Personal Essay

Victorian-era mourning painting of young girl and family

Good Boy

By Kerri Brady Long | Fiction, Magazine, Personal Essay, Special Topics

map of night sky, from NASA

The Hard Problem

By Beston Barnett | Fiction, Magazine, Personal Essay, Special Topics

Nematode closeup under microscope

What the People Want

By Patrick Hutson | Fiction, Magazine, Personal Essay, Satire, Special Topics

Visitors check out an infinity chamber at the "Futurium" in Berlin, a venue where significant national and international developments in scientific, technical and social research are to be presented and discussed among the government, the scientific community, industry, and society. (Photo credit: JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP via Getty Images)

The recent past and foreseeable future of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: a conversation

By John Mecklin | Interviews, Magazine, Opinion, Personal Essay, Special Topics

Chernobyl cover

1986: Hospital Number Six: a first-hand report

By Michael McCally | Magazine, Nuclear Risk, Personal Essay

kids pulling back the hands of the Doomsday Clock

Looming climate doomsday demands creativity, ambition, and societal transformation

By Zanagee Artis | Climate Change, Magazine, Opinion, Personal Essay

solar panels in field

The brightest light at the end of the tunnel

By Bill McKibben | Climate Change, Magazine, Personal Essay, Special Topics

schematics of Fat Man bomb

Eighty years and 89 seconds: It’s time to fight against midnight

By Alexandra Bell | Magazine, Nuclear Risk, Opinion, Personal Essay, Special Topics

Nuclear family: A child of the Manhattan Project contemplates its 80th anniversary

By Leslie Schover | Nuclear Weapons, Personal Essay

Robert Alvarez with Li Gun in North Korea.

An appreciation of Bob Alvarez, a fearless advocate for those harmed by the US nuclear weapons complex

By Michael Slater | Nuclear Risk, Personal Essay

Dick Garwin: a polymath physicist, strategic thinker, and gifted communicator

By Herbert Lin | Nuclear Weapons, Personal Essay

The logic of Dick Garwin: a remembrance

By Rita Guenther | Nuclear Weapons, Personal Essay