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If he is not indicted for crimes (sexual assault? fraud?)from his murky past, if he is not felled by the heart attack typical for men of his age, work hours, and dietary habits, I expect President Trump to be deposed in a Republican house coup. He will then have been a vehicle for the election of President Pence.

We often hear about Germany’s audacious ‘energy turn-around,’ or Energiewende, from fossil fuels to renewables. But how has it really worked in practice, from the viewpoint of someone who has worked for more than two decades for both Germany’s utilities and large, energy-intensive industries? What lessons can the United States take from observing the German experience?

Russian authorities had a hand in suppressing this year's protests on behalf of jailed opposition leader Alexey Navalny: foreign social media companies like Google subsidiary YouTube. The tech platforms abided by the Russian government's orders to remove protest-related content.

Scientists have kept a wary eye on H5N1 bird flu as the virus has swept around the world in recent years, infecting numerous mammalian species along the way. Now the virus has been found in US cattle. Is bird flu one step closer to becoming a human pandemic threat?

For decades before it was selected for closure, the Treasure Island Naval Station in San Francisco Bay overhauled military ships and housed nuclear war academies that used radium, plutonium, and cesium 137 in their training courses. The Navy knew for years that those materials were not always in safe hands. But it did not acknowledge that history publicly, and as a result, workers preparing for civilian redevelopment may have inadvertently spread radioactive material around the island, The Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) has found in a yearlong investigation co-published by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

What can we learn by looking at how the first atomic bomb test was covered over time?

On the 75th anniversary of the first nuclear explosion, a novel retelling of the Trinity test, woven entirely from words the Manhattan Project's protagonists first published in the Bulletin.

In-person, on-site inspections are continuing. And the IAEA also has 1,563 cameras, 866 surveillance systems, and a variety of other, on-site verification technologies installed at facilities around the world, allowing it to monitor nuclear activities remotely.

Australia’s 2019-20 summer wildfires are harbingers of death on a hotter planet. But they did not come without warning. The question now is: What are we going to do about it?

Some claim that shortages of rare earth minerals, or China’s near-monopoly over rare earths, could inhibit the West’s shift to renewable energy. It's just a long-standing myth.