Emerging Risks

Four scenarios from former NATO commander Admiral James Stavridis and Elliot Ackerman, decorated Marine veteran, on how it could happen.

The discovery further points to issues with global supply chain of potentially useful technology to enemy states.

Vaccine researcher Kathrin Jansen said at the #STATSummit that a flu pandemic is inevitable: “The question is, does it come tomorrow or 50 years from now?”

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Cold War-era bunkers in Prague have been repurposed as tourist sites and nightlife venues. With war in Ukraine bringing renewed nuclear threats, could these bunkers revert to their original purpose?

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  Iran has built a hypersonic ballistic missile, the semi-official Tasnim news agency quoted the Revolutionary Guards' aerospace commander as saying,

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The echoes of history are clear at every juncture of the unfolding conflict of the Russo-Ukrainian war.

Russia is now retreating our of Kherson in what is a major blow to President Putin and his effort to try and conquer Ukraine.

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If China were to attack Taiwan, it wouldn’t just have to face a hostile superpower. It would also likely have to confront its longstanding regional rival, Japan. For centuries, Japan and China have vied for hegemony in East Asia; at times, they have

In 2011, James Clapper, President Obama’s Director of National Intelligence, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that both Russia and China posed “the greatest mortal threat” to the United Sta…

Some programs are being cut, but the Pentagon document points to a nuclear future.

Life finds a way — though humans might not. This is what we can expect the Earth to be like after an all-out nuclear war.

The Biden administration quietly reduced the role of nuclear weapons in American defense strategy by eliminating a decades-long policy of using nuclear arms as a hedge against future developments and Every word and phrase is carefully calibrated and parsed in the document, and nuclear policy analysts say the change in language could result in the elimination of hundreds of stored nuclear weapons. Critics of the change say the weapons are needed to backstop arms control talks and could be deployed to respond to any large-scale “breakout” by nuclear rivals. Defense sources told The Washington Times that the policy shift is significant and, in the view of critics, will undermine efforts to reach arms control accords and weaken deterrence against unanticipated nuclear threats.

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The more the Kremlin has signalled its readiness to drop a nuclear bomb, the more the rest of the world has sought a reason to believe that it will not.

What I learned about the challenge of resisting a regime that locks up thousands of political prisoners

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Russian construction companies say they are receiving more calls from citizens who are asking for bunkers to be built in their homes.

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In war, nothing is inevitable and not much is predictable. But the war in Ukraine has a direction that observers can see and that we should name. What

A new list of Black Swan events is lurking everywhere: from war between China and Taiwan, to revolution in Iran, and a global recession. Managing them is a high wire act in which we are a shock away from a fall, writes Stan Grant.

According to available information, Royal Navy representatives took part in planning and implementation of a terrorist act in the Baltic Sea, Russia's MoD said.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine highlights the "acute threats" posed by Moscow, but China is the most consequential challenge for the United States, the US military said in a statement of its overall strategy…