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 ...

AnnaJulia Yates is a research assistant at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia.

Last week, US Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink said that the United States has fielded “on-orbit space control weapons capable of defending the Joint Force against hostile adversary action.” It ...

Iran’s nuclear dispute has entered a new and potentially more dangerous phase. Repeated US and Israeli threats of further strikes on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure—particularly the newly identified ...

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 ...

In 2021, open-source researchers using satellite imagery discovered three fields in Western China containing 320 silos for intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). This indicated a major growth in ...