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national guard members carry bottle water after hurricane sandy

‘We’re not going fast enough’: Sherri Goodman on climate change as security threat

By Jessica McKenzie | Climate Change

Who needs a government ban? TikTok users are already defending themselves

By Hali Mecklin | Cyber Security, Disruptive Technologies, Voices of Tomorrow

To make AI work for national security, invest in humans too

By Julie George | Artificial Intelligence, Opinion, Voices of Tomorrow

US Space Force insignia

Space Force: Fact or fiction?

By Kaitlyn Johnson | Disruptive Technologies

Carrying whatever possessions they can, women arrive in a steady trickle at a camp for Internally Displaced People (IDPs) established next to a base of the African Union Mission for Somalia (AMISOM) near Jowhar. Heavy rains in Somalia, coupled with recent clashes between clans, has resulted in over four thousand IDPs seeking shelter at the base.

“Harrowing” intelligence report still downplays threat of climate change to national security

By Jessica McKenzie | Climate Change

The Memorial Cenotaph at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, 2012.

The atomic bomb and common security

By Richard Rhodes | Nuclear Risk

By the end of 1943, the US Navy had installed 120 electromechanical Bombe machines like the one above, which were used to decipher secret messages encrypted by German Enigma machines, including messages from German U-boats. Built for the Navy by the Dayton company National Cash Register, the US Bombe was an improved version of the British Bombe, which was itself based on a Polish design. Credit: National Security Agency

Keeping classified information secret in a world of quantum computing

By Jake Tibbetts | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Voices of Tomorrow

Google CEO Sundar Pichai.

Information overload: The promise and risk of quantum computing

By Lindsay Rand, Berit Goodge | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies

The focus of US military efforts in outer space should be … arms control

By Lawrence J. Korb | Nuclear Weapons, Special Topics

The Trump administration put Chinese firm Huawei on a list that could make it difficult to do business in the United States. Credit: Brücke-Osteuropa via Wikimedia Commons.

The 10-minute interview: Joy Dantong Ma on why Trump is targeting Huawei

By Matt Field | Analysis, Interviews

The military applications of AI

Artificial intelligence, cyberattack, and nuclear weapons—A dangerous combination

By Pavel Sharikov | Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

President Donald Trump poses with service members after signing the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 during a visit to Fort Drum, New York, on August 13, 2018.

Protectionist export controls could be bad for nonproliferation

By Kenshin Cho | Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Technology and Security, Voices of Tomorrow