Following recent reports of a death at a secretive Siberian disease research lab, author Annie Jacobsen has become a sought-after media interview. Some interviewers are now casting Jacobsen's new ...

A landmark 24-country study reveals that a majority of people worldwide embraces both nuclear deterrence and disarmament, ...

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

There is no clear path showing that today’s AI systems will lead to superintelligence, much less a basis for calculating the ...

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

Workgroup for Infrastructure Policy at Technische Universität (TU) Berlin, a guest researcher at the German Institute for ...

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 ...

In January 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing his administration to build a missile defense system—now called Golden Dome—intended to address a wide range of threats, ...

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, ...

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 ...

On May 7, 1955, 25 young Japanese women arrived by airplane at Travis Airfield in California. They had flown there from Iwakuni Airbase in Tokyo a few days prior, with a layover in Honolulu. In ...

The Trump administration continues to flounder about its nuclear aims in the Middle East. The on-again, off-again war to get Iran to give up its nuclear program appears no closer to resolution, ...