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.
My film would be a documentary, meant to demonstrate that, while the world was off watching killer robot movies (and attempting to negotiate UN treaties to regulate robots that kill), a lethal ...
Protecting critical infrastructure from cyberattacks means confronting a mismatch between the threat and the government’s ability to respond.
As global interest in nuclear weapons surges, Pakistan's recent conflict with India reveals their stark limits—failing to deter deep cross-border strikes while adding dangerous escalation risks. By ...
As the last surviving US servicemen who witnessed the aftermath of Hiroshima and Nagasaki reach their 100s, their harrowing ...
In May 1955, 25 young Japanese women, all of whom had been schoolchildren who survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, were flown to the United States. They became known in the press as the ...
As global nuclear tensions mount, the firsthand testimonies of atomic bombing and testing survivors—from Japanese hibakusha ...
Opinion
Is it a chemical? Is it alive? Oversight in the coming era of synthetic cells could be complicated
Lab-designed cells could someday be used in medicine, environmental cleanup, or manufacturing. Imagine spraying biosensing cells on a wall to test for hidden mold or swallowing a pill full of cells ...
Peter A. Carr is a senior principal engineer at RTX BBN Technologies, where he leads research and development at the intersection of synthetic biology and national security. Prior to joining BBN, Carr ...
Editor’s note: This is a developing story that will be updated. On Wednesday, the Trump administration signed a landmark cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia to develop a civilian nuclear energy ...
Nuclear energy recently crossed a global milestone. In 2025, the share of all electrical energy flowing in the world’s grids coming from nuclear power plants was just 8.8 percent, roughly half of what ...
ROME—In a future nuclear crisis, the speed of artificial intelligence may leave little room for human judgment or decision-making. Other AI impacts—its potential to empower destabilizing cyber-attacks ...
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