The maker of Sniper 3D Assassin decided to pull a version of the video game from online stores after an outcry over a level that involved killing a journalist.

Despite the willful denunciation of proven climate science by the White House and some members of Congress, there is a hopeful awakening in the United States: Young activists are stepping forward to demand a Green New Deal . In any plan to transition from an economy built on fossil fuels to one driven by clean energy, US public lands should feature prominently.

Bulletin's associate editor for nuclear affairs, François Diaz-Maurin, provides his 2022 nuclear year in review, plus seven nuclear stories that marked 2022—and that you should read.

The United States wasn’t prepared for the biological threat of the coronavirus pandemic, and experts told the US Senate that in key areas, it still isn’t prepared for biological risks.

After month upon month of public health officials offering cash prizes and deploying celebrity vaccine ads to encourage vaccination, President Joe Biden said Thursday that the country was losing patience with the unvaccinated and announced a plan to use the powers of the federal government to force a broad swath of the country to get its shots.

US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Geneva yesterday during a time when US-Russian relations have reached a post-Cold War low. Here, top nuclear experts offer a variety of viewpoints on whether the two presidents managed to understand each other enough at the Geneva summit to identify a possible path towards security and peace.

Underneath the daily, depressing headlines, five converging trends offer hope, for the first time in more than a decade, for dramatic positive change in US nuclear policy.

For whom the bell tolls.

Efforts to establish a UN treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons are already having an effect, pressuring governments to explain why they're sitting out negotiations.

Where most see large, unimpressive rocks, glacial geologists Aaron Putnam and Peter Strand see clues about whether the transition from cold to warm climates around 18,000 to 20,000 years ago—that is, the transition from the last ice age to a climate similar to the present day—occurred simultaneously across hemispheres. It appears they warmed together. The samples they’ve already studied from trips around the world—including this trip to the remote Altai Mountains in Mongolia—also hint that the shift occurred at a much faster rate than many previously suspected, a finding that has obvious implication's for today's human-made climate change.

Christmas came and went without Santa Kim coming to town. But North Korea’s warning that the United States would receive an unwelcome “Christmas gift” was never guaranteed. Pyongyang can select from a range of weapons to test in 2020. It’s anybody’s guess what will be inside Kim’s future gift package, and when it might be delivered.

The United States will finally have a coordinated biodefense strategy. Getting it right is essential to saving lives.

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The failure of the chemical weapons ban in Syria is not a strike against a proposed global ban on autonomous weapons. Bans derive their strength from morality, not practicality.

A top US commander said the new W93 nuclear warhead program makes him proud to be an American. A Hiroshima survivor shows us why pride is the wrong emotion.

The Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol entered into force this week, mandating the phase down of super climate pollutants called hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). The agreement could let the world avoid up to 0.5 C of atmospheric warming with fast implementation. This climate benefit could double if airconditioning and refrigerating equipment can be made more efficient.

Henry Sokolski, executive director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, proposes three nuclear questions about Iran, China, and reactors in war zones that journalists and citizens could profitably ask the 2024 presidential candidates.