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
To reassure Taiwan and deter China, the United States should learn from history	9
How we know Antarctica is rapidly losing more ice	9
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
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
“Like writing the biography of a ghost”—Interview with Jeff Goodell, author of The Heat Will Kill You First	7
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
Cyberstorm on the horizon: David Sanger on what two recent breaches reveal about modern warfare	6
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
Nuclear weapons sharing, 2023	5

Stopping the Clock on catastrophic AI risk	5
United Kingdom nuclear weapons, 2024	5
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
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
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
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
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
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
Why will some promising renewables technologies enter a “Valley of Death,” from which they never emerge?	1
What do we really know about urban agriculture’s impact on people, places, and the planet?	1
Oppenheimer—“A very mysterious and delphic character.” Interview with Kai Bird, author of American Prometheus	1
Indian nuclear weapons, 2024	1
The ‘holy grail’ of pandemic preparedness: The search for a universal vaccine	1

Introduction: The brave new world of the high-tech surveillance state	1
Introduction: Near-misses, close calls, and early warnings	1
To do or not to do: Pyongyang’s seventh nuclear test calculations	1
United States nuclear weapons, 2022	1
Countdown	1
Pakistan nuclear weapons, 2023	1
Harvard’s Graham Allison on the second Trump administration and the international security order	1
Sonia Shah on pandemics and pushback: Lessons from the COVID experience	1
Introduction: how to negotiate the China-Taiwan impasse	1
Interview with Eric Schlosser: Why we can’t trust the government’s figures about nuclear close calls	1
Able Archer: How close of a call was it?	1
How to deal with an AI near-miss: Look to the skies	1
Introduction: Climate change—where are we now?	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
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
Autocracy and the university in America today	1
Why and how the debate about nuclear energy needs to be reframed for the future	1
Book excerpt—Catastrophic climate change: Lessons from the dinosaurs	1
Lessons learned in blood: Why we fail to use near-misses to prevent man-made disasters	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
Algorithms of misperception: Managing nuclear risk in an AI world	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
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
Fusion power: The uncertain certainty	0
Pandemics, public health, and popular support: What history can tell us	0
Creating a model democratic alternative to the surveillance state	0
The logic for US ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty	0
French nuclear weapons, 2025	0
Is Ukraine still a possible flashpoint for a larger war?	0
(Trying to) keep it cool: Vladimir Romanovsky on permafrost fieldwork	0
The fuel supply quandary of fusion power reactors	0
Sanctioning Russia’s oligarchs – with shame	0
The long view: Strategic arms control after the New START Treaty	0
Containment vs. confrontation: Trump 2.0 and a nuclear Iran	0
Six ways AI could cause the next big war, and why it probably won’t	0
Golden Dome and arms control: Impediment or opportunity?	0
Orville Schell on China vs. Taiwan in the Trump 2.0 era	0
The high-tech surveillance state is not restricted to China: Interview with Maya Wang of Human Rights Watch	0
Introduction: The unintended—and undermanaged—consequences of blockchain and cryptocurrency	0
“H is For Hope” sounded a lot better than “D is For Despair”: Interview with Elizabeth Kolbert about climate change	0
Sociotechnical risks posed by the geologic disposal of weapons plutonium	0
Why what happened to Oppenheimer then is relevant now	0
Apocalypse now? Mortality and mental health correlates of the Doomsday Clock	0
Diversification from Russian nuclear fuel requires market-oriented solutions	0
Fukushima: Lessons learned from a devastating “near-miss”	0
Distressing a system in distress: global nuclear order and Russia’s war against Ukraine	0
How Fukushima’s radioactive fallout in Tokyo was concealed from the public	0
Will the next world war begin in orbit? Jonathan McDowell on strategic competition in space	0
A US history of not conducting cyber attacks	0
How to avoid nuclear war with China	0
A reality check and a way forward for the global governance of artificial intelligence	0
Introduction: What you can do to turn back the hands of the Clock	0
AI in the information ecosystem and its impact on nuclear escalation	0
After ITER: What China and others are doing in fusion. Interview with MIT’s Dennis Whyte	0
Deterring a Chinese military attack on Taiwan	0
Introduction: Securing elections, democracy, and the information ecosystem in a critical political year	0
Praying for the ice (and snow, and water) as the climate changes	0
On behalf of Lake Owakeela	0
Disinformation as a multiplier of existential threat	0
Introduction: How the Trump administration has upended international relations and increased existential risk	0
Obama’s science adviser on Trump’s science cuts: ”The system will starve”	0
United States nuclear weapons, 2023	0
Does wood bioenergy help or harm the climate?	0
Introduction: Possible flashpoints for the next major conflict	0
Correction	0
Introduction: The hype, peril, and promise of artificial intelligence	0
Decisions about AI will last decades. Researchers need better frameworks	0
The future of technology: Lessons from China	0
An overview of the fusion landscape	0
Is the AMOC headed for a tipping point? Interview with Henk Dijkstra	0
What a Cold War crisis over Taiwan could tell us about China-Russia relations today	0
Interview: Catherine Bertini on eliminating hunger in a changing climate	0

Climate change and water scarcity will increase risk of nuclear catastrophe in South Asia	0
Blockchain beyond cryptocurrency: A revolution in information management and international security	0
Plant power: Burning biomass instead of coal can help fight climate change—but only if done right	0
Plasma weapons and deterrence in the age of emerging military technologies	0
Pakistan nuclear weapons, 2025	0
Building a nuclear off-ramp following the war in Ukraine	0
Russian nuclear weapons, 2024	0
Will AI make us crazy?	0
How bitcoin makes burning fossil fuels more profitable than ever	0
“Fusion is not a typical bet.” Interview with Silicon Valley venture capitalist Mark Coopersmith	0
Small and advanced nuclear reactors: Closing the fuel cycle?	0
The trouble with Taiwan	0
Use all the tools of the trade: Building a foundation for the next era of biosecurity	0
Popping the chatbot hype balloon	0
The United States and stability in the Taiwan Strait	0
At the brink: How Moscow’s “dirty bomb” disinformation campaign risked a NATO-Russia war in October 2022	0
If you worry about humanity, you should be more scared of humans than of AI	0
AI and atoms: How artificial intelligence is revolutionizing nuclear material production	0
Interview: California Congressman Ted Lieu on what you, as a citizen, can do about existential threats	0
What if potatoes grew on trees? An interview with the Breadfruit Institute’s Diane Ragone	0
Bill McKibben explains what individuals can do to win the climate fight. Together	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
Becoming a responsible ancestor	0
An interview about the 2024 election with Harper Reed, chief technology officer for Obama 2012	0
Carlos Nobre on tipping points in the Amazon rainforest	0
To protect democratic values, journalism must save itself	0
The future of global health, without the United States	0
Does ‘net zero’ mean zero cows?	0
Conditional restraint: Why the India-Pakistan Kargil War is not a case of nuclear deterrence	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
When the land runs out	0
Why people believe conspiracy theories: A political scientist’s view	0
Lessons from former arms control negotiators	0
The climate consequences of the US-Russia global realignment	0
Is scientific reticence hindering climate understanding?	0
What do ordinary Russians think? Interview with a Russian independent reporter	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
Renewable ammonia: The future of fuels?	0
After Putin – what?	0
United States nuclear weapons, 2025	0
Where climate journalism is now: Interview with Emily Atkin, the fire behind the Heated climate newsletter	0
Division begets division in the age of algorithmic classification	0
“It’s a different kind of world we’re living in now”: Interview with Francis Fukuyama	0
Charging ahead: Steven Chu, Nobel Prize-winner and former energy secretary, on today’s battery research—and more	0
Russia’s economy is much more than a “big gas station.” Under sanctions, that’s now its biggest problem	0
The campaign volunteer who used AI to help swing Pakistan’s elections: Interview with Jibran Ilyas	0
Redefining the wildfire problem and scaling solutions to meet the challenge	0
Introduction: Fusion, the next big thing—again?	0
United States nuclear weapons, 2026	0
‘Fragile, impermanent things’: Joseph Tainter on what makes civilizations fall	0
When glaciers calve: Large underwater tsunamis discovered at edge of Antarctica, likely affecting ice melt, climate and marine ecosystem	0
Greenland ice loss cannot be stopped—but it can and must be slowed	0
Chinese nuclear weapons, 2024	0
United States nuclear weapons, 2024	0
The brightest light at the end of the tunnel	0
Collateral damage: American civilian survivors of the 1945 Trinity test	0
Ferreting out the truth about fusion: Interview with Bob Rosner	0
Remote monitoring: Verifying geographical arms limits	0
How to counter health misinformation when it’s coming from the top	0
Amplifying doubt: How Russian trolls leveraged pandemic uncertainty for strategic gain	0
Introduction – Russia: what to expect next?	0
Wood-burning: Carbon hero or carbon villain. Q&A with forest modeling scientist Michael Ter-Mikaelian	0
The enduring risks and new challenges of nuclear materials: A special issue dedicated to Rodney C. Ewing’s scientific and policy contributions	0
New confidence-building measures can reduce tensions around subcritical tests	0
The recent past and foreseeable future of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists : A conversation	0
Looming climate doomsday demands creativity, ambition, and societal transformation	0
After the fall: Bitcoin’s true legacy may be blockchain technology	0
Chinese nuclear weapons, 2023	0
Indian nuclear weapons, 2022	0
Water and war	0
How demagogues destroy democracy: A step-by-step global guide	0
How AI can slow the rise of antibiotic-resistant “superbugs”	0
The evolution of a conspiracy-minded culture: A historian’s view	0
Russian nuclear weapons, 2023	0
How my Gen Z students learned to start worrying and dismantle the Bomb	0
Introduction: How to stop the next pandemic	0
Climate anxiety is not a mental health problem. But we should still treat it as one	0
North Korean nuclear weapons, 2022	0
The United States isn’t prepared for another pandemic. Here’s what should happen	0