Disruptive Technologies

Interactive: The Doomsday Dashboard

By | Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies, Doomsday Clock, Multimedia, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

David Sanger on the perfect weapon

By Elisabeth Eaves | Cyber Security, Disruptive Technologies, Interviews, Technology and Security

Jennifer Exelby leads a team of chemical-agent handlers at the US Army’s Edgewood Chemical Biological Center. Photo Credit: US Army

A wearable to detect chemical weapons

By Elisabeth Eaves | Biosecurity, Chemical Weapons, What We’re Reading

A transmission electron micrograph of multiple bacteriophages attached to a bacterial cell wall, shown at a magnification of approximately 200,000. Photo credit: Graham Beards

Bacteriophages: a promising approach to fighting antibiotic-resistant bacteria

By Laura H. Kahn | Biosecurity, Columnists

An aphid, on a leaf.

Insect Allies to the rescue?

By John Mecklin | Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies, Synthetic biology, What We’re Reading

Building the tools to fight botnets

By Elisabeth Eaves | Cyber Security, Disruptive Technologies, What We’re Reading

Ground beef

But will they eat it?

By Elisabeth Eaves | Biosecurity, Climate Change, Synthetic biology, What We’re Reading

Artificial Stupidity

By Thomas Gaulkin | Artificial Intelligence, Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies, What We’re Reading

Doves against blue sky

Facing the central questions of nuclear disarmament

By Aaron Miles | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Risk

Secretary of State John Kerry speaks at the newly re-opened US Embassy in Havana in August, 2015. The embassy was largely shuttered following a mysterious attack on US diplomats in 2016.

Microwave weapons may have caused diplomats’ mystery symptoms

By Elisabeth Eaves | Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies, What We’re Reading

President Donald Trump poses with service members after signing the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 during a visit to Fort Drum, New York, on August 13, 2018.

Protectionist export controls could be bad for nonproliferation

By Kenshin Cho | Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Technology and Security, Voices of Tomorrow

Ventilator blues: Infectious disease expert Tom Inglesby on the next major pandemic

By | Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies