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The US government’s comic approach to information warfare

By Thomas Gaulkin | Cyber Security, Disruptive Technologies

A ferret.

The grave risk of lab-created potentially pandemic pathogens

By Lynn C. Klotz | Biosecurity

Air quality surveillance and control: How to improve the response to all respiratory diseases, COVID-19 included

By Laura H. Kahn | Analysis, Biosecurity

September magazine: How to cut defense spending in a pandemic and climate change era.

By Bulletin Staff | Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Risk

B-2 Stealth bomber at air base in Iceland

Why President Biden needs to revisit—and reduce—his defense budget

By Lawrence J. Korb | Missile Defense, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, Technology and Security

Intelligence community investigation unable to reach consensus on the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic

By John Mecklin | Analysis, Biosecurity

A COVID-19 vaccination site.

Why the FDA should quickly authorize kids’ COVID-19 vaccines

By HyunJung Kim | Disruptive Technologies

Wuhan Institute of Virology

Inconclusive: Biden’s COVID-19 origins review hasn’t found a smoking gun

By Matt Field | Disruptive Technologies

trump blowing coronavirus dandelion covid pandemic

Rejecting survival: How Trumpist denials of the COVID catastrophe impede recovery and renewal

By Robert Jay Lifton | Analysis, Biosecurity

A health care worker prepares a COVID-19 vaccine.

Third time’s the charm? Vital questions about the White House’s COVID-19 vaccine plan

By Matt Field | Disruptive Technologies

White House press briefing on coronavirus

Reporting on science in today’s hyperpolitical environment

By Herbert Lin | Analysis, Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies

A bus carrying a team of experts from the World Health Organization departs an airport in Wuhan on Jan. 14, 2021, after arriving in the Chinese city to investigate the origins of the coronavirus pandemic. That investigation is widely seen as having been obstructed by Chinese authorities. (Photo by Kyodo News via Getty Images)

How COVID-19’s origins were obscured, by the East and the West

By Nicholas Wade | Analysis, Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies