Good morning. We're re-sending this newsletter after using an incorrect description for the Speaker Series with Dr. Ellen Messer in yesterday's email. We apologize for the mixup and hope you enjoy Dr. Messer's video along with the rest of the newsletter.

The very idea is the stuff of nightmares to many. But nukes on a battlefield could become a reality in the not distant future, according to this new report from GNSI.

GNSI Decision Brief

Keynote speakers include Dr. Stefanie Tompkins, Director of DARPA, Lt. General Alexus Grynkewich, Commander of AFCENT, General Michael "Eric" Kurilla, Commander of USCENTCOM and Major General (USAF) (Ret) Charles Dunlap, Jr. Exec Director of Center on Law, Ethics and National Security, Duke University.  Complete Info and Registration

Conference Report: Policy Dialogues: Hunger as a Weapon

Leading experts gathered at USF to continue the global push to eliminate the weaponization of hunger. Read the full report.

A followup to her appearance at GNSI Policy Dialogues: Hunger as a Weapon, one of the world's leading experts on GMO's discusses the many and varied ways in which our food and food supply chains can be exploited. She also discusses the history of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), along with their advantages and disadvantages..

GNSI Speaker Series: Dr. Ellen Messer

"The Making of the Atomic Bomb" by Richard Rhodes is the quintessential recounting of The Manhattan Project, a book the NY Times Review said "brings to life the men and machines that gave us the nuclear era."

Archived Review from the NY Times

Other stories of interest:

• Upcoming calendar of GNSI Events. Read More.
• CyberSecureFlorida is a first-of-its-kind statewide effort to strengthen Florida's critical infrastructure. Read More.
• The USF Alumni Association is celebrating the fastest growing Bull Businesses with the USF Fast 56 Awards Recipients on September 8.

"Optimists think that this is the best of all possible worlds; pessimists fear they are right."

-- J. Robert Oppenheimer, Father of the Atomic Bomb