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B-2 Stealth Bomber

Best of the 2021 Bulletin magazine

By Dan Drollette Jr | Analysis, Climate Change

People protesting against Chutka Nuclear Power plant in Mandala district. Villagers of Chutka in Mandala district along with other displaced villagers of Bargi dam organised a rally to protest against the government decision to install Nuclear Power Plant at Chutka. If the project gets implemented then it will displace 3 villages. Credit: India Water Portal. Accessed via Flickr. CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.

India has long suppressed antinuclear activism. Still, activists persist.

By Urvashi Sarkar | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

A COVID-19 test.

How long will it take to develop and distribute vaccines against the omicron variant?

By Matt Field | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies

A photo shared on Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny's instagram account shows Alexey Navalny on a hospital bed surrounded by his wife and two children as his treatment continues at Charite Hospital in Berlin, Germany on September 15, 2020. Navalny was poisoned, German doctors from a clinic where he is being treated announced. (Photo by Alexey Navalny Instagram Account /Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

The Navalny poisoning: Moscow evades accountability and mocks the Chemical Weapons Convention

By Oliver Meier, Alexander Kelle | Analysis, Biosecurity

A dose of COVID-19 vaccine.

Do-it-yourself vaccines in a pandemic: democratized science or home-brewed pipe dream?

By Yong-Bee Lim | Analysis, Biosecurity

How do humans make sense of the bomb? A photo essay.

By Robert Del Tredici, Gordon Edwards | Analysis, Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Multimedia, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Whistleblower: Facebook undermines kids and democracy. Will Congress do something?

By Matt Field | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies

First came global warming. Then hurricanes. Then more migratory bird deaths?

By John Morales | Analysis, Climate Change, Columnists, Personal Essay

Paying for preparedness: Climate change role-play is suddenly real

By John Morales | Analysis, Climate Change, Columnists

Air quality surveillance and control: How to improve the response to all respiratory diseases, COVID-19 included

By Laura H. Kahn | Analysis, Biosecurity

parachute training

A new transatlantic division of labor could save billions every year!

By Barry R. Posen | Analysis, Missile Defense

Intelligence community investigation unable to reach consensus on the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic

By John Mecklin | Analysis, Biosecurity