The authoritative guide to ensuring science and technology make life on Earth better, not worse.

Analysis

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

ribbons

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

Obituary: Mike Moore, who edited the Bulletin at the dawn of the post-Cold War era

By Matt Field | Analysis

JFK in White House in Cuban Missile Crisis

60 years later: How many nuclear weapons did the US and USSR have in the Cuban Missile Crisis?

By Hans M. Kristensen, Robert S. Norris | Analysis

The new science that could help spot the next pandemic before it begins

By Yong-Bee Lim | Analysis, Biosecurity