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glacier with and without efforts to rein in climate change

The best of the Bulletin’s bimonthly magazine, 2024

By Dan Drollette Jr | Analysis, Biosecurity, Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons, Special Topics

"Experience Day" at Offutt Air Force Base's petting zoo, 2017.

Emerging experts of 2024: Fresh thinking about the military (and TikTok)

By Dawn Stover | Analysis, Voices of Tomorrow

Kitty Tucker, founder of Supporters of Silkwood, describes how Karen Silkwood's car went off the road in 1974 and she was killed, as Father William Davis, investigator for the Silkwood family, listens during a press conference after the Supreme Court upheld the Silkwood family decision.

The death of Karen Silkwood—and the plutonium economy

By Robert Alvarez | Analysis, Nuclear Risk

Why this is a climate election—even if that hasn’t been apparent on the trail

By Andrew Revkin | Analysis, Climate Change, Opinion

Six quality Bulletin readings, curated for the concerned Election Day voter. With a dash of humor for sanity’s sake.

By John Mecklin | Analysis, Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Risk

When maximizing food production manufactures disaster risk

By Charlie Mather, Gerald Singh | Analysis, Climate Change

Hibakusha group receives Nobel Peace Prize for “demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again”

By François Diaz-Maurin, Thomas Gaulkin | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

A new military-industrial complex: How tech bros are hyping AI’s role in war

By Paul Lushenko, Keith Carter | Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite captured Hurricane Helene making landfall near Perry, Florida, just east of the Aucilla River's mouth on Sept. 26, 2024, at 11:10 p.m. EDT. With winds reaching 140 mph and storm surges estimated at as high as 15 feet, the Category 4 storm was among the most powerful to strike the United States.

Hurricane Helene isn’t an outlier. It’s a harbinger of the future.

By John Morales | Analysis, Climate Change

President Vladimir Putin talks with the governor of Kursk on the situation regarding the Ukrainian invasion of the south of the oblast. Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The new red line: Why a prolonged conflict in Ukraine makes a nuclear attack more likely

By Phillips P. O’Brien | Analysis, Nuclear Risk

The United States Department of Commerce

Are new US export controls rules on chips and other critical tech good enough?

By Ian J. Stewart | Analysis

The N.S. Savannah was the world's first nuclear powered merchant ship. It launched in 1959 as part of the Atoms for Peace program. Photo: Department of Transportation Maritime Administration

Why nuclear-powered commercial ships are a bad idea

By George M. Moore | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk