Book Review

In recent years, scientists are experimentally growing in vitro meat in laboratories. (Photo by Spencer Weiner/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

The ick factor won’t stop alt meat, if Bruce Friedrich has anything to say about it

By Rachel Bronson | Analysis, Biosecurity, Book Review, Climate Change

Illia Ponomarenko, former defense reporter for the Kyiv Independent.

Ukrainian journalist Illia Ponomarenko on the horror and absurdity of Russia’s senseless, existential war

By Susan D’Agostino | Analysis, Book Review, Nuclear Risk

The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain. Written and illustrated by Eugene Yelchin. 208 pages. Candlewick Press. Ages 10 and up.

The Genius Under the Table: A poignant children’s book set in the Cold War

By Susan D’Agostino | Book Review, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, What We’re Reading

Russian Orthodox cross superimposed over missile

Blessing the holy ICBMs: The Russian Orthodox Church and Putin

By Robert E. Berls Jr. | Book Review, Nuclear Weapons

Trumping The Manchurian Candidate. Again.

By Beverly Gray | Analysis, Book Review, Special Topics

The dread and the awe: Crispr’s inventor assesses her creation

By Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley, Saskia Popescu | Biosecurity, Book Review, Disruptive Technologies, Technology and Security

No end of a lesson on the “big stick”

By Derek Leebaert | Book Review, Nuclear Weapons

Is artificial intelligence really an existential threat to humanity?

By Edward Moore Geist | Analysis, Book Review, Nuclear Weapons, Special Topics, Technology and Security

The continuing relevance of “On the Beach”

By Beverly Gray | Analysis, Book Review, Nuclear Weapons, Special Topics

Small groups, dangerous technology: Can they be controlled?

By Andrew Snyder-Beattie | Biosecurity, Book Review, Special Topics, Technology and Security

How the IAEA went from lapdog to watchdog in Iraq

By Jacques E. C. Hymans | Biosecurity, Book Review, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons

Five assessments of the Fukushima disaster

By Charles Perrow | Book Review, Nuclear Energy, Technology and Security