In 1978, Taiwanese authorities began constructing a nuclear waste storage facility on the outlying island of Lanyu. The local ...
European attitudes toward digital privacy and technology regulation are dismissed in the US as technophobia. But there are ...
Since at least 2021, the Chinese state-sponsored campaign known as "Salt Typhoon" lived inside the telecommunications ...
What went wrong with the internet, and how do we fix it—particularly in an era when data centers and AI seem about to overrun ...
The Pentagon's $3.2 billion bet on space-based boost-phase missile defense ignores basic orbital dynamics, offering no real ...
Unanticipated shutdowns at nuclear power plants will increase in frequency as extreme weather events driven by climate change ...
Scientists showed recently that AI can be used to produce novel viruses. We need to build a layered system of defense before AI-enabled bioweapons capabilities become undeniably advanced—or worse, ...
Drone technology, once confined to great powers like the United States and China, has spread to smaller states and non-state ...
Civil society, not the AI industry, should write the rules for the new constitution driven by artificial intelligence.
Since President Eisenhower more-or-less invented the term military-industrial complex, US defense spending has grown, dramatically in some eras, leveling off a bit in others, but overall heading ...
How much does war, and the preparation and recovery from it, contribute to the climate crisis? Nobody knows, because there is no comprehensive accounting of global warming emissions from militaries, ...