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A male Ukrainian military soldier with a quadcopter control panel with a joystick and a screen.

AI in war: Can advanced military technologies be tamed before it’s too late?

By Steven Feldstein | Disruptive Technologies

Retro illustration of a woman with technology contraption on her eyes

The disruptive technologies year in review

By Sara Goudarzi | Disruptive Technologies

The best multimedia stories of 2023

By Thomas Gaulkin, Erik English | Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies, Multimedia, Nuclear Risk, What We’re Reading

Video: Terrorists are using consumer drones—and it’s getting harder to stop them

By Erik English | Disruptive Technologies, Multimedia

AI and the future of warfare: The troubling evidence from the US military

By Paul Lushenko | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Risk, Technology and Security

An agricultural drone.

Why cheap drones pose a significant chemical terrorism threat

By Zachary Kallenborn | Biosecurity

The silhouette of a drone flying over the mountains line at sunset

Threat in the sky: How cheap drones are changing warfare

By Sara Goudarzi | Disruptive Technologies

How Hamas innovated with drones to operate like an army

By Kerry Chávez, Ori Swed | Disruptive Technologies

IAI Harop loitering munition

One way attack: How loitering munitions are shaping conflicts

By Dan Gettinger | Disruptive Technologies

The war in Ukraine shows the game-changing effects of drones depends on the game

By Dominika Kunertova | Disruptive Technologies

Drone boat

Why drone boats are an overhyped Achilles’ fleet

By Jonathan Panter, Johnathan Falcone | Disruptive Technologies

Then-US President Barack Obama and then-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev issue a joint statement announcing their pursuit of a New START treaty in London in April 2009. (White House photo by Pete Souza.)

Reviving arms control, post-Ukraine: Why New START still matters

By Stephen J. Cimbala, Lawrence J. Korb | Nuclear Weapons