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Russian air defense systems. Credit: Vitaly V. Kuzmin CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

The international significance of Russian aerospace defenses

By Ivanka Barzashka | Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Risk

A black biohazard symbol against a yellow and black smoke-like background.

A highly hackable US biodefense system

By Elisabeth Eaves | Biosecurity, What We’re Reading

Russian President Vladimir Putin meeting with US President Donald Trump on the sidelines of a G20 meeting in Hamburg on July 7, 2017. Credit: Kremlin Presidential Executive Office

A “media mirage”: Russia deployed sophisticated marketing tactics to help Trump win

By Matt Field | Cyber Security, Disruptive Technologies, What We’re Reading

An orange and white conical craft in outer space.

Washington sparks a space spat at the United Nations

By Paul Meyer | Disruptive Technologies, Opinion

Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Credit: © World Economic Forum / Manuel Lopez CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Google’s day of reckoning

By Matt Field | Disruptive Technologies, What We’re Reading

Google's reputation for being a force for good is being challenged. Check out the Bulletin's video to learn why.

Project Dragonfly: Google climbs the Great Firewall

By | Disruptive Technologies, Multimedia

Artificial intelligence: a detailed explainer, with a human point of view

By Milton Hoenig | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

Research on smallpox continues today. Photo credit: Centers for Disease Control

Synthetic biology: A call for a new culture of responsibility

By Ali Nouri, Shahram Seyedin-Noor | Opinion, Synthetic biology

How to save the planet from your couch

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

The Syrian city of Aleppo depicted in the midst of a still ongoing civil war. Credit: British Foreign and Commonwealth Office / Basma CC BY-ND 2.0

Terrorists sometimes use chemical weapons, but the OPCW should focus on states

By Al Mauroni | Analysis, Chemical Weapons, Disruptive Technologies

An MQ-9 Reaper flies a combat mission over southern Afghanistan. (Photo credit: US Air Force / Lt. Col. Leslie Pratt)

A way to rein in drone proliferation

By Perry World House | Columnists, Technology and Security

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Chinese twins are allegedly the first “genetically edited” babies

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