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Benedict Cumberbatch

Ironbark: Did two spies really prevent all-out nuclear war?

29 January 2020

Ironbark is one of 2020’s anticipated movies. Benedict Cumberbatch plays the MI6 handler of a Russian spy who may have helped prevent nuclear war


They Shall Not Grow Old review: Restored footage brings war to life

They Shall Not Grow Old review: Restored footage brings war to life

9 November 2018

A poignant archive of first world war film has been brilliantly restored for Peter Jackson's powerful documentary released for the centenary commemorations


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The alarming rise of a power that knows no borders, and how we resist

31 October 2018

Rule-breaking technology is challenging the evidence base on which all functioning societies depend. Two books explore the problem and how to fight back


A new data-driven idea of warfare doesn't quite add up

A new data-driven idea of warfare doesn't quite add up

11 July 2018

Mathematical models of conflict are seductive, but we shouldn’t throw out the lessons of the past, warns David Betz


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Bombhead and Bombs Away: when remembering is an art

2 May 2018

Powerful reminders of our nuclear and military past echo in an uncertain present, with a show in Vancouver and new book pulling no punches


Ghanya Naji Al-Naqeb

How refugee scientists can change the world

7 December 2017

What becomes of the scientists among those fleeing war and conflict in Africa and the Middle East, asks a documentary, Science in Exile


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Forensic Architecture: How to make right state wrongs

6 September 2017

State warfare wrecks homes and environments, and confuses land rights. Forensic architecture may help bring justice, finds a new book


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