Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Papers
(The TQCC of Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
We cannot afford another lost year for food and climate action66
“He did not speak the ordinary language”: Memories of Oppie from a Manhattan Project physicist35
Introduction: Why some renewable technologies will perish in – and others survive – the “Valley of Death”17
An extended interview with Christopher Nolan, director of Oppenheimer16
Russian nuclear weapons, 202513
Machine learning improves satellite imagery analysis of North Korean nuclear activity13
Correction12
“Sustainable” biomass: A paper tiger when it comes to reducing carbon emissions12
Interview with Susan Solomon: The healing of the ozone hole, and what else we can learn from atmospheric near-misses9
Constitutional mistakes of the past can tyrannize the present—But we can fix them8
Final thoughts: The fragile connection of safety and science in the geological disposal of radioactive waste8
To reassure Taiwan and deter China, the United States should learn from history8
Nuclear-free NYC: How New Yorkers are disarming the legacies of the Manhattan Project7
RFK Jr.’s presidential ambitions may have fallen short, but his anti-vax beliefs are winning in many statehouses7
How we know Antarctica is rapidly losing more ice7
Nichols presents charges7
Interview with Sam West, founder of the Museum of Failure7
The impact of DOGE’s funding cuts on biomedical research, from the point of view of former NIH director Monica Bertagnolli7
“Like writing the biography of a ghost”—Interview with Jeff Goodell, author of The Heat Will Kill You First7
Nuclear weapons sharing, 20236
Michael Mann, on how the second US withdrawal from the Paris agreement may alter the world’s climate change landscape6
The path to compulsory voting6
United Kingdom nuclear weapons, 20246
Oppenheimer’s tragedy—and ours6
Cyberstorm on the horizon: David Sanger on what two recent breaches reveal about modern warfare6
North Korea: A renewed flash point or continuity of the status quo?5
Chinese nuclear weapons, 20255
Nuclear fear: The irrational obstacle to real climate action4
Cis-lunar space and the security dilemma4
Oppenheimer Replies4
Regenerative agriculture sequesters carbon—But that’s not the only benefit and shouldn’t be the only goal4
AI misinformation detectors can’t save us from tyranny—at least not yet3
Peak water in an era of climate change3
“Expertise is not only not valued by this administration, it’s inherently suspicious to them”—Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman3
Preserving the nuclear test ban after Russia revoked its CTBT ratification3
Russian nuclear weapons, 20223
“The world has already ended”: Britt Wray on living with the horror and trauma of climate crisis3
Glass and ceramic nuclear waste forms: The scientific battle3
Putin’s psychology and nuclear weapons: The fundamentalist mindset3
Interview: Lawrence Norden on US election security3
Introduction: (Almost) everything you wanted to know about tipping points, but were too afraid to ask3
Introduction: Bringing the world’s food production in line with global climate goals3
Fiona Hill: What Putin (and Trump?) might do next, after Ukraine3
Interview: Emerging military technology expert Paul Scharre on global power dynamics in the AI age3
Oppenheimer: The man behind the movie2
Environmental impacts of underground nuclear weapons testing2
The final countdown to site selection for Canada’s nuclear waste geologic repository2
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 take2
French nuclear weapons, 20232
Bulletin statement on the Energy Department’s Oppenheimer decision2
Stolen billions from errant mouse clicks: Crypto requires new approaches to attack money-laundering2
The war in Ukraine shows the game-changing effect of drones depends on the game2
Microchips in humans: Consumer-friendly app, or new frontier in surveillance?2
Laying the groundwork for long-duration energy storage2
North Korean nuclear weapons, 20242
The five things that must happen for renewables to fit into the grid: Interview with Greg Nemet2
How the renewables revolution can move from catchphrase to reality2
How to leverage positive tipping points for climate action2
Introduction: Can we grow and burn our way out of climate change?2
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