Emerging Risks

Republican House Intelligence Committee members allege in a report that there are indications that COVID-19 could be tied to China’s biological weapons research program.

In November 2022, the Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet Admiral Samuel Paparo, stated that China’s Jin-class submarines (Type 094) are “equipped with JL-3 intercontinental ballistic miss

When this documentary premiered, less than a year had passed since a devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami had crippled Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear c...

Alexander Khodakovsky suggested Moscow could launch a nuclear strike if NATO crosses "certain boundaries" in the Ukraine war.

As Yankee great Yogi Berra explained, “its tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” For decades, the U.S. intelligence community has projected its best future assessment of

Al-Qaeda terrorists intercepted a shipment being delivered from Iran to a rebel group in Yemen, according to allegations made in an Israeli newspaper.

A Kremlin-linked paramilitary group asked for border intel on Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, raising concerns about rogue actions in NATO states.

With Russian technology, Iran’s brazen attacks in the Middle East may become even more destabilizing for the region.

Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said on Sunday that Iran's Gulf Arab neighbours would act to shore up their security if Tehran were to obtain nuclear weapons.

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China has embarked on a rapid-fire effort to grow its nuclear arsenal.

Pentagon’s recent report on China’s Military Power estimated that China’s stockpile of nuclear warheads has surpassed 400 in a surprisingly short period. Just days later, there is bickering in the US Congress that Beijing may have amassed more nuclear warheads than Washington.

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As the last generation that remembers full-scale global war is disappearing, the United States may be stumbling into a catastrophe.

It's now clear to U.S. officials that China, once considered a possible ally, has become an threat to national security, U.S. companies and American workers.

As Russia once again threatens European peace, it fell upon the shoulders of an exiled Russian democrat to issue a dire warning about the fate of what used to be called 'the free world'.

The West is screwed, says the realist foreign policy scholar

Former Fed chief Ben Bernanke believes the 2008 financial crisis was the worst in global history, topping even the Great Depression.

The fact that so many news outlets and officials have evoked the last world war in recent months to give the current conflict perspective is itself alarming. "And the phrase, "not since World War II," or variations of it, have been used to an unprecedented degree by media outlets and officials over the past year to describe the unsettling precedent for this horrific war."

After more than two months of relative silence in Iranian media about nuclear talks, pundits have started debates on the diplomatic impasse amid popular protests.

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Demonstrations against Beijing’s zero-COVID policy have surged in the past week, with people voicing their frustration at not only the lockdown measures

The war in Ukraine should have put to rest any doubts that the China-Russia partnership constitutes a de facto anti-US alliance.

Rapid advancements in China’s military capabilities pose increasing risks to American supremacy in outer space, the head of the United States military’s space wing said on Monday.

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The pictures from state TV are a look inside one of the world's largest deployed nuclear weapons.

While previous intel assessments said Iran would need 2 years to assemble weapon, NYT finds growing gaps in West's knowledge of Tehran's progress, particularly at Fordo site

Tehran also claims to build new centrifuges, says moves are retaliation for international resolution criticizing its lack of cooperation with UN nuclear agency

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