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How I learned to hate the Bomb

By Joelien Pretorius | Feb 7, 2017

The proposed nuclear weapon ban treaty might seem to have a lot in common with nuclear arms control. Both approaches, after all, acknowledge that nuclear weapons are dangerous. Both seek to reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the world. But the truth is that arms control and the ban treaty imbue nuclear weapons with … Continued

Modernized arsenal, big expenditures

By Lucien Crowder | Nov 2, 2017

You can argue whether nuclear modernization plans are affordable or not. That may be missing the point.

In the first US “salvo” test of ground-based missile interceptors, two interceptors were launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on March 25, 2019. They successfully intercepted a “threat-representative” ICBM target launched from a test site on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. This photo shows the launch of the “lead” interceptor, which destroyed the missile’s reentry vehicle. The “trail” interceptor struck the remaining “most lethal object” it could find. Credit: Missile Defense Agency

Congress is not asking the right questions about missile defense

By Deverrick Holmes | Jun 25, 2019

Congress should not only question the price tag and poor track record of missile defense, but also whether it serves US interests at all.

Who lost the INF Treaty?

By Pavel Podvig | Oct 26, 2018

Russia is not the only one responsible. The Obama administration appears to have seriously mishandled the issue.

Conditional restraint: Why the India-Pakistan Kargil War is not a case of nuclear deterrence

By Arzan Tarapore | Nov 8, 2023

In the 1999 Kargil War, India defended its territory from a Pakistani incursion but chose not to expand the war with counter-attacks onto Pakistan soil. But in a future conflict India may be encouraged to take especially risky and escalatory wartime actions, posing a test for nuclear deterrence.

Dead before arrival: The governance of stratospheric aerosol injection

By Aaron Tang | Mar 15, 2023

The governance of stratospheric aerosol injection raises questions like who gets to control the world’s climate and how they would go about it.

Ethanol’s clean promise has only led to dirtier air

By Tom Philpott | Feb 19, 2021

Biden is doubling down on a bad idea that has flourished since the days of President George W. Bush. So why won’t he let this biofuel die already?

EU, Canada, New Zealand and developing countries vow to keep up the fight

By Fiona Harvey, Ben Doherty, Jonathan Watts | Dec 14, 2018

Despite the bad news from the climate talks in Poland, there was something positive, when it comes to keeping global warming below 1.5C.

Are the US and China fighting a “tech war” over semiconductors and other advanced technology?

By Matt Field | Oct 21, 2022

Recent tensions between the US and China have sparked a lot commentary framing the dynamic as like a "war." Some analysts think the metaphor is necessary, while others fear the military implications of the term.

Do professional ethics matter in war?

By Hugh Gusterson | Mar 4, 2010

What happens when the U.S. military decides that an academic discipline's professional ethics code is a nuisance? That is the situation in which anthropology now finds itself.

To protect democratic values, journalism must save itself

By Sara Goudarzi | Sep 5, 2024

In 2023, an average of 2.5 local newspapers shut down each week. This year seems to be following a similar trend. With fewer professional journalists keeping watch over politicians and the process of voting—and an information landscape that is rife with falsehoods and propaganda—democracy is under threat.

An interview with Annie Jacobsen, author of ‘Nuclear War: A Scenario’

By Michael Mechanic | Apr 1, 2024

In this interview, author Annie Jacobsen talks about her new book, 'Nuclear War: A Scenario," and the horror—and unwinnability—of nuclear war.

Digital threats to freedom and democracy

By John Mecklin | Feb 28, 2017

The digital revolution has changed the way the world works, and connects, and plays. It is also quickly challenging the ability of open societies to monitor and regulate the downside of electronic interconnection, as two accomplished magazine reports show this week.

North Korea sent troops to Russia. The reason(s) are “left to be seen”

By François Diaz-Maurin | Oct 25, 2024

Thousands of North Korean soldiers may fight alongside Russia in Ukraine. South Korean officials worry the North may get Russian advanced weapons technologies to boost its nuclear and missile programs in exchange.

2021 Annual Event Program

By Bulletin Staff | Jul 16, 2021

Conversations Before Midnight Virtual Reality Tour through the Doomsday Clock, 2018-19, In Memory of Martyl, courtesy of Ellen Sandor & (art)n. Annual Event November 9, 2021 | 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Central Time Join small-group conversations with experts from around the world! This unique virtual experience allows you and your guests to join small, … Continued

Faith, farmers, and climate action

By Brian J. Barth | Jul 2, 2019

Could America’s farmers—a demographic seen as religious and conservative—be a secret weapon in the climate fight?

What is US nuclear policy, exactly?

By Adam Mount, Abigail Stowe-Thurston | Apr 18, 2018

The administration and drafters of the Nuclear Posture Review are sending mixed messages about US intentions.

Tinkering won’t produce disarmament

By Matthew Kroenig | Jan 23, 2015

This roundtable supposes a tension between the nuclear powers’ stated disarmament goals and their current plans to modernize their nuclear forces. But does such a tension in fact exist? That depends to a large degree on one’s assumptions about how global disarmament, if achievable, will most likely come about. Many assume that disarmament will result … Continued

An F-35A Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter from the 58th Fighter Squadron, 33rd Fighter Wing, at Eglin AFB in Florida. US Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Donald R. Allen

Introduction: Can we make overspending on the military politically costly?

By John Mecklin | Sep 7, 2021

In the September issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, five expert observers of US military spending provide their views on bringing a measure of sanity to the process by which successive Congresses and presidents produce—almost automatically, with little that resembles probing oversight or even rational discussion—ever-larger US defense budgets.

With Democrats’ control of the Senate, a path forward on climate?

By Zoya Teirstein | Jan 14, 2021

With the turmoil in the Capitol, it’s easy to downplay the Democrats’ flipping of the Senate. But there may now be serious movement forward on climate change.

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