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The Terror of Bio – and Chemical Weapons: Will They Be Used Again? – How...

By Joseph Mazur “A well-designed bacterial or virus strain, in contrast can be produced in a garage hidden from spy satellites, transported in a...
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Peace Talks in Wartime Are Tough: Why Do They Begin So Late in Battle?

By Joseph Mazur  The only way wars end is either by mutual agreement or by overwhelming death and destruction. We no longer live in an age...
A nuclear fireball lights up the night in a United States nuclear test

Nuclear Weapons: Are They Deterrents, Goads, or Risks?

By Joseph Mazur Nine countries possess nuclear weapons, and there are likely to be more in the next few decades. Two possible paths to deal...

Why Are Wars Legal? By International Law, Waging War Itself is a War Crime....

By Joseph Mazur The Geneva Convention permits states to defend themselves under the right to use force in expectancy of an armed attack by another...
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The NATO Alliance: Will It Have a Future?

By Joseph Mazur Withdrawal and isolation could avoid foreign affairs and wars, but the costs will be far higher in the long run. Since the end...
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Wars Of The Future Are Coming. Are We Ready? Foretelling Technological and Strategic Evolution...

By Joseph Mazur Technology and infrastructure change the world unnoticeably every day, and quite distinctively every thirty years so let us imagine together, if we...
Illicit Arms Captured By the US Navy

Why Are There So Many Wars, Especially Now? An Obscure Brilliance Of Arms Dealing...

by Joseph Mazur To understand war is to identify its roots in conflict. A war starts with one side or another rolling on odds of...
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What Makes a Genocide? How should we best understand the confounding connections between self-defence,...

By Joseph Mazur  A word best-describing intent to destroy a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group now swerves its definition to attack the victim. The...
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

Tadatoshi Akiba: “The Goal of The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is...

A conversation with the former mayor of Hiroshima on nuclear weapons By Joseph Mazur The city of Hiroshima will forever live in the memory...
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Two Hundred Years Of Talking About Climate Change

By Joseph Mazur Back in the 1970s, when I was a graduate student at MIT, there were a few weeks of cafeteria conversations among earth...

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The Performance and Transformation Orchestrator: The CFO’s New Mandate in the Age of AI

By Terence Tse CFOs are evolving into AI-driven transformation orchestrators, balancing finance, technology, and strategy while upskilling teams, managing risks, and driving measurable business value. A key insight from this year’s AI for CFOs event, organized...

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