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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

Why 2020 disinformation campaigns may be outsourced to the Philippines

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

The Tory-IIA nuclear ramjet engine.

Project Pluto and the trouble with Russia’s nuclear-powered cruise missile

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

Photo illustration by Matt Field based in part on photos by premier.gov.ru and www.kremlin.ru via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 4.0.

Ahead of 2020, disinformation and fake news are alive and well on social media 

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

Border marker at San Ysidro, California. Credit: Josh Denmark/US Customs and Border Protection

White nationalism’s solution to climate change: fewer brown people

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

Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the cutting room floor

By Thomas Gaulkin | Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Nuclear Weapons, What We’re Reading

glass globe and water

Louisiana congressman bets the era of climate denial is over. Or does he?

By Dan Drollette Jr | Analysis, Climate Change, What We’re Reading

A US military artist's vision of laser weapons. Perhaps surprisingly, on Earth, the Pentagon is well on the way to making talking laser-formed plasma balls a reality. Credit: Defense Department via Wikimedia Commons.

The Pentagon’s getting closer to fielding talking lasers

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

The sea is rising. Can you save your town?

By Thomas Gaulkin | Climate Change, What We’re Reading