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Nina Pham is discharged from the hospital.

Outbreaks of lethal diseases like Ebola and the Wuhan coronavirus happen regularly. The US government just cut funding for the hospitals that deal with them

By Saskia Popescu | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies

Memo to Mr. Trump: This nuclear treaty with Russia will make you a winner!

By John Krzyzaniak | Analysis, 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

US Advanced Hypersonic Weapon test

Hypersonic missiles: Three questions every reader should ask

By Ivan Oelrich | Analysis, Nuclear Risk

Putin, a radio, and the Twitter logo against a nuclear-symbol background.

Fake news of a Chinese nuclear explosion got Russian attention

By Matt Field | Disruptive Technologies

A naval exercise in the South China Sea.

A nuclear detonation in the South China Sea? No, more Twitter conspiracy nonsense

By Matt Field | Disruptive Technologies

China's DF-31 ICBM

Trilateral arms control initiative: A Chinese perspective

By Wu Riqiang | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

A recent protest in Hong Kong. Credit: Studio Incendo via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-2.0.

Hong Kongers rage against smart lampposts, Chinese surveillance

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

A Chinese intercontinental ballistic missile at a 2015 military parade in Beijing. China may be a source for other governments wishing to buy missiles. (Photo credit: Voice of America via Wikimedia Commons.)

Chinese nuclear forces, 2019

By Hans M. Kristensen, Matt Korda | Nuclear Notebook, Nuclear Weapons

A screenshot taken from The Good Fight on CBS All Access. Credit: CBS All Access.

An episode of The Good Fight illustrates the clout of China’s censors

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

The Trump administration and the art of talking about climate change without using the term

By Matt Field | Climate Change, What We’re Reading

China: Determined to dominate cyberspace and AI

By Chris C. Demchak | 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

A Huawei executive is at the center of a diplomatic firestorm after being arrested in Canada. Credit: Brücke-Osteuropa via Wikimedia Commons.

Unlike Trump, US lawmakers aren’t going easy on Chinese telecoms

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

Tiananmen Square.

Censorship 101: China’s young censors first have to learn about forbidden topics 

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

A weapon on display. Credit: Max Smith via Wikimedia Commons.

What the United States can do to stabilize its nuclear relationship with China

By Tong Zhao | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

A Chinese DF-26 intermediate range missile and launcher.

We don’t have a missile gap in Asia. We have a diplomacy gap.

By Alexandra Bell | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, The INF Treaty and the Future of Arms Control

The world's first AP1000 reactor, at the Sanmen nuclear power plant in China.

The future of nuclear energy depends on China

By Dawn Stover | Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, What We’re Reading

Time for a nuclear pause agreement?

By Adam M. Scheinman | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Launch of a missile defense interceptor from Vandenburg Air Force Base in California.

US Ground-based midcourse missile defense: Expensive and unreliable

By Laura Grego | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons