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Joe Biden

The new Woodward and Costa book shows why no president should have “sole authority” to start a nuclear war

By Jessica Sleight | Nuclear Risk

Biden gives a specch.

Pandemic world: Biden stops being polite and starts getting real with the unvaccinated

By Matt Field | Biosecurity

Intelligence community investigation unable to reach consensus on the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic

By John Mecklin | Analysis, Biosecurity

Wuhan Institute of Virology

Inconclusive: Biden’s COVID-19 origins review hasn’t found a smoking gun

By Matt Field | Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies

Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Zhao LIjian.

After the lab-leak theory, US-Chinese relations head downhill

By Yanzhong Huang | Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies

The A1 Haiku: Leaning into the wind

By Thomas Gaulkin | Climate Change

President Biden delivers remarks to the virtual Munich Security Conference. Photo by Anna Moneymaker-Pool/Getty Images

Foreign commercial banks: The essential partner in future discussions of the Iran nuclear deal

By Christopher A. Bidwell | Nuclear Weapons

Biden speaks.

Biden should focus on science communication as his administration seeks to tame the pandemic

By Matt Field | Disruptive Technologies, Opinion

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey testifies before Congress about social media regulation.

Dear President Biden: You should save, not revoke, Section 230

By Eric Goldman | Disruptive Technologies

How can the Biden administration reduce scientific disinformation? Slow the high-pressure pace of scientific publishing

By Matt Field | Disruptive Technologies

USS Tennessee submarine

Biden should rethink US policy on low-yield nuclear weapons

By David N. Zikusoka | Nuclear Weapons

Introduction: Advice for a new administration facing difficult times

By John Mecklin | Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Risk