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Opinion
4 October 2013
Biosecurity

Bioweapons alarmism in Syria

Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley

In the case of Syria, is the media falling prey to the same biological weapons hysteria that led to the invasion of Iraq in 2003?

Columnists
27 September 2013
Biosecurity
Middle East

A ruinous road to Damascus: Can the US avoid it?

Charles P. Blair

All options in Syria are bad, but some are worse than others—and may require boots on the ground.

Analysis
20 September 2013
Special TopicsTechnology and Security
Americas

US killer robot policy: Full speed ahead

Mark Gubrud

The Defense Department's policy for autonomy in weapon systems may appear to reflect caution, but it allows the Pentagon to fund, test, buy, and use technology that could target and kill by machine decision.

Columnists
17 September 2013
BiosecurityNuclear Weapons
AmericasEurope/RussiaMiddle East

Would the United States ever actually use nuclear weapons?

Kingston Reif

What the Syria crisis tells us.

Explain This
13 September 2013
BiosecurityTechnology and Security
Middle East

How to destroy chemical weapons

Paul F. Walker

Here are the three main methods that would likely be used to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons arsenal, if the Assad regime follows through on its announced desire to join the Chemical Weapons Convention.

Columnists
6 September 2013
Biosecurity
AmericasMiddle East

Syria and the limits of realpolitik

Hugh Gusterson

The idea that intervention will make America safer is wrong-headed.

1 September 2013

The code not taken: China, the United States, and the future of cyber espionage

Adam Segal

Both China and the United States have a common interest in protecting national infrastructure from third-party attacks, but neither appears willing to give up cyber espionage.

1 September 2013

From bombs to bytes: Can our nuclear history inform our cyber future?

Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

In this essay, the author argues that cyber war does not pose the existential threat to humanity that nuclear weapons do. 

1 September 2013
Features

Easing sanctions on Iran might someday be necessary—but it won't be easy

Navid HassibiTom Sauer

Reviewing decades of sanctions on Iran, the authors write that a diplomatic resolution should be the approach to resolving the standoff with Iran over its nuclear program. 

1 September 2013

Who controls cyberspace?

Nazli ChoucriDavid D. Clark

As the international system and the empowered non-state groups and individuals of cyberspace shape one another, the potential collisions of law, policy, and the practice of governance have barely even been identified—it it time that the international community begin to understand how and where c

Opinion
30 August 2013
Biosecurity
Middle East

Syria: A defining moment for chemical weapons?

Oliver Meier

How the international community can decrease the likelihood of a chemical weapons comeback. 

Analysis
22 August 2013
BiosecurityTechnology and Security
Middle East

The suspected Syrian chemical attacks: What now?

Bulletin Staff

Chemical weapons and national security experts assess the situation in Syria and suggest ways in which the United States and the international community might proceed, in light of what would—if proven true—be the most extensive use of chemical weapons in the Syrian uprising.

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Analysis
20 August 2013
Nuclear WeaponsTechnology and Security
AmericasAsiaEurope/Russia

Into thin air: The story of Plutonium Mountain

Bulletin Staff

Former Los Alamos National Laboratory director Siegfried Hecker details one of the world’s great nonproliferation stories—the effort to secure the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan.

Agree to Disagree
14 August 2013
Middle East

The zone: Avenue toward a comprehensive settlement

Ayman Khalil

Isaac Newton observed, in so many words, that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. What does this have to do with the proposed Middle Eastern zone free of weapons of mass destruction?

Columnists
12 August 2013
Nuclear WeaponsTechnology and Security
Americas

Don’t let societal verification turn Borg

Lovely Umayam

Crowd-sourcing information on nuclear compliance carries risks as well as rewards.

Agree to Disagree
29 July 2013
Middle East

The good and the bad of the Arab Spring

Ehud Eiran

My colleagues and I have discussed at length the principles behind banning weapons of mass destruction from the Middle East. But any analysis of such a project's feasibility should also include an honest examination of the region's political and social circumstances.

Opinion
25 July 2013
Biosecurity
Americas

The path toward improved biosurveillance

Jennifer B. Nuzzo

The National Biosurveillance Science and Technology Roadmap provides important information, but doesn’t describe a clear route toward improved decision making during a public health emergency.

Columnists
23 July 2013
Technology and Security
Americas

Not all secrets are alike

Hugh Gusterson

Why there will be more Bradley Mannings and Edward Snowdens.

Columnists
22 July 2013
BiosecuritySpecial Topics
AmericasMiddle East

Lessons unlearned

Charles P. Blair

Once again, evidence of WMD is lacking. This time it’s in Syria.

Agree to Disagree
19 July 2013
Middle East

Sequencing is key

Mansour Salsabili

The US State Department announced last November that no conference on eliminating weapons of mass destruction from the Middle East would be held in 2012.

Agree to Disagree
15 July 2013
Middle East

A region in flux, a regime at risk

Ayman Khalil

No clear consensus has emerged in this Roundtable on a very basic point: whether the effort to establish a zone without weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East has collapsed—or has merely been suspended. I would be interested in hearing my colleagues' views on this question.

Columnists
10 July 2013
Biosecurity
Americas

Zombie lessons

Laura H. Kahn

Watching the spread of a deadly pandemic like the one in World War Z can promote better public and animal health.

Agree to Disagree
8 July 2013
Middle East

Fundamental reassessments required

Martin B. Malin

My colleagues and I agree on two fundamental points: that it is desirable to initiate a process toward banning weapons of mass destruction from the Middle East and that such a process will be long and difficult.

Agree to Disagree
1 July 2013
Middle East

Security imperatives outweigh imported norms

Ehud Eiran

This debate about the initiative to establish a WMD-free zone in the Middle East is, it seems to me, characterized by two competing outlooks.

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
1 July 2013
Middle East

Why politics is primary

Ibrahim Said Ibrahim

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