Robert Socolow, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton University and a member of the Bulletin's Science and Security Board, has received the Keystone Award for Leadership in the Environment.
Allison Macfarlane, Science and Security Board Chair, has been appointed to the Energy Department's newly formed Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Adjusts Clock From 5 to 6 Minutes Before Midnight; Encouraging Progress Seen Around Globe in Both Key Threat Areas: Nuclear Weapons and Climate Change.
We are poised to bend the arc of history toward a world free of nuclear weapons.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists will move the minute hand of its famous "Doomsday Clock" at 10 a.m. EST/1500 GMT on January 14, 2010 in New York City.
Stephen Hawking, member of the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, will receive the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Founding Director of Chapin Hall and Bulletin Governing Board member Harold A. Richman died on July 30, 2009.
Steven Weinberg, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979 and holder of the Josey Regental Chair in Science at the University of Texas at Austin, has been named to the Board of Sponsors of the Chicago-based Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
Bulletin board members Rose Gottemoeller, Jim Hansen, and Lawrence Korb to be featured speakers at Carnegie Nonproliferation Conference panel.
Joan Winstein, chief executive officer of Loan Strategies, Inc., has joined the governing board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, effective December 2008.