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4 May 2017
Interview

Paul Hawken: “Game on” for global warming

Dawn Stover

In this interview, environmentalist, entrepreneur, and author Paul Hawken discusses Project Drawdown, “the most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming.” Hawken, who leads the project and edited the just-published book Drawdown, explains why his team felt it necessary to create

1 November 2016
Interview

Taking stock: Steven Chu, former secretary of the Energy Department, on fracking, renewables, nuclear weapons, and his work, post-Nobel Prize

D. Drollette

Steven Chu was the Secretary of Energy until 2014 – the first time that a scientist had served as a member of the president’s cabinet.

2 September 2016
Interview

Adam Segal: Life in the hacked world order

Andrew Ivers

In this interview, Adam Segal, author of The Hacked World Order, discusses everything from Chinese commercial espionage and Russian political hacking to the worldwide ripple effects of the Edward Snowden leaks and why Washington should prepare for the end of its cyber dominance.

3 July 2016
Interview

Susan Southard: Unveiling the aftermath of nuclear war

Dawn Stover

In this interview, author and theater director Susan Southard discusses her book Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War, an award-winning history of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki and its enduring impact over 70 years.

3 May 2016
Interview

Former US ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul

John Mecklin

In this interview, former US ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul discusses US–Russian relations and how they might be improved, given Russian President Vladimir Putin’s suspicious views of US intentions.

3 March 2016
Interview

Former covert CIA operations officer Valerie Plame

John Mecklin

In an interview, former covert CIA operations officer Valerie Plame speaks with Bulletin editor-in-chief John Mecklin about how millennials can be encouraged to become active in dealing with the threat posed by nuclear weapons and nuclear proliferation.

3 March 2016
Asia
Interview

Fukushima Future Studies: five years later, what have we learned?

Dan Drollette Jr

The aftermath of the failure of two reactors in the spring of 2011 at Fukushima, Japan, involves more than background radiation or cleanup.

1 July 2015
Asia
Interview

Mitchie Takeuchi and Miyako Taguchi: Second-generation survivors of the atomic bomb

Mitchie Takeuchi’s mother and grandfather survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima 70 years ago. Miyako Taguchi’s parents survived the bombing of Nagasaki three days later.

1 May 2015
Interview

Cloud control: Climatologist Alan Robock on the effects of geoengineering and nuclear war

In this interview, Rutgers University climatologist Alan Robock talks with Elisabeth Eaves from the Bulletin about geoengineering and nuclear winter. He says that geoengineering is not the solution to global warming because of its many risks and unknowns.

1 March 2015
Interview

Henry Jacqz: A student of climate change

In this interview, Tufts University sophomore Henry Jacqz talks with the Bulletin about the Massachusetts-based group Students for a Just and Stable Future and its efforts to spur action on climate change.

1 January 2015
Interview

Frank von Hippel, scientist in the public interest

To introduce the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ special issue marking the start of its 70th year of publication, Bulletin executive director Kennette Benedict interviewed Frank von Hippel, one of the United States’ most prominent scientists in the nuclear policy arena, about his career as it

1 November 2014
Interview

Frances Crowe, 95-year-old antinuclear activist

In this interview, legendary activist Frances Crowe looks back on 70 years of protesting against the use of nuclear weapons and nuclear energy.

1 September 2014
Americas
Interview

Jerry Brown: Climate change policy in California--and beyond

John Mecklin

In this interview, California Gov.

1 July 2014
Interview

Elizabeth Kolbert: Covering the hot topic of climate change by going to the ends of the Earth

In this interview, author and New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert talks with the Bulletin’s Dan Drollette Jr about her recently published book, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History.

1 March 2014
Interview

Eric Schlosser: Uncovering nuclear weapons history from the ground up

In this interview, author and investigative journalist Eric Schlosser talks with the Bulletin about his recently published book Command and Control.

1 January 2014
Interview

Lester Brown: Plowing the way in environmental research

In this interview, pioneering environmental analyst Lester Brown warns about the growing mismatch between modern agriculture and a changing climate system, including the risk of widespread water shortages and a food crisis in poor countries.

1 November 2013
Interview

George Poste: One step ahead

In this interview, George Poste, co-director and chief scientist at Arizona State University's Complex Adaptive Systems Network, discusses where the United States stands today as an innovator in science and technology and explores how the nation was more bold in these areas during the Cold War.

1 September 2013
Europe/Russia
Interview

Siegfried S. Hecker: The story of Plutonium Mountain

In this interview, former Los Alamos National Laboratory director Siegfried S. Hecker details one of the world’s great nonproliferation stories—the effort to secure the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan.

1 July 2013
Americas
Interview

James Hansen: Taking heat for decades

Bulletin Staff

In this interview, outspoken climatologist James E. Hansen reflects on his 30-plus years of studying climate change and warning the public about its dangers. He talks about the most recent developments in climate science and the questions still to be answered.

1 March 2013
Interview

Osamu Motojima: Harnessing the 93-million-mile dream

Today, seven members—the European Union, the United States, Japan, China, Russia, South Korea, and India—have formed an organization and invested in what is planned to be the world’s first reactor-scale fusion machine.
1 January 2013
Interview

George P. Shultz: A Cold Warrior on a warming planet

Economist and statesman George P. Shultz has held four federal Cabinet posts, taught at three universities, and worked as president of a major company. In this interview, he talks about two missions: reducing nuclear weapons and reducing carbon emissions.
1 November 2012
Interview

What’s next for the NRC? A conversation with Allison Macfarlane

In this interview, Allison Macfarlane—the new chair for the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission and a former commissioner for the Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future—talks to the Bulletin during her first weeks on the job.
1 July 2012
Interview

Burton Richter: Seeing energy in three dimensions

In this interview, Stanford University physicist and Nobel laureate Burton Richter describes his strategy for gaining broader public and political agreement on how to change US energy policy.
1 May 2012
Interview

Thomas Homer-Dixon: Exploring the climate “mindscape”

Canadian political scientist Thomas Homer-Dixon explains why human civilization must make a transition from fossil fuels to low-carbon energy sources—not just because of climate concerns but also because conventional oil is declining in production and becoming increasingly difficult to
1 March 2012
Interview

Bill McKibben: Actions speak louder than words

Bill McKibben has written about climate change for general audiences for more than two decades and in recent years has become the most prominent American environmentalist on this issue.

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