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Remote Monitoring: Verifying geographical arms limits

“Active tags,” attached to dual-capable missiles, could help states to monitor remotely defined arms limits without having to rely on resource-intensive human inspections.

Five minutes is too close

A careful review of threats leads the Bulletin's Science and Security Board to conclude that the risk of civilization-threatening technological catastrophe remains high, and that the hands of the Doomsday Clock should therefore remain at five minutes to midnight.

Target Sochi: The threat from the Caucasus Emirate

Perhaps the world's most capable terror group threatens the Winter Olympics, which coincides with two grim anniversaries of Russian atrocities against people in the North Caucasus.

Can Japan become a bridge-builder for nuclear disarmament?

Editor's note:  To mark the presidential visit to Hiroshima, we are reprinting this August 2015 Bulletin column. The recent, 70-year anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki offer a sobering opportunity to truly re-examine the real impact of the use of nuclear weapons—and not just take a sanitized view. Because the age of … Continued

South Asia is not the most dangerous place on Earth

While the nuclear situation between India and Pakistan is not good, it's been over-dramatized as near-inevitable here in the West, says a noted physicist from the region.

The ban treaty: A big nuclear-weapon-free zone?

The nuclear weapons states seem to have accepted the idea that a treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons—known informally as the ban treaty—could indeed be the result of a UN conference being held this June and July in New York City. Nevertheless, some observers maintain that even if a ban treaty were to be negotiated, it … Continued
Zelensky and Kishida at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on May 21, 2023 - crop

In Hiroshima, the G7 economies leverage global security gains

With dysfunctional norms and institutions, the G7 could become a de facto body for nuclear arms control and disarmament, an Harvard University expert argues.

The end of Japan’s nuclear taboo

Ever since the August 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese people have possessed a strong aversion to the idea of nuclear weapons. Public discussion of developing nuclear weapons has been practically nonexistent, and politicians have been chastised for mentioning the topic: As recently as 1999, Japan's vice defense minister resigned after receiving overwhelming criticism for suggesting that Japan should arm itself with nuclear weapons.

Nowhere to hide: How a nuclear war would kill you—and almost everyone else.

In a nuclear war, hundreds to thousands of detonations would occur within minutes, resulting in tens to hundreds of millions of people dead or injured in a few days. But a few years after, global climatic changes caused by the many nuclear explosions could be responsible for the death of more than half of the human population on Earth.