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Question for the candidates: What is your plan to prevent the next dangerous and expensive nuclear arms race?

By Laura Grego | Nuclear Weapons

Question for the candidates: What will you do to avoid a nuclear arms race with Russia and China?

By Steven Pifer | Nuclear Weapons

A US F-35A combat aircraft tests an unarmed B61-12 bomb in the Nevada Desert. Source: Sandia National Laboratory

Why the Biden administration’s new nuclear gravity bomb is tragic

By Stephen Young | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

President Biden and VP Harris meeting with business leaders to discuss AI safety

How politics and business are driving the AI arms race with China

By Will Henshall | Artificial Intelligence, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, Voices of Tomorrow

Why policy makers should beware claims of new ‘arms races’

By Haydn Belfield, Christian Ruhl | Artificial Intelligence, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, Voices of Tomorrow

President Biden and Vice President Harris with US Armed Forces generals. Credit: The White House via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.

How the Biden administration can secure real gains in nuclear arms control

By Sharon Squassoni | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

photographer at British nuke test site in Australia

1958: Only world government can prevent the war nobody can win

By Bertrand Russell | Nuclear Weapons

Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev

The Trump administration thinks it can win an arms race. Time for a history lesson.

By David Cortright | Nuclear Weapons

Illustration depicting a hypersonic missile

Hypersonic missiles: Why the new “arms race” is going nowhere fast

By Andrew W. Reddie | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Weapons

Google CEO Sundar Pichai.

Information overload: The promise and risk of quantum computing

By Lindsay Rand, Berit Goodge | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies

The frame problem: The AI “arms race” isn’t one

By Heather M. Roff | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

Credit: Matt Field. Based in part on photo by Morio CC SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.

China is rapidly developing its military AI capabilities

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