Even without runaway superintelligence or malicious intent, current AI systems risk triggering nuclear war by amplifying ...

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Unlike the US and UK, where start-ups and governments are betting heavily on small modular reactors, France’s state-led ...

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More than half a century after the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) entered into force, it still has no standing system for verifying compliance. Since the last major attempt at closing that gap ...

Eden is senior research scholar (Emeritus) at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation. Her scholarly work focuses on the military and society; science, technology, and ...

Alexander Wimmers is a postdoctoral research associate at the Workgroup for Infrastructure Policy at Technische Universität (TU) Berlin, a guest researcher at the German Institute for Economic ...

AnnaJulia Yates is a research assistant at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia.

Seth Grae is chairman and chief executive officer of Lightbridge Corporation (Nasdaq: LTBR), a nuclear fuel technology company. Thomas Graham Jr. chaired Lightbridge’s board from 2009 to 2024.