national security

The rise of the military-technology complex

By Bernice Yeung | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Investigative Reporting, The AI Power Trip

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Judges aren’t buying claims that wind farms threaten national security, for good reason

By Jessica McKenzie | Climate Change

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Deny, delay, downplay: How governments hide climate change intelligence

By Rachel Santarsiero | Climate Change

Trump is manipulating national security to stop energy projects he doesn’t like

By Peter Gleick | Climate Change, Opinion

George C. Scott in Dr Strangelove

The dangerous new Washington consensus for more nuclear weapons

By Joe Cirincione | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

two scientists at microscope

Obama’s science adviser on Trump’s science cuts: “The system will starve”

By Matt Field | Special Topics

INTERVIEW: New study finds national security officials are way (way) too confident

By Thomas Gaulkin | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

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Running blind: The silencing and censoring of environmental threats to US national security

By Peter Gleick | Climate Change

DOGE’s staff firing fiasco at the nuclear weapon agency means everything but efficiency

By Stephen Young | Nuclear Weapons

Are the United States and Europe still allies? The European public doesn’t think so

By Lauren Sukin, Michal Smetana, Marek Vranka, Ondrej Rosendorf | Nuclear Risk

Maine senator grills intelligence director Gabbard on omission of climate change from annual threat report 

By Jessica McKenzie | Climate Change

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