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November 2019

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Apocalypse, a 1903 painting by Albert Goodwin

Stories of technological threat—and hope

By John Mecklin | Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies, Doomsday Clock, Nuclear Weapons

Why we're publishing an issue full of Doomsday descriptions.

Former US Defense Secretary and current Bulletin Board of Sponsors chair William Perry

Former Defense Secretary William Perry: Why we must describe doomsday to keep it from happening

By John Mecklin | Doomsday Clock, Interviews, Nuclear Weapons

A large wave at Banzai Pipeline of the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii

The apocalypse: It’s not the end of the world

By Jamais Cascio | Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies, Doomsday Clock, Nuclear Risk

The apocalypse probably won’t be quick or final. It will be an ...

A map showing nuclear strikes during an India-Pakistan war scenario

How an India-Pakistan nuclear war could start—and have global consequences

By Alan Robock, Owen Brian Toon, Charles G. Bardeen, Lili Xia, Hans M. Kristensen, Matthew McKinzie, R. J. Peterson, Cheryl S. Harrison, Nicole S. Lovenduski, Richard P. Turco | Doomsday Clock, Nuclear Weapons

The Greenland Ice Sheet was melting already in 2009

Revisiting the climate collapse: The view from Nuuk in the year 2070

By David Spratt | Climate Change, Doomsday Clock

How poorly-mitigated fossil fuel use over the next 50 years would cause ...

A colorized scanning electron micrograph of a white blood cell eating an antibiotic resistant strain of Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, commonly known as MRSA. Source: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

The existential threat of antimicrobial resistance

By Saskia Popescu | Biosecurity, Doomsday Clock, Technology and Security

The threats from nanotechnology

By Margaret E. Kosal | Disruptive Technologies

While there’s plenty of reason to be optimistic about the future of ...

Current homeland missile defense architecture. (UEWR = upgraded early warning radar.)

US ballistic missile defenses, 2019

By Matt Korda, Hans M. Kristensen | Nuclear Notebook, Nuclear Weapons

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