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Halloween advice: Prepare for the zombie apocalypse

Halloween advice: Prepare for the zombie apocalypse By A key feature of most zombie fiction is how unexpected the flesh-eating onslaught always is. Communities are caught completely off-guard, and leaders generally find themselves unprepared for the emergency. Society collapses, and the world struggles to learn how to survive in the new reality. But does the … Continued

Black swans from Mars? The real risks of sending alien samples home

NASA and the European Space Agency are planning to retrieve rocks and dust from the Mars for study on Earth. The agencies don’t think the samples will contain anything that’s alive. But nobody can put the potential risk of Mars samples at zero.

Russia’s “dirty bomb” disinformation, annotated

Russian spokesmen continue to press the narrative that Ukraine plans to use a dirty bomb to frame Russia. A close look at Russia's letter to the UN Security Council helps debunk those claims.

Strange animal-nuclear tales

How do animals such as elephants, mosquitos, and chickens view nuclear technologies? In these strange-but-true tales, you’ll encounter crocodiles who warm themselves in water surrounding nuclear power plants, polar bears that boarded a nuclear submarine, and even lizards accused of serving as nuclear spies.

War and the environment: The disturbing and under-researched legacy of depleted uranium weapons

There has been a lack of research and education into the effects of depleted uranium munitions on post-conflict communities in Iraq and Syria, and cleanup efforts by both UN member countries and affected communities have failed.
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A contact-tracing nightmare: When did the president catch the coronavirus, and who might he have given it to?

When did the president catch the virus, and who could he have given it to?

Trump and violence in 2020: a timeline of incitement

President Trump has peddled disinformation on the most important issues of the last year; here's a look at where it's dovetailed with armed or violent action by his supporters.
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“He did not speak the ordinary language”: Memories of Oppie, from a Manhattan Project physicist

One of the last surviving eyewitnesses from the effort to build the first atomic bomb gives his impressions of the Manhattan Project’s driving force: J. Robert Oppenheimer.
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How to avoid nuclear war with China

There is a significant probability a war between China and the United States could escalate to nuclear threats. It is urgent that the two countries launch talks on nuclear arms control, both to prevent a nuclear arms race and to reassure each other that both want to avoid a nuclear conflict.

Watch now—Women in Space: Propelling International Women’s Day into a New Dimension

Watch the Bulletin virtual program “Women in Space: Propelling International Women’s Day into a New Dimension” with Timiebi Aganaba, Kaitlyn Johnson, and Victoria Samson in conversation with Loren Grush.   These experts discussed the privatization of space, the weaponization of space amid the Ukraine crisis, the future of space governance, and more. Our program also featured two contributors from the Bulletin’s January/February magazine issue on “Conflicts in Space.”

Get this existential threat debate scorecard and ask the questions Fox News likely won’t

The topics announced for the first presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump leave outs a few things voters should be concerned about—like the end of the world as we know it.
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Playing at nuclear war

Just in time for holiday shopping comes nuclear virtual reality, in the form of video games, documentaries, emergency simulations, and so-called disaster tourism.

What you should know about North Korea and their nuclear weapons threats

Teen Vogue may not be the first place one ordinarily thinks of when it comes to articles on topics like North Korea and its nuclear weapons. That is changing.

Why the Doomsday Clock matters

Renowned graphic designer Michael Bierut has called the Bulletin’s Doomsday Clock the most powerful piece of information design of the 20th century, and last week’s Clock announcement showed its impact to have continued—and grown—well into the 21st.