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How it feels to predict a pandemic: Interview with David Quammen, author of Spillover

By Dan Drollette Jr | Biosecurity, Climate Change, Special Topics

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What the development of penicillin tells us about developing a coronavirus vaccine

By Dan Drollette Jr | Analysis, Biosecurity, Special Topics

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The coronavirus pandemic: A people’s first draft of history

By Dan Drollette Jr | Analysis, Biosecurity, Special Topics

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Virus aftermath: Optimism or pessimism about its effect on climate change?

By Fred Pearce | Climate Change, Special Topics

Another victim of coronavirus: Science

By Kate Yoder | Analysis, Climate Change, Special Topics

IAEA nuclear safeguards inspectors with remote surveillance equipment

Round-the-clock surveillance of Iran’s uranium-enrichment sites continues, despite coronavirus

By Tariq Rauf | Nuclear Weapons, Special Topics

To vote or to wait: The epidemic and the elections

By Dan Drollette Jr | Analysis, Special Topics

We erroneously reported a 2019 US presidential debate happened in 2020. We regret the error. Oh do we regret it.

Correction

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January 2020 Bulletin Atomic Scientists magazine cover president democrat republican nuclear policy debate

Latest issue: Nuclear weapons policy and the US presidential election

By | Announcement, Nuclear Risk, Special Topics

Attacks on Saudi oil facilities raise US-Iran tensions

By John Mecklin | Special Topics, What We’re Reading

alien-looking exoplanet Kepler 22b

Did climate change destroy the aliens?

By Michael Byers, Kent A. Peacock | Analysis, Climate Change, Special Topics

The focus of US military efforts in outer space should be … arms control

By Lawrence J. Korb | Nuclear Weapons, Special Topics