Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Does Macron’s nuclear upgrade mark the end of France’s ‘strict sufficiency’ principle?

Despite the increase, the underlying spirit of strict sufficiency—maintaining only what is necessary to protect France's ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Astrid Chevreuil

Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC. Chevreuil ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

The war on Iran will speed the transition away from fossil fuels and toward nuclear energy, creating strategic challenges for the United States

One of the biggest surprises following the US-Israel attacks on Iran was how quickly Iran targeted Persian Gulf energy infrastructure. In the early hours of the fighting, energy analysts were ...
Opinion
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AI social platforms like Moltbook are potential accelerators of existential risk that should be regulated as critical infrastructure

AI social networks are where agents can compound their capabilities and coordinate at scale—and in which humans can lose control.
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As measles outbreaks grow, the economic cost of anti-vaccine misinformation could become clearer

Health economists are growing concerned about the future economic consequences of falling vaccination rates in the United States. In some regions, they are well below the level necessary to stop ...
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Why people believe conspiracy theories: A political scientist’s view

Political scientist Joseph Uscinski, a professor at the University of Miami, talks about conspiracy theories and the people who believe them. Uscinski’s research has found that conspiracy theories are ...
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At the brink: How Moscow’s ‘dirty bomb’ disinformation campaign risked a NATO-Russia war in October 2022

In October 2022, Russian forces were on the brink of collapse in Ukraine, and it was unclear if major Russian army units could even evacuate back across the Dnipro River to safety. Discontent was ...
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Introduction: Disinformation as a multiplier of existential threat

While trickery is old, what’s new is the very high level at which realistic- looking and -sounding “deepfake” photos and videos, synthetic feeds, and fabricated accounts can now be made—and the sheer ...
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AI in the information ecosystem and its impact on nuclear escalation

AI tools can generate realistic deepfakes, synthetic feeds, and fabricated accounts at scale, that could flood analysts during crises with large volumes of information that overload their capabilities ...
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How AI use in scholarly publishing threatens research integrity, lessens trust, and invites misinformation

Since 2023, a significant number of published scholarly papers show signs of having been edited using AI tools. These tools are also being used to review papers and search and discovery tools, in ways ...
Opinion
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Unready for war, AI may already be causing deadly mistakes

Gary Marcus discusses if the strike on a school in Iran stems from the use of artificial intelligence in the war.
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The evolution of a conspiracy-minded culture: A historian’s view

Kathryn Olmsted, a history professor at the University of California Davis, talks about how American conspiracy theories have changed since World War I and are now focused more on government than on ...