By Andrew Facini | Nuclear Weapons
US Naval Postgraduate School students participate in analytic wargames they designed to explore solutions for some of Department of Defense's most pressing national security concerns.

Wargames and AI: A dangerous mix that needs ethical oversight

By Ivanka Barzashka | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

The stark choice facing climate conference: A livable climate or more oil and gas?

By David Spratt | Climate Change
Henry Kissinger.

Henry Kissinger supported wars and coups. He also played a little-known role in eliminating bioweapons

By Matt Field | Biosecurity
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How wealthy countries evade responsibility for their fossil fuel exports

By Bill McKibben | Climate Change, Opinion

AI and the future of warfare: The troubling evidence from the US military

By Paul Lushenko | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Risk, Technology and Security

Narrative warfare: How disinformation shapes the Israeli-Hamas conflict—and millions of minds

By Yusuf Can | Disruptive Technologies
A vaccine protest in 2021.

COVID vaccines went ‘on trial.’ Are routine childhood vaccine mandates at risk?

By James G. Hodge, Jr., Jennifer L. Piatt, Erica N. White, Leila F. Barraza | Biosecurity
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A new “all-hazards” approach for reducing multiple catastrophic threats

By Rumtin Sepasspour | Disruptive Technologies
An agricultural drone.

Why cheap drones pose a significant chemical terrorism threat

By Zachary Kallenborn | Biosecurity

Why North Korea may use nuclear weapons first, and why current US policy toward Pyongyang is unsustainable

By Robert E. Kelly | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons
US Naval Postgraduate School students participate in analytic wargames they designed to explore solutions for some of Department of Defense's most pressing national security concerns.

Wargames and AI: A dangerous mix that needs ethical oversight

By Ivanka Barzashka | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

Henry Kissinger.

Henry Kissinger supported wars and coups. He also played a little-known role in eliminating bioweapons

By Matt Field | Biosecurity

Narrative warfare: How disinformation shapes the Israeli-Hamas conflict—and millions of minds

By Yusuf Can | Disruptive Technologies

AI and the future of warfare: The troubling evidence from the US military

By Paul Lushenko | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Risk, Technology and Security

New information tool on nuclear weapons seeks to identify the next arms control strategies

By Andrew Facini | Nuclear Weapons

The stark choice facing climate conference: A livable climate or more oil and gas?

By David Spratt | Climate Change

trump liquified natural gas export terminal

How wealthy countries evade responsibility for their fossil fuel exports

By Bill McKibben | Climate Change, Opinion

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