Postdoctoral research fellow, University of British Columbia
Lauren Borja is Simons Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Liu Institute for Global Issues, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at University of British Columbia.
Canada could slow the accelerating nuclear arms race
Sep 02, 2019 23:19 pm UTC| Insights & Views
The Aug. 8 explosion at a remote missile test site in Nyonoksa in Northern Russia has been covered widely in the media. The test involved something powered by radioactive isotopes (possibly a nuclear power generator of...
The argument from cyberspace for eliminating nuclear weapons
Nov 08, 2018 16:41 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
At the height of the Cold War in 1982, American psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton argued that the central existential fact of the nuclear age is vulnerability. That warning predated the proliferation of computers into almost...
There’s an extra $1 billion on the table for NT schools. This could change lives if spent well