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Side by side photographs or Dr. Li Wenliang in a lab coat and face mask and of him in bed on a ventilator.

Moral Courage in the Coronavirus: A Guide for Medical Providers and Institutions

Times of crisis generate extreme moral dilemmas: situations we can’t begin to imagine, unthinkable choices emerging between options that all seem bad, each with harms and negative…

The Early Edition: March 18, 2020

Signup to receive the Early Edition in your inbox here. Before the start of business, Just Security provides a curated summary of up-to-the-minute developments at home and…
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A “Twitter Chat” About COVID-19: Ethical Dilemmas in a Pandemic

The coronavirus pandemic is highlighting ethical issues for everyday citizens and healthcare workers. The public health has become more important than ever. Information is changing,…
PBS NewsHour's Yamiche Alcindor asks President Donald Trump about decision to close National Security Council Directorate for Global Health Security and Biodefense, March 13, 2020.

Lessons Ignored: John Bolton’s Bogus Defense of “Streamlining” Away Our Bio-Readiness

Former director of USAID’s Office of US Foreign Disaster Assistance won't let John Bolton rewrite history. "What undermines public confidence ... is the administration’s own…
In this photograph, what appears to be a big explosion is an electromagnetic railgun is fired at 10.64 megajoules with a muzzle velocity of 2,520 meters per second at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren, VA. January 31, 2008.

The Complex Policy Questions Raised by Nuclear Energy’s Role in the Future of Warfare

Military planners are eyeing a new generation of energy-dense nuclear reactors to power future high-energy weapons, despite potential policy and legal challenges to doing so.
A medical tent has been set up outside Norwood Hospital in anticipation and preparedness for patients needing testing and treatment for COVID-19 in Norwood, Massachusetts on March 12, 2020.

Hospitals Need to Cancel Elective Procedures: This is a pandemic – No time for business as usual.

"As an anesthesiologist and medical ethicist working on the front lines of this pandemic, I’m keenly aware of the ethical dilemmas facing healthcare workers, like never seen…
A 3-D rendering of the novel coronavirus.

Highlights of Expert Panel on COVID-19 from Harvard, MIT, Mass General Hospital

Key findings of top medical researchers on coronavirus at a first-of-its-kind "virtual Grand Rounds."
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Recap of Recent Articles on Just Security (March 9-13)

COVID-19, FISA reform, US-Iran, and much more ... in our top national security issues of the week.
An ambulance drives by Brigham and Women's Hospital, part of it will be a coronavirus, COVID-19, testing site, in Boston, Massachusetts on March 7, 2020.

Universal Health Care is a National Security Issue

Universal health care is not just essential to our health and economic security; it is essential to our national security as well.
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Recap of Recent Articles on Just Security (March 2-6)

Our analysis of top national security issues of the week.
Delegates taking part in the U.N. Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space visit the USSR exhibit organized in connection with the Conference, Aug. 14, 1968.

Military Space Operations and International Law

(Editor’s Note: The absence of a comprehensive analysis of the legal framework for military operations in outer space represents a troubling deficiency in the understanding of…
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Recap of Recent Articles on Just Security (Feb 24-28)

Pardon power and Stone trial, norms in cyberspace, Justice Department leadership and more at Just Security this week.
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