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The author during his time as a firefighter

Climate change and the coronavirus are upending the way we fight wildfires

By Don Whittemore | Biosecurity, Climate Change, Opinion

A brain computer interface.

Neurotechnology overview: Why we need a treaty to regulate weapons controlled by … thinking

By Filippa Lentzos, Isobel Butorac | Disruptive Technologies

A central computer system monitors the heart rates of each patient in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) aboard the USNS Comfort, one of two hospital ships operated by Military Sealift Command. (US Navy photo)

How many intensive care beds will a nuclear weapon explosion require?

By Tom Sauer, Ramesh Thakur | Biosecurity, Nuclear Weapons

Epic fail: Why the US wasn’t prepared for the coronavirus pandemic

By Daniel M. Gerstein | Biosecurity

The departure hall of Terminal 7 at JFK airport on March 15 in New York City. Frustrated passengers complained of hours-long lines, crowded and unsanitary conditions and general disarray in the system for screening people for symptoms of the virus.(Photo by Johannes EISELE/AFP via Getty Images)

The Commissioned Corps was created to stop plagues at the US border. Why hasn’t it been used at airports during the pandemic?

By Laura H. Kahn | Biosecurity, Columnists

The Fairweather Mountains and Margerie Glacier at Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska

Heal the Earth: flatten other curves

By Dawn Stover | Biosecurity, Climate Change, Columnists

Protests rally against Ohio's anti-coronavirus measures.

The world has seen protests against epidemic lockdowns before. These are different

By Matt Field | Biosecurity

boris johnson covid-19 coronavirus nhs hospital pandemic

VIDEO: It’s a hoax (cough)—a highlight reel of pandemic pandering and political hubris

By Thomas Gaulkin, John Krzyzaniak | Biosecurity, Multimedia

Masked policemen are seen on the grounds of the Federal Supreme Court (Bundesgerichtshof) in Karlsruhe, southern Germany, after five Tajiks suspected to be members of an IS terror cell were arrested. (Photo by Thomas Lohnes/AFP via Getty Images.)

How to keep nuclear power plants operating safely during the coronavirus pandemic

By William Tobey, Simon Saradzhyan, Nickolas Roth | Cyber Security, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

The world teetering on a cliff

COVID-19 and the Doomsday Clock: Observations on managing global risk

By Bulletin Science and Security Board | Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies, Doomsday Clock, Nuclear Risk

Members of the 319th Missile Squadron

How nuclear forces worldwide are dealing with the coronavirus pandemic

By John Krzyzaniak | Biosecurity, Nuclear Weapons

2020 elections in South Korea

Interview: Duyeon Kim on South Korea’s elections in the midst of a coronavirus pandemic

By John Mecklin | Biosecurity, Interviews, Nuclear Weapons