Elisabeth Eaves
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Seattle, WA, United States
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Quantum computing, biotech, and climate change among threats of most concern to US
US national security is focused on terrorists with nukes, “megacorporations,” and underwater swarming drones, among other long-range emerging threats. → Read More
Trump and Bolton try to dismantle the INF Treaty
After accusing Russia of violating the seminal Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, the US president said Washington would soon withdraw. → Read More
A wearable to detect chemical weapons
The Army is investing in a better wearable sensor to detect specific chemical and biological toxins. → Read More
But will they eat it? - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
As lab-grown meat gets closer to our plates, debate is heating up over what to call it. → Read More
John McCain’s climate legacy
A complicated senator bucked his party and took action to combat climate change in the early 2000s. → Read More
The worst cyberattack-so far
How the Russian cyberweapon NotPetya shut down a global shipping giant. → Read More
Beatrice Fihn wants to ban more than just nuclear weapons
The leader of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, who accepted the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize on her organization's behalf, wants to ban more than just nukes. She says we have bigger things coming up. → Read More
John Oliver tackles Crispr
With his knack for extracting hilarity from complex subjects, Last Week Tonight’s John Oliver tackled the gene-editing tool Crispr this week, to the relief of high school science teachers everywhere. Pioneered in recent years, Crispr has the potential to eradicate many diseases, but could also, in theory, permanently alter whole species in regrettable ways. (Though we … Continued → Read More
Space forces real and imagined
The US president’s announcement revives debate about weapons in space. → Read More
What Trump gave away
We can all agree that avoiding nuclear war is a good outcome, and in the sense that talking is better than firing missiles, Tuesday’s Singapore summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un—who not long ago threatened one another with nuclear destruction—was successful. → Read More
Who is Kim Jong-un?
South Korean President Moon Jae-in, left, walks with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, right during their meeting on May 26, 2018 in Panmunjom, North Korea. North and South Korean leaders held the surprise second summit after US President Donald Trump cancelled the meeting with Kim Jong-un scheduled for June 12. Trump and Kim have since indicated that a June meeting could take place after all.… → Read More
Can cybercrime victims hack back?
Sony Pictures. Equifax. Yahoo. Companies always look hapless at best, criminally negligent at worst, when they have to confess to being hacked. But suppose a corporation has the skills, resources, and will to fight back. What exactly is it supposed to do? Measures such as infiltrating the attacker’s network to retrieve stolen data, collect information, or cause damage are → Read More
The new bio-weapon risk
In the 1970s, the Rhodesian government poisoned wells with cholera in areas held by black nationalists. In 1940, Japan dropped plague-infected fleas from airplanes onto a Chinese city. And as far back as 1925, Winston Churchill worried about the prospect of Anthrax attacks. → Read More
Tech workers revolt
Once upon a time, a defense contractor was a defense contractor. If you went to work for Raytheon or Northrop Grumman, you knew you were going to build war machines. In this age of big data, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence, though, the definition of a weapon—and by extension a weapons manufacturer—is murkier. Much of our most cutting-edge technology is dual-use: → Read More
Tech workers revolt - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Employees of Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and other tech companies are getting vocal about not wanting their work weaponized. → Read More
Meet me in Pyongyang: an interview with Siegfried Hecker
Trump and Kim Jong-un have agreed to meet. Siegfried Hecker, a top US expert on North Korean nuclear weapons, talks about how this came about and what it means. → Read More
What is Bill Gates doing about climate change?
Together with his wife, Bill Gates has given away some $27 billion, much of it to global health causes through their Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. That’s around the gross domestic product of Latvia. → Read More
The eye in the sky is getting smarter, especially in China
Authoritarian governments and leaders have always aspired to a high degree of control over citizens’ lives, but for a long time, technological limits put their dreams out of reach. Criminals and dissidents could hide in plain sight, lost in the anonymity of big cities. Human security staff could make mistakes, fall asleep, or get recruited to the other side. → Read More
And the sea will tell, for real
In one of my favorite true-crime books, evidence of murder is uncovered on a remote Pacific Ocean atoll amid shifting sands and tides. The title of the book by Vincent Bugliosi, And The Sea Will Tell, is, of course, metaphorical. → Read More
US lifts ban on funding creation of lethal viruses
With a new approval process in place, scientists can now apply to conduct “gain-of-function” research on deadly diseases. → Read More