At doom’s doorstep: It is 100 seconds to midnight

Disruptive Technologies

An ASAT launch.

Anti-satellite weapons are creating space hazards. Here’s a way to limit the damage

By Aaron Bateman | Disruptive Technologies

Special issue: Conflict in space

By Bulletin Staff | Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Risk

satellite mapping an asteroid

Cis-lunar space and the security dilemma

By Michael Byers, Aaron Boley | Disruptive Technologies

color-enhance image from space

The complicating role of the private sector in space

By Victoria Samson | Disruptive Technologies

US Space Force insignia

Space Force: Fact or fiction?

By Kaitlyn Johnson | Disruptive Technologies

images illustrating war in space

A China-US war in space: The after-action report

By Henry Sokolski | Disruptive Technologies

view of Earth from space on shortest day of year

Why the final frontier should not become the final battleground

By John Mecklin | Disruptive Technologies

artist's conception of moon base

Interview: Rob Latiff on the worsening international security situation in space

By John Mecklin | Disruptive Technologies, Technology and Security

satellite image of area near N Korea nuke research plant

Machine learning improves satellite imagery analysis of North Korean nuclear activity

By Sulgiye Park, Allison Puccioni, Rodney C. Ewing | Technology and Security

“Bosom peril” is not “breast cancer”: How weird computer-generated phrases help researchers find scientific publishing fraud

By Guillaume Cabanac, Cyril Labbé, Alexander Magazinov | Disruptive Technologies

DeepMind’s David Silver speaks to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists about games, beauty, and AI’s potential to avert human-made disasters. Photo provided by David Silver and used with permission.

DeepMind’s David Silver on games, beauty, and AI’s potential to avert human-made disasters

By Susan D’Agostino | Artificial Intelligence, Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies, Interviews, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

A gallows set up outside the US Capitol.

After January 6, a new breed of extremism emerges: The mainstream insurrectionist

By Matt Field | Disruptive Technologies