The Bulletin’s disruptive technology vertical tracks a wide variety of scientific and technological advances that could—either in the present or the future—pose an existential threat to humanity.

Declarations that humans will be in the loop regarding AI-assisted military decisions should ensure they'll have meaningful control.

Facing three paths following major US strikes on its nuclear infrastructure, Iran is most likely to rebuild its latent ...

In March 2016, the Chinese government opened the doors to a nuclear security training center in Beijing with assistance from American experts. Sandia National Laboratories had worked with their ...

As the National Nuclear Security Administration pushes to dramatically accelerate plutonium pit production, it is cutting ...

Climate contrarians questioned evidence of a human fingerprint on climate change in a report commissioned by the Energy ...

On October 11, 1986, US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev met in Reykjavik, where they confronted the threat of nuclear weapons and found common ground despite the Cold War.

In the summer of 2023, as Russia threatened nuclear strikes against Ukraine, we conducted the most comprehensive academic survey of global attitudes toward nuclear weapons ever undertaken. Across 24 ...

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 ...

Nunzio Marcelli narrowly avoided a tree root before pulling his car to a stop on a mountainside in central Italy where his sheep have grazed for more than 40 years. The 2,800-meter Majella massif is ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published by Inside Climate News. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On the heels of the hottest ...

When a Wired journalist described a modified Tesla as a mobile “surveillance station” (Greenberg 2019), American readers probably filed the observation under the general category of things to worry ...