OUR PICKSFood Sector Vulnerability | Energy Insecurity Is Here to Stay | How Many Nukes? And more Published 24 March 2022 ·  Deter Russia’s Use of Chemical Weapons in Ukraine ·  Russia’s Ukraine Invasion Makes DOD Tech Officials Ask ‘Are We Postured for That Kind of Fight?’ ·  The U.S. and Europe Are Looking for a Path

UKRAINE WARRussia’s Remaining Weapons Are Horrific and Confounding By Christina Pazzanese Published 23 March 2022 Along with concerns over the possible deployment of tactical nuclear weapons, the Biden administration is now warning that the Russian military may launch a chemical weapons attack in Ukraine. Harvard Kennedy School’s Matthew Bunn assesses threat, possible fallout of chemical

CHINA WATCHCornell University: Chinese Students Walk Out after Uyghur Student Asks About Genocide By Asim Kashgarian Published 23 March 2022 The campus of Cornell University offered a demonstration of the divide between Chinese authorities and the nation’s Uyghur minority, when Chinese students staged a walkout after an Uyghur student asked a speaker – Rep. Elissa

ARGUMENT: POST WAR — ADVANTAGE WESTEurope After the Ukraine War Published 23 March 2022 The war in Ukraine is still raging, and its outcome not yet certain, but there is no doubt that the war, in Ralph Cohen’s words, is “a watershed historical event.” He highlights four macro-levels trends which are upending the strategic balance

TORNADOESTornadoes, Climate Change Make Dixie the new Tornado Alley By Ernest Agee Published 23 March 2022 Studies do show tornadoes getting more frequent, more intense and more likely to come in swarms. Moreover, studies show that, statistically, there is an emergence of another center of tornado activity in the Southeast, centered around Alabama. Oklahoma still

An innovative method of recycling rare earth elements from electronic waste has gone commercial. A team of researchers from the Critical Materials Institute (CMI), a U.S. Department of Energy Innovation Hub led by the Ames Laboratory, developed a novel way to extract rare earth elements (rare earths) from the high-powered magnets in electronic waste (e-waste). Recently, TdVib LLC,

PLANETARY SECURITYUn-Earthing Planetary Defense Published 23 March 2022 This summer, NASA will launch its first mission to a metallic asteroid, 16 Psyche, located in the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Previous missions have explored rocky and icy asteroids, but Psyche’s composition is widely believed to consist of a considerable amount

EMP THREATUltrafast Devices to Protecting the Grid from EMPs Published 23 March 2022 Scientists from Sandia National Laboratories have announced a tiny, electronic device that can shunt excess electricity within a few billionths of a second while operating at a record-breaking 6,400 volts — a significant step towards protecting the nation’s electric grid from an

OUR PICKSThe Drone Era Has Arrived | Locking Digital Doors | Migrants & Terrorists, and more Published 23 March 2022 ·  What’s the Likelihood of Nuclear War? ·  US Needs More Arms Factories, Says Chief Weapons-Buyer Nominee ·  The Drone Era Has Arrived ·  Male State: The Russian Online Hate Group Backing Putin’s War ·  Critical Infrastructure Warned to

An innovative method of recycling rare earth elements from electronic waste has gone commercial. A team of researchers from the Critical Materials Institute (CMI), a U.S. Department of Energy Innovation Hub led by the Ames Laboratory, developed a novel way to extract rare earth elements (rare earths) from the high-powered magnets in electronic waste (e-waste). Recently, TdVib LLC,