By Bulletin Staff, August 16, 2017
As the security situation ratcheted up on the Korean Peninsula over the last week, the Bulletin’s staff, leadership, and columnists quickly jumped into action, providing a trusted source of information to help track and make sense of unfolding events. Here is a summary of what we’ve been up to, in case you missed it:
Los Angeles Times: An op/ed by Bulletin Board of Sponsors chair, Lawrence Krauss
North Korea, Donald Trump and the ticking Doomsday Clock
CBS:
Will the Doomsday Clock be reset in light of North Korea situation?
With Lawrence Krauss and Bulletin Science & Security Board member Jon Wolfsthal
Huffington Post:
Trump’s Warning to North Korea called ‘Exactly Wrong” And “Reckless”
With Bulletin editor John Mecklin
Donald Trump Claims US military ‘Locked and Loaded” for North Korea.
With John Mecklin
The Hill:
Fallout: Trump’s ‘fire and fury’ sends officials scrambling
With Lawrence Krauss
Motherboard/Vice:
We Asked a Doomsday Clock Scientist About Trump’s ‘Fire and Fury’ Threat
With Bulletin Science & Security Board co-chair Robert Rosner
Newsweek:
North Korea Missile Claims are ‘a Hoax’
Nina Burleigh’s article was the first article based on our report by Ted Postol, Markus Schiller, and Robert Schmucker
New York Times:
North Korea’s Missile Success Is Linked to Ukrainian Plant, Investigators Say
This Wiliam J. Broad and David E. Sanger article also references our report by Ted Postol, Markus Schiller, and Robert Schmucker
Chicago Tribune:
Scott Stantis Doomsday Clock comic
And from the Bulletin website:
North Korea’s “not quite” ICBM can’t hit the lower 48 states
Ted Postol, Markus Schiller, and Robert Schmucker
Comments on the developing situation with North Korea
Ted Postol
Pyongyang can miniaturize, so let’s move on to what’s important: David Wright on the North Korea crisis
Lucien Crowder
After midnight
The July/August issue is on the aftermath of the use of nuclear weapons
What would happen if an 800-kiloton nuclear warhead detonated above midtown Manhattan?
Steven Starr, Lynn Eden, Theodore A. Postal
Nuclear Notebook Interactive: Our infographic on the world’s nuclear arsenals has just been updated
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