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Interviews

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Why a newly passed House “terrorism financing” bill could threaten nonprofits and free speech

By Sara Goudarzi | Disruptive Technologies, Interviews

Members of Israel's Home Front Command and police forces inspect a crater left by an exploded projectile at a heavily-damaged school building in Israel's southern city of Gedera on October 1, 2024, after Iran launched a barrage of missiles at Israel in response to the killings of Lebanese Hezbollah leader Nasrallah and other Iran-backed militants. Reports said Iran fired between 150 and 200 missiles in the attack, the country's second on Israel after a missile and drone attack in April in response to a deadly Israeli air strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus. (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images)

Carnegie nuclear expert James Acton explains why it would be counterproductive for Israel to attack Iran’s nuclear program

By John Mecklin | Interviews, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Interview: Rose Gottemoeller on the precarious future of arms control

By Laurel Baker | Interviews, Nuclear Weapons, Voices of Tomorrow

Photo credit Hilary Jones

An interview with Annie Jacobsen, author of ‘Nuclear War: A Scenario’

By Michael Mechanic | Interviews, Nuclear Weapons

Yoshua Bengio, founder and scientific director of Mila at the Quebec AI Institute, during a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law hearing in July. The hearing was titled "Oversight of A.I.: Principles for Regulation." Photo credit: Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg via Getty Images

‘AI Godfather’ Yoshua Bengio: We need a humanity defense organization

By Susan D’Agostino | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Interviews

Oppenheimer security badge photo at Los Alamos

“He did not speak the ordinary language”: Memories of Oppie, from a Manhattan Project physicist

By Dan Drollette Jr | Interviews, Nuclear Weapons, Special Topics

Oppie—“A very mysterious and delphic character.” Interview with Kai Bird, co-author of American Prometheus

By Dan Drollette Jr | Interviews, Nuclear Weapons

Oppenheimer movie scene

An extended interview with Christopher Nolan, director of Oppenheimer

By John Mecklin | Interviews, Nuclear Weapons

Sue Solomon in Antarctica with penguins

Interview with Susan Solomon: The healing of the ozone hole, and what else we can learn from atmospheric near-misses

By Dan Drollette Jr | Climate Change, Interviews

one-woman protest outside old KGB headquarters, Moscow

“When it comes to Russia, it’s like living in a volcano” — Interview with Farida Rustamova, an independent reporter in Putin’s Russia

By Dan Drollette Jr | Interviews

binoculars with exaggerated eyeballs in place of lenses

Smart devices, cell phone cameras, social shaming. and the loss of the right to a private self: Interview with Michel Paradis

By Dan Drollette Jr | Disruptive Technologies, Interviews

Theater writer Chris Thorpe

Interview: Chris Thorpe aims to give theatergoers an “emotional explosion” over nuclear weapons

By Louis Reitmann | Interviews, Nuclear Weapons