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Interviews

ancient Greek warriors on vase

Interview with Graham Allison: Are the United States and China charging into Thucydides’s trap?

By John Mecklin | Interviews, Opinion, Special Topics

DeepMind’s David Silver speaks to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists about games, beauty, and AI’s potential to avert human-made disasters. Photo provided by David Silver and used with permission.

DeepMind’s David Silver on games, beauty, and AI’s potential to avert human-made disasters

By Susan D’Agostino | Artificial Intelligence, Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies, Interviews, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

man speaking with clenched fists

Interview: Author and activist Bill McKibben on the “timed test” of the climate crisis

By Jessica McKenzie | Climate Change, Interviews

Sen. Jim Inhofe, a Republican from Oklahoma and ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, speaks during a hearing in March on the Defense Authorization Request for fiscal year 2022 and the Future Years Defense Program. Photographer: Andrew Harnik/AP/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Interview: Diane Randall, general secretary of the Friends Committee on National Legislation, discusses restraining the US defense budget

By John Mecklin | Interviews, Missile Defense, Nuclear Weapons

Smolny College Commencement, 2019. Smolny College—the first liberal arts program in Russia—was founded as a dual-degree program between Bard College in the United States and St. Petersburg University in Russia. Last month, the Russian State Prosecutor’s Office labeled Bard College “undesirable,” which criminalized Bard’s decades-long partnership with St. Petersburg University. Photo credit: Bard College. Used with permission.

Why scientists should respond to Russia’s criminalizing of a US educational exchange

By Susan D’Agostino | Interviews, Nuclear Risk, Opinion

Kateryna Pavlova served as acting head of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone during the 2020 wildfires and COVID-19 pandemic. Photo permission from Kateryna Pavlova.

Kateryna Pavlova battled a pandemic, wildfires, corruption, and sexism in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

By Susan D’Agostino | Interviews, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

climate change protest sign

Big advertising to ditch Big Oil?

By Dan Drollette Jr | Climate Change, Interviews

Sheldon Whitehouse and climate activism poster in US Senate

Senator “It’s Time to Wake Up” Whitehouse drops his climate change mic

By Dan Drollette Jr | Climate Change, Interviews

Climate scientist Melissa Burt with her daughter

The 10-minute interview: Katharine Hayhoe on Science Moms fighting climate change

By Dawn Stover | Climate Change, Interviews

the cover of "Fallout," by Lesley M. M. Blume

“We’re in a storytelling crisis”: Advice for writing on nuclear issues, from the author of “Fallout”

By Sara Z. Kutchesfahani | Interviews, Nuclear Risk

multiple images of Trump in style of Andy Warhol silkscreen

Should I stay or should I go? A ‘Chernobyl-like defect’ in our election system might give Trump a choice

By Dan Drollette Jr | Analysis, Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies, Interviews

Author Jan Eliasberg

Jan Eliasberg: Fiction as a window into the ethics of testing the Bomb

By | Interviews, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons