The Doomsday Clock is an internationally recognized design that conveys how close we are to destroying our civilization with dangerous technologies of our own making. First and foremost among these are nuclear weapons, but the dangers include climate-changing technologies, emerging... Read More
If the United States wants North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons program, covert communications are likely to be more successful than public pressure.
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.
Little is a visiting research scholar in disaster mitigation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners.
Will cities take the necessary steps to avoid, withstand, and recover from climate change’s worst effects? The survival and economic well-being of millions depends on that.
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.
Evgeny Buzhinsky's Round Three essay encapsulates a mindset that prevents nations from seriously contemplating forms of interstate security that are not anchored by nuclear weapons.
Though US nuclear policy seeks "to reduce the salience of nuclear weapons," it doesn't exclude their use against states that help terrorists obtain weapons of mass destruction.
In the developing world, women and their families often struggle because they lack access to modern energy. Women's days are taken up with menial tasks; children quit school because they can't study at night; everyone's health suffers.
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.
In Round Two, my colleague Manpreet Sethi correctly emphasized that terrorist penetration of sensitive military sites is a matter of real concern. But she focused narrowly on Pakistan's vulnerabilities to terrorism, and this oversimplifies the issue.
