Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Article	Citations
Puzzling out the Iraqi biological weapons program	46
We cannot afford another lost year for food and climate action	29
“He did not speak the ordinary language”: Memories of Oppie from a Manhattan Project physicist	27
Introduction: Why some renewable technologies will perish in – and others survive – the “Valley of Death”	16
A perspective on UNSCOM culture	15
An extended interview with Christopher Nolan, director of Oppenheimer	13
Machine learning improves satellite imagery analysis of North Korean nuclear activity	12
Correction	12
Interview with Susan Solomon: The healing of the ozone hole, and what else we can learn from atmospheric near-misses	11
To reassure Taiwan and deter China, the United States should learn from history	9
How we know Antarctica is rapidly losing more ice	9
Constitutional mistakes of the past can tyrannize the present—But we can fix them	8
“Sustainable” biomass: A paper tiger when it comes to reducing carbon emissions	8
Final thoughts: The fragile connection of safety and science in the geological disposal of radioactive waste	8
RFK Jr.’s presidential ambitions may have fallen short, but his anti-vax beliefs are winning in many statehouses	7
Nichols presents charges	7
Interview with Sam West, founder of the Museum of Failure	7
Nuclear-free NYC: How New Yorkers are disarming the legacies of the Manhattan Project	7
“Like writing the biography of a ghost”—Interview with Jeff Goodell, author of The Heat Will Kill You First	7
Nuclear weapons sharing, 2023	6
Can small modular reactors help mitigate climate change?	6
United Kingdom nuclear weapons, 2024	6
The path to compulsory voting	5
Oppenheimer’s tragedy—and ours	5
Chinese nuclear weapons, 2025	5

Nuclear fear: The irrational obstacle to real climate action	4
Putin’s psychology and nuclear weapons: The fundamentalist mindset	4
Oppenheimer Replies	4
“The world has already ended”: Britt Wray on living with the horror and trauma of climate crisis	4
Cis-lunar space and the security dilemma	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	4
AI misinformation detectors can’t save us from tyranny—at least not yet	3
North Korean nuclear weapons, 2024	3
Interview: Lawrence Norden on US election security	3
Peak water in an era of climate change	3
Oppenheimer: The man behind the movie	2
Introduction: (Almost) everything you wanted to know about tipping points, but were too afraid to ask	2
Introduction: Bringing the world’s food production in line with global climate goals	2
Environmental impacts of underground nuclear weapons testing	2
How the renewables revolution can move from catchphrase to reality	2
Russian nuclear weapons, 2022	2
Glass and ceramic nuclear waste forms: The scientific battle	2
The five things that must happen for renewables to fit into the grid: Interview with Greg Nemet	2
Introduction: Can we make overspending on the military politically costly?	2
Bulletin statement on the Energy Department’s Oppenheimer decision	2
Preserving the nuclear test ban after Russia revoked its CTBT ratification	2
Stolen billions from errant mouse clicks: Crypto requires new approaches to attack money-laundering	2
French nuclear weapons, 2023	2
Laying the groundwork for long-duration energy storage	1
UNSCOM: A successful experiment in disarmament	1
Not your grandparents’ Cold War: Why America should emphasize economic rather than military strategies in its rivalry with China	1
Do Germany and the Netherlands want to say goodbye to US nuclear weapons?	1
Chinese nuclear weapons, 2021	1
Introduction: Near-misses, close calls, and early warnings	1
Despite challenges, US-Russian nuclear arms control has its benefits	1
Why a mind-set of stubborn optimism about the climate crisis is needed, now more than ever	1
The final countdown to site selection for Canada’s nuclear waste geologic repository	1
The war in Ukraine shows the game-changing effect of drones depends on the game	1
United States nuclear weapons, 2022	1
To do or not to do: Pyongyang’s seventh nuclear test calculations	1
Burning biomass: A Drax-tic idea, and bad for environmental justice	1
Nuclear testing in the 21st century—legacy, tensions, and risks	1
What do we really know about urban agriculture’s impact on people, places, and the planet?	1
Introduction: How to dial back a disinformation dystopia	1
Avoiding an unintentional space war: Lessons from Cold War nuclear diplomacy	1
Nerds, ninjas, and neutrons: The story of the Nuclear Emergency Support Team	1
Introduction: Can we grow and burn our way out of climate change?	1
Microchips in humans: Consumer-friendly app, or new frontier in surveillance?	1
How to leverage positive tipping points for climate action	1
How countries can build on UNSCOM’s legacy to solve today’s problems	1
Able Archer: How close of a call was it?	1
Pakistani nuclear weapons, 2021	1
Indian nuclear weapons, 2024	1
Introduction: Climate change—where are we now?	1

The Oppenheimer case: A study in the abuse of law	1
We need to act now to ensure global food security, and reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions	1
UNSCOM’s work to uncover Iraq’s illicit biological weapons program: A primer	1
Interview with Sneha Revanur, “the Greta Thunberg of AI”	1
Greenland ice loss cannot be stopped—but it can and must be slowed	0
One if by invasion, two if by coercion: US military capacity to protect Taiwan from China	0
The entanglement of fusion energy research and bombs	0
Long-duration energy storage for reliable renewable electricity: The realistic possibilities	0
Some long-term effects of UNSCOM: People are important, or, therein lies much of the problem	0
Introduction: UNSCOM and the future of WMD verification	0
Legal and political myths of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons	0
Redefining the wildfire problem and scaling solutions to meet the challenge	0
Fusion power: The uncertain certainty	0
Why will some promising renewables technologies enter a “Valley of Death,” from which they never emerge?	0
Remote monitoring: Verifying geographical arms limits	0
Will AI make us crazy?	0
What if potatoes grew on trees? An interview with the Breadfruit Institute’s Diane Ragone	0
How Fukushima’s radioactive fallout in Tokyo was concealed from the public	0
Lessons to be drawn from the search for Iraqi WMD	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
Sanctioning Russia’s oligarchs – with shame	0
(Trying to) keep it cool: Vladimir Romanovsky on permafrost fieldwork	0
North Korean nuclear weapons, 2021	0
Israeli nuclear weapons, 2021	0
Nuclear energy: A distraction on the road to climate solutions	0
Interview: Diane Randall, director general of the Friends Committee on National Legislation, discusses restraining the US defense budget	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
How bitcoin makes burning fossil fuels more profitable than ever	0
Opportunities for US-Russian collaboration on the safe disposal of nuclear waste	0
Interview with Eric Schlosser: Why we can’t trust the government’s figures about nuclear close calls	0
Apocalypse now? Mortality and mental health correlates of the Doomsday Clock	0
Does ‘net zero’ mean zero cows?	0
How to avoid nuclear war with China	0
Global and regional confrontation in South and Southeast Asia	0
Why the final frontier should not become the final battleground	0
Plant power: Burning biomass instead of coal can help fight climate change—but only if done right	0
Introduction: What you can do to turn back the hands of the Clock	0
Indian nuclear weapons, 2022	0
Is nuclear power sustainable in a carbon-free world? The case of Sweden	0
How to deal with an AI near-miss: Look to the skies	0
Interview with Graham Allison: Are the United States and China charging into Thucydides’s trap?	0
An overview of the fusion landscape	0
If you worry about humanity, you should be more scared of humans than of AI	0
Correction	0
Trust but verify: How to get there by using next-generation nuclear verification and warhead dismantlement techniques	0
The complicating role of the private sector in space	0
What a Cold War crisis over Taiwan could tell us about China-Russia relations today	0
Renewable ammonia: The future of fuels?	0
Sociotechnical risks posed by the geologic disposal of weapons plutonium	0
‘Fragile, impermanent things’: Joseph Tainter on what makes civilizations fall	0
Perspectives on UNSCOM and UNMOVIC: An interview with Nikita Smidovich	0
Alan Miller: How the News Literacy Project teaches schoolchildren (and adults) to dismiss and debunk internet disinformation	0
The United States and stability in the Taiwan Strait	0
Water and war	0
“H is For Hope” sounded a lot better than “D is For Despair”: Interview with Elizabeth Kolbert about climate change	0
The long view: Strategic arms control after the New START Treaty	0
Climate change and water scarcity will increase risk of nuclear catastrophe in South Asia	0
A new transatlantic division of labor could save billions every year!	0
A China-US war in space: The after-action report	0
It’s time to reignite US-Russia cooperation in space. Nuclear power may hold the key	0
Correction	0
Interview: California Congressman Ted Lieu on what you, as a citizen, can do about existential threats	0
Introduction: Fusion, the next big thing—again?	0
The Alps’ iconic glaciers are melting, but there’s still time to save the biggest	0
Chinese nuclear weapons, 2023	0
North Korean nuclear weapons, 2022	0
Climate anxiety is not a mental health problem. But we should still treat it as one	0
Diversification from Russian nuclear fuel requires market-oriented solutions	0
Why President Biden needs to revisit—and reduce—his defense budget	0
After Putin – what?	0
Creating a model democratic alternative to the surveillance state	0
Does wood bioenergy help or harm the climate?	0
Why what happened to Oppenheimer then is relevant now	0
Distressing a system in distress: global nuclear order and Russia’s war against Ukraine	0
Deterring a Chinese military attack on Taiwan	0
Offshore wind: Poised for the big time. An interview with Anthony Kirincich	0
Fukushima: Lessons learned from a devastating “near-miss”	0
United States nuclear weapons, 2024	0
Russian nuclear weapons, 2024	0
How demagogues destroy democracy: A step-by-step global guide	0

To protect democratic values, journalism must save itself	0
Exchanging atoms for influence: Competition in Southeast Asia’s nuclear market	0
When glaciers calve: Large underwater tsunamis discovered at edge of Antarctica, likely affecting ice melt, climate and marine ecosystem	0
The United States needs to cut military spending and shift money to two pressing threats: Pandemics and climate change	0
United States nuclear weapons, 2025	0
Climate change will surprise us, but so-called ‘tipping points’ may lead us astray	0
Figuring out the most realistic projections for sea-level rise: Interview with glaciologist Rob DeConto	0
Interview: Catherine Bertini on eliminating hunger in a changing climate	0
Countries have more than 100 laws on the books to combat misinformation. How well do they work?	0
Bill McKibben explains what individuals can do to win the climate fight. Together	0
Ferreting out the truth about fusion: Interview with Bob Rosner	0
Book excerpt—Catastrophic climate change: Lessons from the dinosaurs	0
Sure, deter China—but manage risk with North Korea, too	0
After ITER: What China and others are doing in fusion. Interview with MIT’s Dennis Whyte	0
Charging ahead: Steven Chu, Nobel Prize-winner and former energy secretary, on today’s battery research—and more	0
Popping the chatbot hype balloon	0
Introduction: The brave new world of the high-tech surveillance state	0
Monitoring Iraq’s dual-use capabilities: An interview with Gabriele Kraatz-Wadsack	0
A reality check and a way forward for the global governance of artificial intelligence	0
Interview: Tom Collina of the Ploughshares Fund on the politics of defense spending	0
“Fusion is not a typical bet.” Interview with Silicon Valley venture capitalist Mark Coopersmith	0
Praying for the ice (and snow, and water) as the climate changes	0
Collateral damage: American civilian survivors of the 1945 Trinity test	0
When burning wood to generate energy makes climate sense	0
The enduring risks and new challenges of nuclear materials: A special issue dedicated to Rodney C. Ewing’s scientific and policy contributions	0
Is scientific reticence hindering climate understanding?	0
Russia’s economy is much more than a “big gas station.” Under sanctions, that’s now its biggest problem	0
Interview: Robert Latiff on the worsening international security situation in space	0
Conditional restraint: Why the India-Pakistan Kargil War is not a case of nuclear deterrence	0
United Kingdom nuclear weapons, 2021	0
Meme warfare: AI countermeasures to disinformation should focus on popular, not perfect, fakes	0
Pakistan nuclear weapons, 2023	0
Introduction: Securing elections, democracy, and the information ecosystem in a critical political year	0
I gave my baby tooth to science: Project Sunshine’s role in the Limited Test Ban Treaty and cutting-edge pollution research	0
Blockchain beyond cryptocurrency: A revolution in information management and international security	0
China and the United States: It’s a Cold War, but don’t panic	0
Carlos Nobre on tipping points in the Amazon rainforest	0
Introduction: The hype, peril, and promise of artificial intelligence	0
What do ordinary Russians think? Interview with a Russian independent reporter	0
Russian nuclear weapons, 2023	0
Where climate journalism is now: Interview with Emily Atkin, the fire behind the Heated climate newsletter	0
Introduction – Russia: what to expect next?	0
How my Gen Z students learned to start worrying and dismantle the Bomb	0
The history of nuclear power’s imagined future: Plutonium’s journey from asset to waste	0
A US history of not conducting cyber attacks	0
An interview about the 2024 election with Harper Reed, chief technology officer for Obama 2012	0
Is the AMOC headed for a tipping point? Interview with Henk Dijkstra	0
Lessons learned in blood: Why we fail to use near-misses to prevent man-made disasters	0
“It’s a different kind of world we’re living in now”: Interview with Francis Fukuyama	0
The future of technology: Lessons from China	0
Wood-burning: Carbon hero or carbon villain. Q&A with forest modeling scientist Michael Ter-Mikaelian	0
Oppenheimer—“A very mysterious and delphic character.” Interview with Kai Bird, author of American Prometheus	0
Small and advanced nuclear reactors: Closing the fuel cycle?	0
Introduction: The unintended—and undermanaged—consequences of blockchain and cryptocurrency	0
Introduction: Can the United States and China co-exist in the 21st century? Will they?	0
Becoming a responsible ancestor	0
Introduction: how to negotiate the China-Taiwan impasse	0
The horrors of nuclear weapons testing	0
The high-tech surveillance state is not restricted to China: Interview with Maya Wang of Human Rights Watch	0
The fuel supply quandary of fusion power reactors	0
After the fall: Bitcoin’s true legacy may be blockchain technology	0
The Swiss cheese model for mitigating online misinformation	0
Between two wars	0
The campaign volunteer who used AI to help swing Pakistan’s elections: Interview with Jibran Ilyas	0
The logic for US ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty	0
New confidence-building measures can reduce tensions around subcritical tests	0
Chinese nuclear weapons, 2024	0
Instead of reforming Facebook, should we just build something else?	0
The trouble with Taiwan	0
United States nuclear weapons, 2023	0
Space Force: Fact or fiction?	0
Building a nuclear off-ramp following the war in Ukraine	0
AI and atoms: How artificial intelligence is revolutionizing nuclear material production	0