A crash Defense Department program designed to deliver AI technologies to a combat theater within six months is a smashing success so far. But is the Pentagon ready for the enormous challenges that lie at the intersection of military power and artificial intelligence?

A recent congressional hearing tried to relive the fantasy that the US government could somehow manage to build a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain. It doesn’t have to.

Renowned graphic designer Michael Bierut created much of the Bulletin’s current visual look and feel. He also created the near-perfect logo—the letter H with a horizontal arrow integrated and driving forward—for Hillary Clinton’s less-than-perfect 2016 presidential campaign. In a recent Design Observer piece, Bierut explains the equally surprising journey during which the Hillary 2016 logo went from panned to praised to past tense.

Eerie premonitions of the Crimean crisis in the Bulletin's past coverage of Ukraine.

The Biden administration has announced plans to begin implementation of the updated form of the revised Lead and Copper Rule, which aims to protect Americans from lead contamination in water. Because the revised rule remains deeply flawed and dangerous to America’s children, the EPA should go back to the drawing board to drastically revamp it.

Great analysis and opinion from our regular contributors from the last year.

A woman’s son broke his leg and had an X-ray. Three weeks later, she was still so afraid of radiation that she would not hug him.

In a story that migrated off the New York Times’ home page far too quickly, David Sanger and William Broad asked a searingly important question that has yet to seize the world imagination: Can Saudi Arabian leaders be trusted with the means to create nuclear weapons?

A game-changer? Or more of the same?

The 2020 presidential candidate spells out a climate policy that pays serious attention to race, income, and class.

A year ago, a majority of the world’s countries—122 of them—voted to enact a treaty with the highly ambitious goal of abolishing nuclear weapons entirely. To the treaty’s critics, it wasn’t so much ambitious as foolish, counterproductive, or irrelevant. But proponents and critics alike can at least agree that it was unprecedented. While the community … Continued

The proposed nuclear weapon ban treaty might seem to have a lot in common with nuclear arms control. Both approaches, after all, acknowledge that nuclear weapons are dangerous. Both seek to reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the world. But the truth is that arms control and the ban treaty imbue nuclear weapons with … Continued

You can argue whether nuclear modernization plans are affordable or not. That may be missing the point.

Congress should not only question the price tag and poor track record of missile defense, but also whether it serves US interests at all.

Russia is not the only one responsible. The Obama administration appears to have seriously mishandled the issue.

The governance of stratospheric aerosol injection raises questions like who gets to control the world’s climate and how they would go about it.

Biden is doubling down on a bad idea that has flourished since the days of President George W. Bush. So why won’t he let this biofuel die already?