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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Though overshadowed in news headlines by a major hurricane in the Atlantic and a super-typhoon in the Pacific, both of which may well have been enhanced by climate change, the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco showed its own kind of force on Thursday.

75th Anniversary Dinner November 12, 2020 – SOLD OUT! We are immensely grateful to members of our Bulletin community for making our virtual 75 Years and Counting Anniversary Dinner a resounding success! Program highlights included inspiring words from former Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of the Environment Yoriko Kawaguchi, a conversation with Rieser Award recipients past … Continued

The Republican presidential candidates have gone to a great deal of trouble to avoid confronting the facts about climate change. These politicians like to say, "I am not a scientist," a truth sadly obvious to any scientist. Yet they have refused to learn what science has discovered about climate change. 

Chemical warfare is still alive and well in Syria and Iraq, because of an enduring belief among regional actors that chemical weapons will get the job done. 

A group of Stanford students debates whether the Bulletin’s Science and Security Board is acting ethically when setting the hands on the Doomsday Clock.

Bulletin columnist Duyeon Kim offers her views on the variety of intersecting political crosscurrents that connect and affect the upcoming South Korean election, the coronavirus pandemic, and the status of relations between North and South Korea.