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Crisis Preparedness
Caitlin Rivers wants to tell the story of epidemiology and the public health heroes who keep the world safe and healthy.
"We are not our grandparents. It’s time to start thinking differently," journalist Annie Jacobsen told Big Think.
Space weather poses a tremendous threat to all satellites, knocking all computer systems offline. Is that a recipe for Kessler syndrome?
While many imagine terrifying futures run by AI, Rohit Krishnan is quietly identifying real problems and solutions.
How many tins of beans make a stockpile, and when does a basement become a bunker?
The war in Ukraine is unlikely to trigger a catastrophic nuclear meltdown. Physics and smart engineering are the reasons why.
Cold War meets Star Wars in this cut-away of a 1950 “rubber bubble,” the first line of defense against nuclear sneak attack.
U.S. nuclear power plants are built to survive external attacks. Even missiles or a commercial aircraft strike would not cause a meltdown or radiation leak.