Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Article	Citations
We cannot afford another lost year for food and climate action	66
“He did not speak the ordinary language”: Memories of Oppie from a Manhattan Project physicist	35
Introduction: Why some renewable technologies will perish in – and others survive – the “Valley of Death”	17
An extended interview with Christopher Nolan, director of Oppenheimer	16
Russian nuclear weapons, 2025	13
Machine learning improves satellite imagery analysis of North Korean nuclear activity	13
Correction	12
“Sustainable” biomass: A paper tiger when it comes to reducing carbon emissions	12
Interview with Susan Solomon: The healing of the ozone hole, and what else we can learn from atmospheric near-misses	9
To reassure Taiwan and deter China, the United States should learn from history	8
Constitutional mistakes of the past can tyrannize the present—But we can fix them	8
Final thoughts: The fragile connection of safety and science in the geological disposal of radioactive waste	8
The impact of DOGE’s funding cuts on biomedical research, from the point of view of former NIH director Monica Bertagnolli	7
“Like writing the biography of a ghost”—Interview with Jeff Goodell, author of The Heat Will Kill You First	7
Nuclear-free NYC: How New Yorkers are disarming the legacies of the Manhattan Project	7
RFK Jr.’s presidential ambitions may have fallen short, but his anti-vax beliefs are winning in many statehouses	7
How we know Antarctica is rapidly losing more ice	7
Nichols presents charges	7
Interview with Sam West, founder of the Museum of Failure	7
Cyberstorm on the horizon: David Sanger on what two recent breaches reveal about modern warfare	6
Nuclear weapons sharing, 2023	6
Michael Mann, on how the second US withdrawal from the Paris agreement may alter the world’s climate change landscape	6
The path to compulsory voting	6
United Kingdom nuclear weapons, 2024	6
Oppenheimer’s tragedy—and ours	6

North Korea: A renewed flash point or continuity of the status quo?	5
Chinese nuclear weapons, 2025	5
Nuclear fear: The irrational obstacle to real climate action	4
Cis-lunar space and the security dilemma	4
Oppenheimer Replies	4
Regenerative agriculture sequesters carbon—But that’s not the only benefit and shouldn’t be the only goal	4
Interview: Emerging military technology expert Paul Scharre on global power dynamics in the AI age	3
AI misinformation detectors can’t save us from tyranny—at least not yet	3
Peak water in an era of climate change	3
“Expertise is not only not valued by this administration, it’s inherently suspicious to them”—Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman	3
Preserving the nuclear test ban after Russia revoked its CTBT ratification	3
Russian nuclear weapons, 2022	3
“The world has already ended”: Britt Wray on living with the horror and trauma of climate crisis	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
Introduction: Bringing the world’s food production in line with global climate goals	3
Fiona Hill: What Putin (and Trump?) might do next, after Ukraine	3
How the renewables revolution can move from catchphrase to reality	2
How to leverage positive tipping points for climate action	2
Introduction: Can we grow and burn our way out of climate change?	2
Oppenheimer: The man behind the movie	2
Environmental impacts of underground nuclear weapons testing	2
The final countdown to site selection for Canada’s nuclear waste geologic repository	2
Interview with Sneha Revanur, “the Greta Thunberg of AI”	2
Will the Trump administration attempt to annex Greenland, Canada, or somewhere else? A prominent historian’s take	2
French nuclear weapons, 2023	2
Bulletin statement on the Energy Department’s Oppenheimer decision	2
Stolen billions from errant mouse clicks: Crypto requires new approaches to attack money-laundering	2
The war in Ukraine shows the game-changing effect of drones depends on the game	2
Microchips in humans: Consumer-friendly app, or new frontier in surveillance?	2
Laying the groundwork for long-duration energy storage	2
North Korean nuclear weapons, 2024	2
The five things that must happen for renewables to fit into the grid: Interview with Greg Nemet	2
United States nuclear weapons, 2022	1
Able Archer: How close of a call was it?	1
Climate change will surprise us, but so-called ‘tipping points’ may lead us astray	1
Introduction: how to negotiate the China-Taiwan impasse	1
Introduction: Near-misses, close calls, and early warnings	1
Correction	1
What do we really know about urban agriculture’s impact on people, places, and the planet?	1
Interview with Eric Schlosser: Why we can’t trust the government’s figures about nuclear close calls	1
Indian nuclear weapons, 2024	1
Oppenheimer—“A very mysterious and delphic character.” Interview with Kai Bird, author of American Prometheus	1
Sonia Shah on pandemics and pushback: Lessons from the COVID experience	1
Global and regional confrontation in South and Southeast Asia	1
Burning biomass: A Drax-tic idea, and bad for environmental justice	1
Why a mind-set of stubborn optimism about the climate crisis is needed, now more than ever	1
Nerds, ninjas, and neutrons: The story of the Nuclear Emergency Support Team	1

Book excerpt—Catastrophic climate change: Lessons from the dinosaurs	1
Autocracy and the university in America today	1
Nuclear testing in the 21st century—legacy, tensions, and risks	1
Pandemic risks: Are there some genetic experiments that simply should not be done?	1
Introduction: Climate change—where are we now?	1
Exchanging atoms for influence: Competition in Southeast Asia’s nuclear market	1
Not your grandparents’ Cold War: Why America should emphasize economic rather than military strategies in its rivalry with China	1
Trust but verify: How to get there by using next-generation nuclear verification and warhead dismantlement techniques	1
Figuring out the most realistic projections for sea-level rise: Interview with glaciologist Rob DeConto	1
To do or not to do: Pyongyang’s seventh nuclear test calculations	1
We need to act now to ensure global food security, and reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions	1
Despite challenges, US-Russian nuclear arms control has its benefits	1
Introduction: The brave new world of the high-tech surveillance state	1
Why will some promising renewables technologies enter a “Valley of Death,” from which they never emerge?	1
Chinese nuclear weapons, 2021	1
Lessons learned in blood: Why we fail to use near-misses to prevent man-made disasters	1
The Oppenheimer case: A study in the abuse of law	1
How to deal with an AI near-miss: Look to the skies	1
Is nuclear power sustainable in a carbon-free world? The case of Sweden	1
The horrors of nuclear weapons testing	1
Will Israel strike Iran’s nuclear facilities with US support?	1
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
How bitcoin makes burning fossil fuels more profitable than ever	0
Does ‘net zero’ mean zero cows?	0
Harvard’s Graham Allison on the second Trump administration and the international security order	0
How AI can slow the rise of antibiotic-resistant “superbugs”	0
Praying for the ice (and snow, and water) as the climate changes	0
Russia’s economy is much more than a “big gas station.” Under sanctions, that’s now its biggest problem	0
After the fall: Bitcoin’s true legacy may be blockchain technology	0
Pakistan nuclear weapons, 2023	0
Climate change and water scarcity will increase risk of nuclear catastrophe in South Asia	0
Creating a model democratic alternative to the surveillance state	0
Blockchain beyond cryptocurrency: A revolution in information management and international security	0
An overview of the fusion landscape	0
China and the United States: It’s a Cold War, but don’t panic	0
What a Cold War crisis over Taiwan could tell us about China-Russia relations today	0
Charging ahead: Steven Chu, Nobel Prize-winner and former energy secretary, on today’s battery research—and more	0
Russian nuclear weapons, 2024	0
Building a nuclear off-ramp following the war in Ukraine	0
Small and advanced nuclear reactors: Closing the fuel cycle?	0
Introduction: How to stop the next pandemic	0
The high-tech surveillance state is not restricted to China: Interview with Maya Wang of Human Rights Watch	0
Orville Schell on China vs. Taiwan in the Trump 2.0 era	0
To protect democratic values, journalism must save itself	0
Why the final frontier should not become the final battleground	0
Popping the chatbot hype balloon	0
Interview: California Congressman Ted Lieu on what you, as a citizen, can do about existential threats	0
Diversification from Russian nuclear fuel requires market-oriented solutions	0
Why what happened to Oppenheimer then is relevant now	0
The campaign volunteer who used AI to help swing Pakistan’s elections: Interview with Jibran Ilyas	0
Where climate journalism is now: Interview with Emily Atkin, the fire behind the Heated climate newsletter	0
The United States and stability in the Taiwan Strait	0
Plant power: Burning biomass instead of coal can help fight climate change—but only if done right	0
Russian nuclear weapons, 2023	0
Israeli nuclear weapons, 2021	0
Redefining the wildfire problem and scaling solutions to meet the challenge	0
The future of global health, without the United States	0
After ITER: What China and others are doing in fusion. Interview with MIT’s Dennis Whyte	0
Will the next world war begin in orbit? Jonathan McDowell on strategic competition in space	0
A reality check and a way forward for the global governance of artificial intelligence	0
Chinese nuclear weapons, 2023	0
I gave my baby tooth to science: Project Sunshine’s role in the Limited Test Ban Treaty and cutting-edge pollution research	0
Does wood bioenergy help or harm the climate?	0
Introduction: What you can do to turn back the hands of the Clock	0
Introduction: Possible flashpoints for the next major conflict	0
Correction	0
Obama’s science adviser on Trump’s science cuts: ”The system will starve”	0
Fusion power: The uncertain certainty	0
How demagogues destroy democracy: A step-by-step global guide	0
The ‘holy grail’ of pandemic preparedness: The search for a universal vaccine	0
Pandemics, public health, and popular support: What history can tell us	0
Introduction: The hype, peril, and promise of artificial intelligence	0
Introduction: Fusion, the next big thing—again?	0
Deterring a Chinese military attack on Taiwan	0
One if by invasion, two if by coercion: US military capacity to protect Taiwan from China	0
Introduction: How the Trump administration has upended international relations and increased existential risk	0
The trouble with Taiwan	0
Pakistan nuclear weapons, 2025	0
(Trying to) keep it cool: Vladimir Romanovsky on permafrost fieldwork	0
The long view: Strategic arms control after the New START Treaty	0

After Putin – what?	0
Golden Dome and arms control: Impediment or opportunity?	0
Containment vs. confrontation: Trump 2.0 and a nuclear Iran	0
Sociotechnical risks posed by the geologic disposal of weapons plutonium	0
French nuclear weapons, 2025	0
Greenland ice loss cannot be stopped—but it can and must be slowed	0
Interview with Graham Allison: Are the United States and China charging into Thucydides’s trap?	0
Chinese nuclear weapons, 2024	0
How to avoid nuclear war with China	0
United States nuclear weapons, 2024	0
Fukushima: Lessons learned from a devastating “near-miss”	0
Apocalypse now? Mortality and mental health correlates of the Doomsday Clock	0
How Fukushima’s radioactive fallout in Tokyo was concealed from the public	0
Distressing a system in distress: global nuclear order and Russia’s war against Ukraine	0
When glaciers calve: Large underwater tsunamis discovered at edge of Antarctica, likely affecting ice melt, climate and marine ecosystem	0
Is scientific reticence hindering climate understanding?	0
AI and atoms: How artificial intelligence is revolutionizing nuclear material production	0
Six ways AI could cause the next big war, and why it probably won’t	0
United States nuclear weapons, 2023	0
Introduction – Russia: what to expect next?	0
Introduction: The unintended—and undermanaged—consequences of blockchain and cryptocurrency	0
Amplifying doubt: How Russian trolls leveraged pandemic uncertainty for strategic gain	0
Space Force: Fact or fiction?	0
Offshore wind: Poised for the big time. An interview with Anthony Kirincich	0
Introduction: Can the United States and China co-exist in the 21st century? Will they?	0
“H is For Hope” sounded a lot better than “D is For Despair”: Interview with Elizabeth Kolbert about climate change	0
A US history of not conducting cyber attacks	0
“It’s a different kind of world we’re living in now”: Interview with Francis Fukuyama	0
What do ordinary Russians think? Interview with a Russian independent reporter	0
The future of technology: Lessons from China	0
Nuclear energy: A distraction on the road to climate solutions	0
Conditional restraint: Why the India-Pakistan Kargil War is not a case of nuclear deterrence	0
The climate consequences of the US-Russia global realignment	0
Sanctioning Russia’s oligarchs – with shame	0
An interview about the 2024 election with Harper Reed, chief technology officer for Obama 2012	0
The Alps’ iconic glaciers are melting, but there’s still time to save the biggest	0
The entanglement of fusion energy research and bombs	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
New confidence-building measures can reduce tensions around subcritical tests	0
Ferreting out the truth about fusion: Interview with Bob Rosner	0
Interview: Robert Latiff on the worsening international security situation in space	0
Lessons from former arms control negotiators	0
What if potatoes grew on trees? An interview with the Breadfruit Institute’s Diane Ragone	0
The fuel supply quandary of fusion power reactors	0
When burning wood to generate energy makes climate sense	0
The complicating role of the private sector in space	0
North Korean nuclear weapons, 2022	0
A China-US war in space: The after-action report	0
‘Fragile, impermanent things’: Joseph Tainter on what makes civilizations fall	0
“Fusion is not a typical bet.” Interview with Silicon Valley venture capitalist Mark Coopersmith	0
Becoming a responsible ancestor	0
Sure, deter China—but manage risk with North Korea, too	0
How my Gen Z students learned to start worrying and dismantle the Bomb	0
Wood-burning: Carbon hero or carbon villain. Q&A with forest modeling scientist Michael Ter-Mikaelian	0
Collateral damage: American civilian survivors of the 1945 Trinity test	0
Interview: Catherine Bertini on eliminating hunger in a changing climate	0
Indian nuclear weapons, 2022	0
The enduring risks and new challenges of nuclear materials: A special issue dedicated to Rodney C. Ewing’s scientific and policy contributions	0
Remote monitoring: Verifying geographical arms limits	0
Will AI make us crazy?	0
Long-duration energy storage for reliable renewable electricity: The realistic possibilities	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
Is Ukraine still a possible flashpoint for a larger war?	0
Water and war	0
Carlos Nobre on tipping points in the Amazon rainforest	0
United States nuclear weapons, 2025	0
If you worry about humanity, you should be more scared of humans than of AI	0
Renewable ammonia: The future of fuels?	0
Is the AMOC headed for a tipping point? Interview with Henk Dijkstra	0
Climate anxiety is not a mental health problem. But we should still treat it as one	0
Bill McKibben explains what individuals can do to win the climate fight. Together	0
The logic for US ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty	0
Introduction: Securing elections, democracy, and the information ecosystem in a critical political year	0