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A US Marine launches a lethal miniature aerial missile system during an exercise at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif. on Sept. 2, 2020. Credit: Jennessa Davey, US Marine Corps.

Phoenix Ghosts are part drones, part missiles. How does that change combat?

By Dan Gettinger | Disruptive Technologies, Technology and Security

A counter-drone system

A cascading catastrophe: The drone threat to critical infrastructure

By Zachary Kallenborn | Disruptive Technologies

Sea nettle jellyfish swimming at Monterey Bay Aquarium in Monterey, CA. Credit: Photollama. Accessed via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0.

Jellyfish attack nuclear power plant. Again.

By Susan D’Agostino | Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

A promotional video about autonomous weaponized drone.

Was a flying killer robot used in Libya? Quite possibly

By Zachary Kallenborn | Analysis

Drones add little to rocket-filled Israel-Palestine skies, but represent growing global threat

By Thomas Gaulkin | Disruptive Technologies, Technology and Security

An MQ-9 Reaper flies a combat mission over southern Afghanistan. (Photo credit: US Air Force / Lt. Col. Leslie Pratt)

The Abraham Accords effect: more armed drones in the Middle East

By Ali Arfa | Disruptive Technologies, Opinion, Voices of Tomorrow

Perdix drone swarm test.

Meet the future weapon of mass destruction, the drone swarm

By Zachary Kallenborn | Disruptive Technologies

An An-2.

The next frontier in drone warfare? A Soviet-era crop duster

By Benjamin Fogel, Andro Mathewson | Disruptive Technologies

Perdix drone demonstration.

Drone swarms: coming (sometime) to a war near you. Just not today.

By Maaike Verbruggen | Analysis

An autonomous ship.

How Joe Biden can use confidence-building measures for military uses of AI

By Michael C. Horowitz, Lauren Kahn | Disruptive Technologies

MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle

We need a new international accord to control drone proliferation

By Agnes Callamard, James Rogers | Disruptive Technologies, Opinion

Drone pandemic: Will coronavirus invite the world to meet Big Brother?

By Thomas Gaulkin | Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies