The United States is estimated to have spent more than $400 billion on the kinds of antimissile goals that the president now ...

He speaks in classical Japanese, making it difficult for some citizens to fully comprehend what he is saying. After the dropping of a second atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki, he has ordered ...

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With the Doomsday Clock set at 90 seconds to midnight, experts urge us all to reengage with nuclear security issues.

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My assumption that humanist academics were all on the left was foolish, of course. But so was my defeatist certainty that ...

Presented as a translation of an out-of-print Japanese text, this National Book Award-winning metafictional novel takes place in colonial-era Taiwan, and follows a Japanese writer on a trip during ...

AI is a long way off from becoming Skynet, but it has its own set of risks and pitfalls, and we should stop using it.

Hence that helpful commercial depicting AI making thoughtful gift suggestions ... One notable exception: the atomic bomb. "We did it, we deployed it, most people regretted it, and that spurred ...

The picture has been widely shared for years and purportedly shows the aftermath of the explosion in the Japanese city.