Drones with autonomous functions reduce dependence on communications links and can escape attempts at jamming. But they come with huge ethical risks.
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The use of chemical weapons has been outlawed for nearly a century.
Landmines from wars can stay hidden and a threat for decades. Climate change is making the risk even greater.
Ambulance workers are increasingly being verbally abused and physically attacked. Two paramedicine researchers explain how we can better protect them.
If you care about particular issues – from climate change to weapons of war – it’s worth looking more closely at where your money is really going.
Arun Dawson talks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about the history of Iran’s Shahed drones and how the US cloned them.
Anthropic’s refusal to allow the U.S. Department of War unrestricted access to Claude raises questions for many nations.
Swords found in early medieval graves show the complex cultural meanings that weapons can hold.
North Korea was behind a $1.5 billion digital bank heist in February 2025. Other countries are similarly stealing crypto to fund nefarious activities.
Factors contributing to school violence are found in the family, the community and the school.
A contender for this year’s best horror picture, ‘Weapons,’ is part of film traditions that conjure terror out of stillness, partly through jump scares.
There are more guns in Australia now than before the Port Arthur massacre in 1996. Why? And who is buying firearms?
The film illustrates how someone’s own brain can transform them from a decent person into the villain in someone else’s story.
Many of us fear our streets are getting less safe, but what does the data say about violent crime in Australia?
Crime stats show how Australia’s efforts to restrict weapon use has been largely successful. But more can be done.
Sometimes it seems as if Australia is grappling with an unprecedented violent crime crisis. Crime stats paint a different picture, however.
Drones, AI-targeting systems and the jostle for power in space raise a host of ethical questions about how, when, where and why we should fight.
The GBU-57 Massive Ordance Penetrator is a weapon only the US can deploy – but it may have unintended consequences.
The conflict between India and Pakistan puts two of the world’s nuclear powers head to head.
A scholar who became a gun owner later in life found there is more to firearms than criminal violence, injury and death, and more to gun culture than democracy-destroying right-wing politics.
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Clinical Professor of International Business; Director, Center for Global Business Studies; Associate Dean for International Programs, Penn State
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Associate Professor in Criminal Justice and Criminology, Bond University
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PhD in machine ethics, University of Canterbury
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Research Fellow at Project on International Security, Commerce and Economic Statecraft, University at Albany, State University of New York
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Principal Research Fellow, Griffith University
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Adjunct Associate Professor, The University of Queensland
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School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Director of Research, Africa Center for Strategic Studies, University of Maryland
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Professor of Law, Adelaide University
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Professor of Engineering Dynamics and Vibration, University of Cambridge
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Reader in Drawing, Leeds Beckett University; Independent Social Research Foundation
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Professor of Archaeology and Biological Anthropology, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer in Global Studies, Social Science & Planning, RMIT University
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Reader, Politics and International Relations Group, Leeds Beckett University