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The US government’s dangerous rush to produce new plutonium pits

As the National Nuclear Security Administration pushes to dramatically accelerate plutonium pit production, it is cutting ...
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Scientists say authors of a controversial government climate report made basic error

Climate contrarians questioned evidence of a human fingerprint on climate change in a report commissioned by the Energy ...
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How prediction markets could distort drug approvals

Prediction markets now offer the chance to wager on drug trials and regulatory approvals. The consequences could be negative ...
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Michael Stein

Michael Stein is chair and professor of Health Law, Policy, and Management at the Boston University School of Public Health. As a physician, his addictions research focuses on behavioral risk-taking ...
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Timothy Callaghan

Timothy Callaghan is an associate professor of health policy and politics in the Department of Health Law, Policy, and ...
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How the bad science of AI doomerism is good for big business

When Jacob Coxon resigned earlier this month from Anthropic, citing dramatic concerns about AI racing humans toward extinction, it capped several years of public defections by employees warning that ...
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How the bomb failed to deliver security in Pakistan

The world is witnessing a renewed interest in nuclear weapons. From nuclear modernization plans in the United States, to growing anxieties in Europe and East Asia about the reliability of the US ...
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‘AI Godfather’ Yoshua Bengio: We need a humanity defense organization

Editor’s note: This article was commissioned by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and is also published in WIRED. Yoshua Bengio, Mila’s scientific director, is a pioneer in artificial neural ...
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Managed to death: How Canada turned its forests into a carbon bomb

Editor’s note: This story was originally published by Canada’s National Observer. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. This year’s coast-to-coast wildfires in Canada have already ...
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Pentagon’s secret plan: Reviving Cold War doctrines to lower the threshold for nuclear war

A new nuclear policy is taking shape in secret, crafted by a small group of Pentagon officials, that will give President Donald Trump more ways to start a nuclear war. Little is known about the ...
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DOGE’s staff firing fiasco at the nuclear weapon agency means everything but efficiency

According to a recent press report, the Energy Department has identified 8,500 employees who are “nonessential” and therefore vulnerable to being laid off by Elon Musk’s chainsaw-welding wrecking crew ...
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An interview with Annie Jacobsen, author of ‘Nuclear War: A Scenario’

This article was originally published by Mother Jones. Nuclear war is a topic few care to think about. We sometimes call it unthinkable. But we need to think carefully, and to talk—particularly with ...