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Columnists

What if North Korea were the only nuclear weapon state?

By Pavel Podvig | Columnists, Nuclear Weapons

Do U.S. biodefense efforts need systems analysis?

By Malcolm Dando | Biosecurity, Columnists

Stirring up “swine flu” hysteria

By Laura H. Kahn | Biosecurity, Columnists

Saudi Arabia’s big bet on innovation and education

By Kurt Zenz House | Columnists

Who’s in charge during the swine flu crisis?

By Laura H. Kahn | Columnists

Evaluating the Obama administration’s national security budget and planning process

By Gordon Adams | Columnists

Why Thomas Friedman is wrong about the National Ignition Facility

By Hugh Gusterson | Columnists, Fusion Energy, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons

Bioethicists enter the dual-use debate

By Malcolm Dando | Biosecurity, Columnists

Licensing life science researchers

By Laura H. Kahn | Biosecurity, Columnists

Reaction to the Obama-Medvedev joint statement on arms control

By Pavel Podvig | Columnists, Nuclear Weapons

The Washington Post’s distorted take on Yucca Mountain

By Hugh Gusterson | Columnists, Nuclear Energy

Biotechnology’s crossroads

By Malcolm Dando | Biosecurity, Columnists