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The guided-missile destroyer USS Chafee launches a Block V Tomahawk cruise missile, the weapon's newest variant, during a three day missile exercise. (U.S. Navy photo by Ensign Sean Ianno)

A new nuclear-armed, sea-launched cruise missile: Just say no

By Robert J. Goldston | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

A section of the April 1969 issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' magazine. This issue was published at the height of the Vietnam war and commented on nuclear activism, the impacts of nuclear tests, agricultural development in Africa, and how science is actually a form of art.

A view from the height of the Vietnam War: Scientists and youth in revolt

By Eugene Rabinowitch | Analysis

Heat dome five times more likely due to climate change, say researchers

By Oliver Milman | Analysis, Climate Change

Russian police stand at a checkpoint on Saturday in Moscow, Russia. The Wagner Group, an independent army led by former Putin ally Yevgeny Prigozhin, had vowed to "go all the way" to Moscow to topple Russia's military leadership. The apparent coup attempt ended Saturday when Prigozhin called off the rebellion and agreed to leave Russia for Belarus. (Photo by Epsilon/Getty Images)

Prigozhin, Putin, and the Russian coup that evaporated

By John Mecklin | 2020 Doomsday Clock mentions, Analysis, Nuclear Risk

Another warning from industry leaders on dangers posed by AI

By Sara Goudarzi | Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

High camp and soft power: How Eurovision explains modern Europe—and more

By Erik English | Analysis, Multimedia

The British government doesn’t want to talk about its nuclear weapons. The British public does

By Tim Street, Harry Spencer, Shane Ward | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons, Voices of Tomorrow

Delegation members from the UN Security Council's five permanent members (P5), from left to right: Philip Barton of Britain, Andrea Thompson of the United States, Nicolas Roche of France, Fu Cong of China, and Oleg Rozhkov of Russia, attend a panel discussion after the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) conference in Beijing in January 2019. Photo by Thomas Peter/AFP via Getty Images.

All START: a proposal for moving beyond US-Russia arms control

By Amy J. Nelson, Michael O’Hanlon | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

Research ship and icebreaker in Arctic ice

The Ukraine war is affecting vital Arctic research

By Ed Struzik | Analysis

mass grave hiroshima 1945 atomic bomb

Cold War estimates of deaths in nuclear conflict

By William Burr | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Lost without you: The Bulletin’s best maps of 2022

By Erik English | Analysis, Biosecurity, Climate Change, Multimedia

The eight best Bulletin magazine articles of 2022

By Dan Drollette Jr | Analysis