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Analysis

The very small Islamic State WMD threat

By Dina Esfandiary, Matthew Cottee | Analysis, Biosecurity, Special Topics, Technology and Security

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Ahmet Uzumcu: Getting rid of chemical weapons in Syria and beyond

By Elisabeth Eaves | Analysis, Biosecurity, Special Topics, Technology and Security

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Poems of the Manhattan Project

By Bulletin Staff | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons

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Environmental disaster, revisited

By Dan Drollette Jr | Analysis, Special Topics

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The myths (and realities) of synthetic bioweapons

By Filippa Lentzos, Catherine Jefferson, Claire Marris | Analysis, Biosecurity, Technology and Security

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Blinding them with science: Is development of a banned laser weapon continuing?

By Dan Drollette Jr | Analysis, Special Topics, Technology and Security

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Bringing law to the sea: safeguarding the naval nuclear fuel cycle

By Sébastien Philippe | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons

Cyberwarfare ethics, or how Facebook could accidentally make its engineers into targets

By Adam Henschke, Patrick Lin | Analysis, Special Topics, Technology and Security

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From fission to fusion: the need for a quick transition

By Jason Parisi | Analysis, Climate Change, Fusion Energy, Nuclear Energy

Don’t fear the robot car bomb

By Patrick Lin | Analysis, Special Topics, Technology and Security

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Making viruses in the lab deadlier and more able to spread: an accident waiting to happen

By Tatyana Novossiolova, Malcolm Dando | Analysis, Biosecurity, Special Topics

The scientist and the nuclear smuggler: unexpected connection

By Egle Murauskaite | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons, Technology and Security