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Biosecurity community divided over best ways to mitigate risks

By Anemone Franz | Analysis, Biosecurity, Voices of Tomorrow

Elon musk jumping on stage at a Trump rally

The spies Musk sent into the cold are a counterintelligence disaster in the making

By Calder Walton | Analysis, Special Topics, Technology and Security

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, accompanied by President Donald Trump and his son X Musk, speaks during an executive order signing in the Oval Office at the White House on February 11. The executive order implements the Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) "workforce optimization initiative," which, according to Trump, will encourage agencies to limit hiring and reduce the size of the federal government. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

How Trump, Musk, and DOGE are undermining US intelligence and national security

By Thomas Fingar | Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, Nuclear Risk, Special Topics

The fires of Hiroshima and Los Angeles: Apocalypse redux

By Richard P. Turco, Owen Brian Toon | Analysis, Climate Change, Nuclear Risk

Protesters demonstrating in support of USAID on Wednesday, February 5th, 2025 in Washington, DC.

How the shutdown of USAID will hurt Americans and empower foreign adversaries

By Erik English | Analysis

Kim Jong-un and Hwasong-17 ICBM

A letter from Kim Jong Un to Donald Trump, penned by two top US experts

By Robert L. Carlin, Siegfried S. Hecker | Analysis, Nuclear Risk

Memos to Trump: Policy recommen­dations the new president might actually like

By John Mecklin | Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, Biosecurity, Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

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