Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Article	Citations
We cannot afford another lost year for food and climate action	78
A modest briefing	40
“He did not speak the ordinary language”: Memories of Oppie from a Manhattan Project physicist	20
Introduction: Why some renewable technologies will perish in – and others survive – the “Valley of Death”	18
An extended interview with Christopher Nolan, director of Oppenheimer	17
As measles outbreaks grow, the economic cost of anti-vaccine misinformation could become clearer	16
Interview with Susan Solomon: The healing of the ozone hole, and what else we can learn from atmospheric near-misses	15
Final thoughts: The fragile connection of safety and science in the geological disposal of radioactive waste	12
Constitutional mistakes of the past can tyrannize the present—But we can fix them	11
Correction	10
How we know Antarctica is rapidly losing more ice	9
To reassure Taiwan and deter China, the United States should learn from history	9
Nuclear-free NYC: How New Yorkers are disarming the legacies of the Manhattan Project	8
The impact of DOGE’s funding cuts on biomedical research, from the point of view of former NIH director Monica Bertagnolli	8
Russian nuclear weapons, 2025	8
“Sustainable” biomass: A paper tiger when it comes to reducing carbon emissions	8
The changing nuclear landscape in Europe	8
Interview with Sam West, founder of the Museum of Failure	7
Michael Mann, on how the second US withdrawal from the Paris agreement may alter the world’s climate change landscape	7
Nichols presents charges	7
“Like writing the biography of a ghost”—Interview with Jeff Goodell, author of The Heat Will Kill You First	7
Whence nuclear power in the 21st century?	6
RFK Jr.’s presidential ambitions may have fallen short, but his anti-vax beliefs are winning in many statehouses	6
Cyberstorm on the horizon: David Sanger on what two recent breaches reveal about modern warfare	6
Stopping the Clock on catastrophic AI risk	5

United Kingdom nuclear weapons, 2024	5
Nuclear weapons sharing, 2023	5
North Korea: A renewed flash point or continuity of the status quo?	4
Chinese nuclear weapons, 2025	4
Eighty years and 89 seconds: It’s time to fight against midnight	4
Oppenheimer’s tragedy—and ours	4
What happens when seeing is no longer believing?	4
Oppenheimer Replies	4
The path to compulsory voting	4
What the people want	4
Regenerative agriculture sequesters carbon—But that’s not the only benefit and shouldn’t be the only goal	4
Peak water in an era of climate change	3
Fiona Hill: What Putin (and Trump?) might do next, after Ukraine	3
Preserving the nuclear test ban after Russia revoked its CTBT ratification	3
Interview: Emerging military technology expert Paul Scharre on global power dynamics in the AI age	3
“The world has already ended”: Britt Wray on living with the horror and trauma of climate crisis	3
Introduction: Bringing the world’s food production in line with global climate goals	3
Glass and ceramic nuclear waste forms: The scientific battle	3
Putin’s psychology and nuclear weapons: The fundamentalist mindset	3
Interview: Lawrence Norden on US election security	3
Introduction: (Almost) everything you wanted to know about tipping points, but were too afraid to ask	3
“Expertise is not only not valued by this administration, it’s inherently suspicious to them”—Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman	3
How AI use in scholarly publishing threatens research integrity, lessens trust, and invites misinformation	3
The hard problem	3
AI misinformation detectors can’t save us from tyranny—at least not yet	3
North Korean nuclear weapons, 2024	2
Stolen billions from errant mouse clicks: Crypto requires new approaches to attack money-laundering	2
Laying the groundwork for long-duration energy storage	2
The war in Ukraine shows the game-changing effect of drones depends on the game	2
Introduction: Can we grow and burn our way out of climate change?	2
Will the Trump administration attempt to annex Greenland, Canada, or somewhere else? A prominent historian’s take	2
Will Israel strike Iran’s nuclear facilities with US support?	2
How to leverage positive tipping points for climate action	2
Environmental impacts of underground nuclear weapons testing	2
Good boy	2
The final countdown to site selection for Canada’s nuclear waste geologic repository	2
Nerds, ninjas, and neutrons: The story of the Nuclear Emergency Support Team	2
We need to act now to ensure global food security, and reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions	2
Reasonable doubt? How The Free Press covers climate change	2
Bulletin statement on the Energy Department’s Oppenheimer decision	2
French nuclear weapons, 2023	2
Oppenheimer: The man behind the movie	2
Microchips in humans: Consumer-friendly app, or new frontier in surveillance?	2
Why a mind-set of stubborn optimism about the climate crisis is needed, now more than ever	2
Interview with Sneha Revanur, “the Greta Thunberg of AI”	2
Nuclear testing in the 21st century—legacy, tensions, and risks	1
Interview with Eric Schlosser: Why we can’t trust the government’s figures about nuclear close calls	1
Algorithms of misperception: Managing nuclear risk in an AI world	1
How to deal with an AI near-miss: Look to the skies	1
Despite challenges, US-Russian nuclear arms control has its benefits	1

The horrors of nuclear weapons testing	1
Figuring out the most realistic projections for sea-level rise: Interview with glaciologist Rob DeConto	1
And the winners of our fiction contest are …	1
The Alps’ iconic glaciers are melting, but there’s still time to save the biggest	1
What do we really know about urban agriculture’s impact on people, places, and the planet?	1
Autocracy and the university in America today	1
Indian nuclear weapons, 2024	1
Why and how the debate about nuclear energy needs to be reframed for the future	1
Introduction: The brave new world of the high-tech surveillance state	1
Lessons learned in blood: Why we fail to use near-misses to prevent man-made disasters	1
Introduction: Near-misses, close calls, and early warnings	1
Pandemic risks: Are there some genetic experiments that simply should not be done?	1
To do or not to do: Pyongyang’s seventh nuclear test calculations	1
United States nuclear weapons, 2022	1
Climate change will surprise us, but so-called ‘tipping points’ may lead us astray	1
When burning wood to generate energy makes climate sense	1
Correction	1
Introduction: how to negotiate the China-Taiwan impasse	1
Why will some promising renewables technologies enter a “Valley of Death,” from which they never emerge?	1
Able Archer: How close of a call was it?	1
Oppenheimer—“A very mysterious and delphic character.” Interview with Kai Bird, author of American Prometheus	1
Introduction: Climate change—where are we now?	1
The ‘holy grail’ of pandemic preparedness: The search for a universal vaccine	1
Not your grandparents’ Cold War: Why America should emphasize economic rather than military strategies in its rivalry with China	1
Burning biomass: A Drax-tic idea, and bad for environmental justice	1
The Oppenheimer case: A study in the abuse of law	1
Countdown	1
Pakistan nuclear weapons, 2023	1
Harvard’s Graham Allison on the second Trump administration and the international security order	1
Book excerpt—Catastrophic climate change: Lessons from the dinosaurs	1
Sonia Shah on pandemics and pushback: Lessons from the COVID experience	1
New confidence-building measures can reduce tensions around subcritical tests	0
‘Fragile, impermanent things’: Joseph Tainter on what makes civilizations fall	0
The enduring risks and new challenges of nuclear materials: A special issue dedicated to Rodney C. Ewing’s scientific and policy contributions	0
Redefining the wildfire problem and scaling solutions to meet the challenge	0
United States nuclear weapons, 2024	0
Water and war	0
When glaciers calve: Large underwater tsunamis discovered at edge of Antarctica, likely affecting ice melt, climate and marine ecosystem	0
After the fall: Bitcoin’s true legacy may be blockchain technology	0
Remote monitoring: Verifying geographical arms limits	0
Russian nuclear weapons, 2023	0
The brightest light at the end of the tunnel	0
How demagogues destroy democracy: A step-by-step global guide	0
Introduction – Russia: what to expect next?	0
The United States isn’t prepared for another pandemic. Here’s what should happen	0
Wood-burning: Carbon hero or carbon villain. Q&A with forest modeling scientist Michael Ter-Mikaelian	0
Introduction: How to stop the next pandemic	0
The recent past and foreseeable future of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists : A conversation	0
The logic for US ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty	0
Looming climate doomsday demands creativity, ambition, and societal transformation	0
Chinese nuclear weapons, 2023	0
Is Ukraine still a possible flashpoint for a larger war?	0
Indian nuclear weapons, 2022	0
Sanctioning Russia’s oligarchs – with shame	0
How AI can slow the rise of antibiotic-resistant “superbugs”	0
The long view: Strategic arms control after the New START Treaty	0
The evolution of a conspiracy-minded culture: A historian’s view	0
Climate anxiety is not a mental health problem. But we should still treat it as one	0
Orville Schell on China vs. Taiwan in the Trump 2.0 era	0
North Korean nuclear weapons, 2022	0
How my Gen Z students learned to start worrying and dismantle the Bomb	0
Golden Dome and arms control: Impediment or opportunity?	0
Pandemics, public health, and popular support: What history can tell us	0
Sociotechnical risks posed by the geologic disposal of weapons plutonium	0
Creating a model democratic alternative to the surveillance state	0
Fusion power: The uncertain certainty	0
“H is For Hope” sounded a lot better than “D is For Despair”: Interview with Elizabeth Kolbert about climate change	0
French nuclear weapons, 2025	0
Fukushima: Lessons learned from a devastating “near-miss”	0
(Trying to) keep it cool: Vladimir Romanovsky on permafrost fieldwork	0
Diversification from Russian nuclear fuel requires market-oriented solutions	0
Will the next world war begin in orbit? Jonathan McDowell on strategic competition in space	0
Containment vs. confrontation: Trump 2.0 and a nuclear Iran	0
How Fukushima’s radioactive fallout in Tokyo was concealed from the public	0
The fuel supply quandary of fusion power reactors	0
The high-tech surveillance state is not restricted to China: Interview with Maya Wang of Human Rights Watch	0
A reality check and a way forward for the global governance of artificial intelligence	0
Six ways AI could cause the next big war, and why it probably won’t	0
Introduction: What you can do to turn back the hands of the Clock	0
Why what happened to Oppenheimer then is relevant now	0

On behalf of Lake Owakeela	0
Introduction: The unintended—and undermanaged—consequences of blockchain and cryptocurrency	0
Deterring a Chinese military attack on Taiwan	0
Distressing a system in distress: global nuclear order and Russia’s war against Ukraine	0
United States nuclear weapons, 2023	0
Apocalypse now? Mortality and mental health correlates of the Doomsday Clock	0
Disinformation as a multiplier of existential threat	0
A US history of not conducting cyber attacks	0
Decisions about AI will last decades. Researchers need better frameworks	0
How to avoid nuclear war with China	0
Introduction: Possible flashpoints for the next major conflict	0
AI in the information ecosystem and its impact on nuclear escalation	0
What a Cold War crisis over Taiwan could tell us about China-Russia relations today	0
After ITER: What China and others are doing in fusion. Interview with MIT’s Dennis Whyte	0
Climate change and water scarcity will increase risk of nuclear catastrophe in South Asia	0
Introduction: Securing elections, democracy, and the information ecosystem in a critical political year	0
Blockchain beyond cryptocurrency: A revolution in information management and international security	0
Praying for the ice (and snow, and water) as the climate changes	0
Introduction: How the Trump administration has upended international relations and increased existential risk	0
Building a nuclear off-ramp following the war in Ukraine	0
Obama’s science adviser on Trump’s science cuts: ”The system will starve”	0
Pakistan nuclear weapons, 2025	0
Correction	0
“Fusion is not a typical bet.” Interview with Silicon Valley venture capitalist Mark Coopersmith	0
Introduction: The hype, peril, and promise of artificial intelligence	0
Does wood bioenergy help or harm the climate?	0
How bitcoin makes burning fossil fuels more profitable than ever	0
An overview of the fusion landscape	0
Popping the chatbot hype balloon	0
Is the AMOC headed for a tipping point? Interview with Henk Dijkstra	0
The future of technology: Lessons from China	0
Use all the tools of the trade: Building a foundation for the next era of biosecurity	0
If you worry about humanity, you should be more scared of humans than of AI	0
Plant power: Burning biomass instead of coal can help fight climate change—but only if done right	0
At the brink: How Moscow’s “dirty bomb” disinformation campaign risked a NATO-Russia war in October 2022	0
Interview: Catherine Bertini on eliminating hunger in a changing climate	0
Bill McKibben explains what individuals can do to win the climate fight. Together	0
Russian nuclear weapons, 2024	0
What if potatoes grew on trees? An interview with the Breadfruit Institute’s Diane Ragone	0
Plasma weapons and deterrence in the age of emerging military technologies	0
Small and advanced nuclear reactors: Closing the fuel cycle?	0
The future of global health, without the United States	0
Will AI make us crazy?	0
An interview about the 2024 election with Harper Reed, chief technology officer for Obama 2012	0
The United States and stability in the Taiwan Strait	0
When the land runs out	0
The trouble with Taiwan	0
Does ‘net zero’ mean zero cows?	0
AI and atoms: How artificial intelligence is revolutionizing nuclear material production	0
Is scientific reticence hindering climate understanding?	0
Interview: California Congressman Ted Lieu on what you, as a citizen, can do about existential threats	0
Why people believe conspiracy theories: A political scientist’s view	0
‘He’s basically running a reality TV show’: Francis Gavin on Trump’s impact on the US, its allies, and the post-war world order	0
Renewable ammonia: The future of fuels?	0
Becoming a responsible ancestor	0
Carlos Nobre on tipping points in the Amazon rainforest	0
Where climate journalism is now: Interview with Emily Atkin, the fire behind the Heated climate newsletter	0
To protect democratic values, journalism must save itself	0
Charging ahead: Steven Chu, Nobel Prize-winner and former energy secretary, on today’s battery research—and more	0
Conditional restraint: Why the India-Pakistan Kargil War is not a case of nuclear deterrence	0
Russia’s economy is much more than a “big gas station.” Under sanctions, that’s now its biggest problem	0
Smart devices, cell phone cameras, social shaming and the loss of the right to a private self: Interview with Michel Paradis about the modern panopticon	0
Lessons from former arms control negotiators	0
United States nuclear weapons, 2026	0
The climate consequences of the US-Russia global realignment	0
Introduction: Fusion, the next big thing—again?	0
The entanglement of fusion energy research and bombs	0
Chinese nuclear weapons, 2024	0
“When it comes to Russia, it’s like living in a volcano”: An interview with Farida Rustamova, an independent reporter working in Putin’s Russia	0
What do ordinary Russians think? Interview with a Russian independent reporter	0
Greenland ice loss cannot be stopped—but it can and must be slowed	0
After Putin – what?	0
Ferreting out the truth about fusion: Interview with Bob Rosner	0
United States nuclear weapons, 2025	0
Division begets division in the age of algorithmic classification	0
Collateral damage: American civilian survivors of the 1945 Trinity test	0
Amplifying doubt: How Russian trolls leveraged pandemic uncertainty for strategic gain	0
The campaign volunteer who used AI to help swing Pakistan’s elections: Interview with Jibran Ilyas	0
How to counter health misinformation when it’s coming from the top	0
“It’s a different kind of world we’re living in now”: Interview with Francis Fukuyama	0