Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Article	Citations
The war in Ukraine shows the game-changing effect of drones depends on the game	26
The Swiss cheese model for mitigating online misinformation	24
Does wood bioenergy help or harm the climate?	22
United States nuclear weapons, 2021	15
Countries have more than 100 laws on the books to combat misinformation. How well do they work?	13
Russian nuclear weapons, 2021	12
United States nuclear weapons, 2023	11
Meme warfare: AI countermeasures to disinformation should focus on popular, not perfect, fakes	9
North Korean nuclear weapons, 2021	9
Distressing a system in distress: global nuclear order and Russia’s war against Ukraine	8
Chinese nuclear forces, 2020	8
How to protect the world from ultra-targeted biological weapons	8
Do Germany and the Netherlands want to say goodbye to US nuclear weapons?	8
North Korean nuclear weapons, 2022	8
Russian nuclear weapons, 2022	8
Russian nuclear weapons, 2023	7
Can small modular reactors help mitigate climate change?	7
Chinese nuclear weapons, 2023	6
Pakistani nuclear weapons, 2021	6
Israeli nuclear weapons, 2021	6
“Sustainable” biomass: A paper tiger when it comes to reducing carbon emissions	6
Plant power: Burning biomass instead of coal can help fight climate change—but only if done right	6
Indian nuclear weapons, 2022	5
Chinese nuclear weapons, 2021	5
The long view: Strategic arms control after the New START Treaty	5

United Kingdom nuclear weapons, 2021	4
Long-duration energy storage for reliable renewable electricity: The realistic possibilities	4
One if by invasion, two if by coercion: US military capacity to protect Taiwan from China	4
Redefining the wildfire problem and scaling solutions to meet the challenge	4
When burning wood to generate energy makes climate sense	4
The final countdown to site selection for Canada’s nuclear waste geologic repository	4
How Joe Biden can use confidence-building measures for military uses of AI	4
Cis-lunar space and the security dilemma	3
Stolen billions from errant mouse clicks: Crypto requires new approaches to attack money-laundering	3
Legal and political myths of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons	2
A US history of not conducting cyber attacks	2
French nuclear weapons, 2023	2
Putin’s psychology and nuclear weapons: The fundamentalist mindset	2
I gave my baby tooth to science: Project Sunshine’s role in the Limited Test Ban Treaty and cutting-edge pollution research	2
Nuclear weapons sharing, 2023	2
2011: Chernobyl 25 years later: Many lessons learned	2
Chinese nuclear weapons, 2024	2
The complicating role of the private sector in space	2
United States nuclear weapons, 2022	2
Climate change and water scarcity will increase risk of nuclear catastrophe in South Asia	2
2012: An elemental force: Uranium production in Africa, and what it means to be nuclear	2
Deterring a Chinese military attack on Taiwan	2
An extended interview with Christopher Nolan, director of Oppenheimer	2
Nuclear fear: The irrational obstacle to real climate action	2
Renewable ammonia: The future of fuels?	1
Climate anxiety is not a mental health problem. But we should still treat it as one	1
In Germany, the energy transition continues	1
Opportunities for US-Russian collaboration on the safe disposal of nuclear waste	1
Russia’s economy is much more than a “big gas station.” Under sanctions, that’s now its biggest problem	1
Why Biden should push for ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty	1
Climate change should be recognized for what it is: An issue of national security	1
After Putin – what?	1
2016: Putin: The one-man show the West doesn’t understand	1
The United States and stability in the Taiwan Strait	1
Making the transition to a green economy: What is our responsibility as citizens?	1
The high-tech surveillance state is not restricted to China: Interview with Maya Wang of Human Rights Watch	1
Dear President Biden: You should save, not revoke, Section 230	1
Why will some promising renewables technologies enter a “Valley of Death,” from which they never emerge?	1
A reality check and a way forward for the global governance of artificial intelligence	1
Why a mind-set of stubborn optimism about the climate crisis is needed, now more than ever	1
Collateral damage: American civilian survivors of the 1945 Trinity test	1
China and the United States: It’s a Cold War, but don’t panic	1
How bitcoin makes burning fossil fuels more profitable than ever	1
We need to act now to ensure global food security, and reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions	1
Microchips in humans: Consumer-friendly app, or new frontier in surveillance?	1
Nuclear energy: A distraction on the road to climate solutions	1
AI and atoms: How artificial intelligence is revolutionizing nuclear material production	1
Is nuclear power sustainable in a carbon-free world? The case of Sweden	1
How Biden can advance nuclear arms control and stability with Russia and China	1
To reassure Taiwan and deter China, the United States should learn from history	1

Transforming our nuclear future with ridiculous ideas	1
Introduction: Can we grow and burn our way out of climate change?	1
Despite challenges, US-Russian nuclear arms control has its benefits	1
To build climate progress on time scales that matter, Biden should be Biden	1
A just transition for US workers is within reach	1
Oppenheimer’s tragedy—and ours	1
Why Biden should abandon the great power competition narrative	1
How my Gen Z students learned to start worrying and dismantle the Bomb	1
1958: Only world government can prevent the war nobody can win	1
The future of technology: Lessons from China	1
Contending with climate change: The next 25 years	1
Science diplomacy: The essential interdisciplinary approach	1
Interview: CalPERS’ Anne Simpson on the climate change power of investment managers	1
Introduction: What you can do to turn back the hands of the Clock	0
Space Force: Fact or fiction?	0
Interview with Eric Schlosser: Why we can’t trust the government’s figures about nuclear close calls	0
1995: Hiroshima Memories: One sunny day, a young girl learned about darkness	0
Introduction: Near-misses, close calls, and early warnings	0
Introduction – Russia: what to expect next?	0
Russian nuclear weapons, 2024	0
Introduction: The brave new world of the high-tech surveillance state	0
Introduction: Advice for a new administration facing difficult times	0
Interview: California Congressman Ted Lieu on what you, as a citizen, can do about existential threats	0
Peak water in an era of climate change	0
Laying the groundwork for long-duration energy storage	0
2005: The bioterrorist cookbook	0
New confidence-building measures can reduce tensions around subcritical tests	0
1961: The neutron bomb	0
Lessons to be drawn from the search for Iraqi WMD	0
What do we really know about urban agriculture’s impact on people, places, and the planet?	0
Why what happened to Oppenheimer then is relevant now	0
Blockchain beyond cryptocurrency: A revolution in information management and international security	0
United States nuclear weapons, 2024	0
UNSCOM: A successful experiment in disarmament	0
Not your grandparents’ Cold War: Why America should emphasize economic rather than military strategies in its rivalry with China	0
How the renewables revolution can move from catchphrase to reality	0
Diversification from Russian nuclear fuel requires market-oriented solutions	0
UNSCOM’s work to uncover Iraq’s illicit biological weapons program: A primer	0
Bulletin statement on the Energy Department’s Oppenheimer decision	0
Tom Steyer on clean energy: It’s where the big money is going	0
Indian nuclear weapons, 2024	0
Introduction: Can we make overspending on the military politically costly?	0
A China-US war in space: The after-action report	0
Correction	0
Constitutional mistakes of the past can tyrannize the present—But we can fix them	0
An interview about the 2024 election with Harper Reed, chief technology officer for Obama 2012	0
“He did not speak the ordinary language”: Memories of Oppie from a Manhattan Project physicist	0
1978: Is mankind warming the Earth?	0
It’s time to reignite US-Russia cooperation in space. Nuclear power may hold the key	0
Fukushima: Lessons learned from a devastating “near-miss”	0
Figuring out the most realistic projections for sea-level rise: Interview with glaciologist Rob DeConto	0
Building a nuclear off-ramp following the war in Ukraine	0
To do or not to do: Pyongyang’s seventh nuclear test calculations	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
Interview with Graham Allison: Are the United States and China charging into Thucydides’s trap?	0
Between two wars	0
Introduction: Climate change—where are we now?	0
Puzzling out the Iraqi biological weapons program	0
How can the Biden administration reduce scientific disinformation? Slow the high-pressure pace of scientific publishing	0
Why the final frontier should not become the final battleground	0
The United States needs to cut military spending and shift money to two pressing threats: Pandemics and climate change	0
Introduction: How to dial back a disinformation dystopia	0
Introduction: UNSCOM and the future of WMD verification	0
1959: Science and art	0
After the fall: Bitcoin’s true legacy may be blockchain technology	0
Machine learning improves satellite imagery analysis of North Korean nuclear activity	0
Praying for the ice (and snow, and water) as the climate changes	0
To protect democratic values, journalism must save itself	0
Introduction: how to negotiate the China-Taiwan impasse	0
A perspective on UNSCOM culture	0
How to deal with an AI near-miss: Look to the skies	0
2000: North Korea: No bygones at Yongbyon	0
Bill McKibben explains what individuals can do to win the climate fight. Together	0
“The world has already ended”: Britt Wray on living with the horror and trauma of climate crisis	0
An innovative and determined future for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists	0
North Korean nuclear weapons, 2024	0
Introduction: Can the United States and China co-exist in the 21st century? Will they?	0
1950: What the scientists are saying	0
Correction	0
Memo to the president: Reimaging public health preparedness and response	0

Interview: Emerging military technology expert Paul Scharre on global power dynamics in the AI age	0
Book excerpt—Catastrophic climate change: Lessons from the dinosaurs	0
Conditional restraint: Why the India-Pakistan Kargil War is not a case of nuclear deterrence	0
Why President Biden needs to revisit—and reduce—his defense budget	0
Interview with Sneha Revanur, “the Greta Thunberg of AI”	0
Nuclear testing in the 21st century—legacy, tensions, and risks	0
Nichols presents charges	0
Regenerative agriculture sequesters carbon—But that’s not the only benefit and shouldn’t be the only goal	0
Sanctioning Russia’s oligarchs – with shame	0
Sure, deter China—but manage risk with North Korea, too	0
The president needs to hit the ground running on climate	0
The campaign volunteer who used AI to help swing Pakistan’s elections: Interview with Jibran Ilyas	0
The history of nuclear power’s imagined future: Plutonium’s journey from asset to waste	0
“It’s a different kind of world we’re living in now”: Interview with Francis Fukuyama	0
Pakistan nuclear weapons, 2023	0
Oppenheimer: The man behind the movie	0
Global and regional confrontation in South and Southeast Asia	0
AI misinformation detectors can’t save us from tyranny—at least not yet	0
How countries can build on UNSCOM’s legacy to solve today’s problems	0
Beatrice Fihn: How to implement the nuclear weapons ban treaty	0
Correction	0
What a Cold War crisis over Taiwan could tell us about China-Russia relations today	0
Will AI make us crazy?	0
The Oppenheimer case: A study in the abuse of law	0
Perspectives on UNSCOM and UNMOVIC: An interview with Nikita Smidovich	0
A new transatlantic division of labor could save billions every year!	0
Interview with Sam West, founder of the Museum of Failure	0
Alan Miller: How the News Literacy Project teaches schoolchildren (and adults) to dismiss and debunk internet disinformation	0
An ambitious arms control agenda requires a new organization equal to the task	0
Nobel chemistry laureate Jennifer Doudna on the promise and peril of the genetic editing revolution	0
The logic for US ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty	0
Does ‘net zero’ mean zero cows?	0
Where climate journalism is now: Interview with Emily Atkin, the fire behind the Heated climate newsletter	0
Interview: Robert Latiff on the worsening international security situation in space	0
1992: What is to be done?	0
Popping the chatbot hype balloon	0
Instead of reforming Facebook, should we just build something else?	0
Facts and opinions about climate change	0
Burning biomass: A Drax-tic idea, and bad for environmental justice	0
1956: Science and our times	0
Nuclear-free NYC: How New Yorkers are disarming the legacies of the Manhattan Project	0
Siegfried Hecker on remembering history while planning the future of nuclear arms control	0
How to avoid nuclear war with China	0
1947: How the American people feel about the atomic bomb	0
Able Archer: How close of a call was it?	0
Lessons learned in blood: Why we fail to use near-misses to prevent man-made disasters	0
1952: Ten years after	0
The horrors of nuclear weapons testing	0
Buckle up: We are in for a bumpy ride. An interview with Royal Astronomer Martin Rees	0
How a US defense secretary came to support the abolition of nuclear weapons	0
Water and war	0
RFK Jr.’s presidential ambitions may have fallen short, but his anti-vax beliefs are winning in many statehouses	0
Interview: Tom Collina of the Ploughshares Fund on the politics of defense spending	0
1975: All in our time: A foul and awesome display	0
Exchanging atoms for influence: Competition in Southeast Asia’s nuclear market	0
Introduction: Bringing the world’s food production in line with global climate goals	0
“Like writing the biography of a ghost”—Interview with Jeff Goodell, author of The Heat Will Kill You First	0
Charging ahead: Steven Chu, Nobel Prize-winner and former energy secretary, on today’s battery research—and more	0
How we know Antarctica is rapidly losing more ice	0
Wood-burning: Carbon hero or carbon villain. Q&A with forest modeling scientist Michael Ter-Mikaelian	0
Preserving the nuclear test ban after Russia revoked its CTBT ratification	0
Interview: Diane Randall, director general of the Friends Committee on National Legislation, discusses restraining the US defense budget	0
We cannot afford another lost year for food and climate action	0
What do ordinary Russians think? Interview with a Russian independent reporter	0
The edge of our existence	0
Oppenheimer—“A very mysterious and delphic character.” Interview with Kai Bird, author of American Prometheus	0
Interview: Lawrence Norden on US election security	0
Trust but verify: How to get there by using next-generation nuclear verification and warhead dismantlement techniques	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
Introduction: The hype, peril, and promise of artificial intelligence	0
The five things that must happen for renewables to fit into the grid: Interview with Greg Nemet	0
How demagogues destroy democracy: A step-by-step global guide	0
Avoiding an unintentional space war: Lessons from Cold War nuclear diplomacy	0
2004: City on fire	0
Monitoring Iraq’s dual-use capabilities: An interview with Gabriele Kraatz-Wadsack	0
Interview with Susan Solomon: The healing of the ozone hole, and what else we can learn from atmospheric near-misses	0
When glaciers calve: Large underwater tsunamis discovered at edge of Antarctica, likely affecting ice melt, climate and marine ecosystem	0
Biden should rethink US policy on low-yield nuclear weapons	0
Oppenheimer Replies	0
Creating a model democratic alternative to the surveillance state	0
How Biden can say goodbye to “America First” on nuclear issues	0
Remote monitoring: Verifying geographical arms limits	0
Introduction: Why some renewable technologies will perish in – and others survive – the “Valley of Death”	0
Some long-term effects of UNSCOM: People are important, or, therein lies much of the problem	0
Offshore wind: Poised for the big time. An interview with Anthony Kirincich	0
Environmental impacts of underground nuclear weapons testing	0
Interview: Catherine Bertini on eliminating hunger in a changing climate	0
Introduction: Climate action in the general interest	0
The trouble with Taiwan	0
2002: Nuclear gamblers	0
Introduction: The unintended—and undermanaged—consequences of blockchain and cryptocurrency	0
Water recommendation for the new administration	0
“H is For Hope” sounded a lot better than “D is For Despair”: Interview with Elizabeth Kolbert about climate change	0
1992: Keep peace by pooling armies	0
If you worry about humanity, you should be more scared of humans than of AI	0