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This article presents several news briefs related to socio-political developments across the world. Information is presented on a revelation by David Bliss, an employee at Lewis and Clark College, that Monica Lewinsky, an intern at the U.S. White House, when she was a student there, forged his signature on a job offer for a friend of hers. Information is presented on stockholders' reaction to the market's 9 percent decline since last two months. Details are presented about the Shays-Meehan campaign-finance reform bill, recently passed by the U.S. House. A "white paper" was recently issued by China, on national defense, in response to American calls for greater openness about its military.

The article discusses two studies related to the catastrophic scale threatened by possible high-technology attacks as of August 29, 2016. Topics covered include a study on emerging security threats by Brookings Institution scholar Benjamin Wittes, a paper by economists Ian Martin and Robert Pindyck on threats of catastrophic magnitude, and the likelihood of at least one catastrophic earthquake by 2025 according to Martin and Pindyck.

Focuses on the talking paper sent by several authors to United States President Ronald Reagan which proposes several ways by which the country should deal with the issue of nuclear weapons. Key proposals of the paper; Authors included in the campaign; Authors' lack of knowledge about national security and nuclear weaponry.