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Perdix drone demonstration.

Drone swarms: coming (sometime) to a war near you. Just not today.

By Maaike Verbruggen | Analysis

Politics, race, and religion: Pandemic misinformation courses through the Southeast Asian internet

By Jan Oledan, Nicola Bariletto, Saiful Salihudin, Mehulika Sitepu, Jacob N. Shapiro | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies

A clean return to the Iran nuclear deal should be Biden’s first option

By Eric Brewer | Analysis, Nuclear Risk

An expert proposal: How to limit presidential authority to order the use of nuclear weapons

By Lisbeth Gronlund, David Wright, Steve Fetter | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

Trump supporters swarm the US Capitol.

Amid a transfer of power, Trump supporters break into Capitol

By Matt Field | Analysis

bright red-and-white plane on Antarctic ice

Bulletin’s best climate change coverage of 2020

By Dan Drollette Jr | Analysis, Climate Change

The edge of our existence: A particle physicist examines the architecture of society

By Yangyang Cheng | Analysis, Personal Essay

ICBM test launch

Revenge is a dish best served nuclear. US deterrence depends on it.

By Peter K. Hatemi, Rose McDermott | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

The funeral procession for Mohsen Fakhrizadeh

Four ways the killing of Iran’s nuclear scientist will undercut US national security

By John Krzyzaniak | Analysis, Nuclear Risk

Mask wearers in India

Old hatreds fuel online misinformation about COVID-19 in South Asia

By Kamya Yadav, Isra Thange, Julia Ilhardt, Samikshya Siwakoti, Jacob N. Shapiro | Analysis

Congress now has 6 Native Americans—a record. What’s their stance on climate change?

By Angely Mercado, Naveena Sadasivam | Analysis, Climate Change

South Korean submarine

South Korea’s risky quest to build nuclear-powered attack submarines

By Seoc Woo Kim, Jungmin Kang, Frank von Hippel | Analysis, Nuclear Risk