What We’re Reading

An unmanned British Royal Navy vessel patrols a harbor near Troia, Portugal, during a NATO exercise. Credit: NATO.

NATO’s robot navy hints at the future of warfare

By Matt Field | Disruptive Technologies, What We’re Reading

Bulletin author wins MacArthur “genius” award

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The second of two reactors at China’s Taishan nuclear power plant, a Chinese-French joint venture, entered commercial operation on September 7, 2019. Credit: EDF

An “undeclared phaseout” of the nuclear industry

By Dawn Stover | Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, What We’re Reading

Vela Double Flash Signal

Double Flash: Forty years ago, the Carter administration covered up a presumed Israeli nuclear test

By John Krzyzaniak | Nuclear Weapons, What We’re Reading

A sampling of front pages from newspapers in Shiraz on Wednesday, September 11, 2019.

The Abadeh site: What Iranians are saying about Netanyahu’s revelations

By John Krzyzaniak | Nuclear Risk, What We’re Reading

Smallpox virus virions. Credit: Fred Murphy / Sylvia Whitfield / CDC.

An explosion rocked a Russian research facility known for housing the smallpox virus

By Matt Field | Biosecurity, What We’re Reading

Attacks on Saudi oil facilities raise US-Iran tensions

By John Mecklin | Special Topics, What We’re Reading

New START support by state

The American public supports New START. Will the Trump administration?

By John Krzyzaniak | Nuclear Weapons, What We’re Reading

Tehran US embassy painting

A Trump-Rouhani meeting: inevitable or inconceivable?

By John Krzyzaniak | Nuclear Risk, What We’re Reading

Modi and Singh

Is India “creatively reinterpreting” its no-first-use policy?

By John Krzyzaniak | Nuclear Risk, What We’re Reading

Things you shouldn’t nuke

By Thomas Gaulkin | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, What We’re Reading

A recent protest in Hong Kong. Credit: Studio Incendo via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-2.0.

Hong Kongers rage against smart lampposts, Chinese surveillance

By Matt Field | Disruptive Technologies, What We’re Reading