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,…

Local governments negotiating data center deals lack guidance because experienced communities are unwilling to share lessons learned.

Military and wartime emissions are difficult to track—but too important to ignore.

New 'transactional' US global health agreements offer US aid for combatting HIV and other health threats in return for what critics say is expansive US access to resources.

Civil nuclear technology comes with unlikely but dangerous risks that shouldn’t be overlooked.

"These developments unfold within a broader context marked by a significant—and deeply troubling—erosion of international humanitarian law."

The future course of the Iran conflict remained nearly as murky after President Donald Trump's address as it was the previous day. That's also true of the status of possible secret chemical and…

The Free Press likes to publish provocative takes that punch holes in established ideologies. When that ethos is applied to the subject of climate change, the result is a largely one-sided perspective...

Measures meant to mitigate human-made biological risks remain anchored in conceptual frameworks like arms control agreements and export controls. These are increasingly misaligned with the challenges ...

With tactics ranging from choking off trade in drug ingredients in and around the Strait of Hormuz to launching a cyber attack on a company making systems for ambulances, Iran and its allies are…

"Biosafety modernization should refine and extend the architecture brought about by NIH’s venerable guidelines, not replace it."

AI social networks are where agents can compound their capabilities and coordinate at scale—and in which humans can lose control.

Gary Marcus discusses if the strike on a school in Iran stems from the use of artificial intelligence in the war.

Deploying US troops to seize or destroy Iran's highly enriched uranium would bring significant chemical, logistical, and tactical hurdles.

Fifteen years later, the lived experience of people resettling the evacuation zone reveals an ongoing disaster at Fukushima—one filled with radioactive hot spots, injustices, and stigma.

With his calibrated speech, Macron projected a more assertive French nuclear deterrence in Europe without abandoning the national tradition of restraint.

As war escalates in the Middle East, videos are being shared by those people experiencing missile and drone attacks firsthand.

President Donald Trump hopes for a quick resolution to the war in Iran followed by a new, US-friendly regime there. Joint US-Israeli airstrikes have already killed Iran's supreme leader, but history…

US President Donald Trump has called for regime change, the destruction of Iranian military capability, and the degradation of proxy groups. But an operation with multiple goals carries greater risk.

The war is not the result of deliberations or consultation. It is the impulsive decision of one man—like dictators do.

As with the 2003 Iraq war, the path to conflict with Iran has been paved with false statements. Pandora’s box is now open: The consequences of the US and Israeli attack on Iran will be lasting but are...

Why the showdown between Anthropic, a major developer of artificial intelligence models, and the US Department of War lead to existential-level catastrophe.

Biosecurity experts have repeatedly raised concerns about the convergence of AI with the life sciences. Agentic AI systems that combine the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) and specialized...

Remnants of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime are reorganizing and rearming in a country with ample stock of leftover chemical weapons. Even a single successful chemical attack by Assad...

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a toxin naturally found on the skin of South American frogs. His assassination was yet another violation of the international ban on…

If the negotiations scheduled for Friday between Iran and the United States are to be effective and durable, they must move beyond a single-issue on nuclear weapons and toward a comprehensive, direct,...

Experts share their concern about the no-rules, no-inspections period that opens when New START expires on Thursday. They also see an opportunity to adapt arms control to a multipolar world.

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Like Iran, governments worldwide rely on internet shutdowns to suppress populations, rig elections and collectively punish their citizens.

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As President Trump tries to coerce European leaders over Greenland and seems ready to break the transatlantic alliance, the crisis should serve as a catalyst for deeper and smarter Europeanization of ...

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The Trump administration sent hundreds of letters Tuesday terminating federal grants supporting mental health and drug addiction services.

The Bulletin’s mission—protecting civilization from manmade existential threats like nuclear weapons and climate change—is important. Filling civilization with art and the humanity it fosters is impor...

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Under the Trump Administration, international law, conserving nature, protecting children from war, developing renewable energy, and building peace are issues antithetical to US interests.

If the Trump administration's increasingly belligerent rhetoric about Venezuela sounds familiar, it's because it is: The George W. Bush administration was making similar arguments during the lead-up t...

If the Trump administration's increasingly belligerent rhetoric about Venezuela sounds familiar, it's because it is: The George W. Bush administration was making similar arguments during the lead-up t...

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