Beginning in January 2009, Bulletin subscribers will receive the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists magazine in its new digital format only. To save on the steeply rising costs of paper and postage, the Bulletin will no longer produce a print edition of its magazine.
Through individual Bulletin accounts, subscribers will be able to book mark articles, set up news alerts, browse by subject and author, and more. Starting in 2009, subscribers will also have full, searchable access to the past 10 years of Bulletin articles and source documents.
Instructions will be sent to subscribers in December about setting up accounts. For additional information, please contact Barb Netter at bnetter@thebulletin.org.
“The decision makes fiscal sense and reflects how readers receive information about the science and security issues we cover,” said Bulletin editor Jonas Siegel. “We are reaching many more readers with much more material through our website and e-newsletter than we were through the print magazine alone. Initiatives designed to boost circulation of the magazine cost far more than they were generating in new print subscriptions.”
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.
Lawrence Krauss, a theoretical physicist and cosmologist at Arizona State University, will co-chair the Bulletin's Board of Sponsors with Nobel Laureate Leon Ledermen.
As of December 9, 2008, 53 years of Bulletin content is now available online for free at Google Books.