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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

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