Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Article	Citations
Puzzling out the Iraqi biological weapons program	46
We cannot afford another lost year for food and climate action	29
“He did not speak the ordinary language”: Memories of Oppie from a Manhattan Project physicist	27
Introduction: Why some renewable technologies will perish in – and others survive – the “Valley of Death”	16
A perspective on UNSCOM culture	15
An extended interview with Christopher Nolan, director of Oppenheimer	13
Machine learning improves satellite imagery analysis of North Korean nuclear activity	12
Correction	12
Interview with Susan Solomon: The healing of the ozone hole, and what else we can learn from atmospheric near-misses	11
To reassure Taiwan and deter China, the United States should learn from history	9
How we know Antarctica is rapidly losing more ice	9
Constitutional mistakes of the past can tyrannize the present—But we can fix them	8
“Sustainable” biomass: A paper tiger when it comes to reducing carbon emissions	8
Final thoughts: The fragile connection of safety and science in the geological disposal of radioactive waste	8
RFK Jr.’s presidential ambitions may have fallen short, but his anti-vax beliefs are winning in many statehouses	7
Nichols presents charges	7
Interview with Sam West, founder of the Museum of Failure	7
Nuclear-free NYC: How New Yorkers are disarming the legacies of the Manhattan Project	7
“Like writing the biography of a ghost”—Interview with Jeff Goodell, author of The Heat Will Kill You First	7
Nuclear weapons sharing, 2023	6
Can small modular reactors help mitigate climate change?	6
United Kingdom nuclear weapons, 2024	6
The path to compulsory voting	5
Oppenheimer’s tragedy—and ours	5
Chinese nuclear weapons, 2025	5

Nuclear fear: The irrational obstacle to real climate action	4
Putin’s psychology and nuclear weapons: The fundamentalist mindset	4
Oppenheimer Replies	4
“The world has already ended”: Britt Wray on living with the horror and trauma of climate crisis	4
Cis-lunar space and the security dilemma	4
Regenerative agriculture sequesters carbon—But that’s not the only benefit and shouldn’t be the only goal	4
Interview: Emerging military technology expert Paul Scharre on global power dynamics in the AI age	4
AI misinformation detectors can’t save us from tyranny—at least not yet	3
North Korean nuclear weapons, 2024	3
Interview: Lawrence Norden on US election security	3
Peak water in an era of climate change	3
Oppenheimer: The man behind the movie	2
Introduction: (Almost) everything you wanted to know about tipping points, but were too afraid to ask	2
Introduction: Bringing the world’s food production in line with global climate goals	2
Environmental impacts of underground nuclear weapons testing	2
How the renewables revolution can move from catchphrase to reality	2
Russian nuclear weapons, 2022	2
Glass and ceramic nuclear waste forms: The scientific battle	2
The five things that must happen for renewables to fit into the grid: Interview with Greg Nemet	2
Introduction: Can we make overspending on the military politically costly?	2
Bulletin statement on the Energy Department’s Oppenheimer decision	2
Preserving the nuclear test ban after Russia revoked its CTBT ratification	2
Stolen billions from errant mouse clicks: Crypto requires new approaches to attack money-laundering	2
French nuclear weapons, 2023	2
Laying the groundwork for long-duration energy storage	1
UNSCOM: A successful experiment in disarmament	1
Not your grandparents’ Cold War: Why America should emphasize economic rather than military strategies in its rivalry with China	1
Do Germany and the Netherlands want to say goodbye to US nuclear weapons?	1
Chinese nuclear weapons, 2021	1
Introduction: Near-misses, close calls, and early warnings	1
Despite challenges, US-Russian nuclear arms control has its benefits	1
Why a mind-set of stubborn optimism about the climate crisis is needed, now more than ever	1
The final countdown to site selection for Canada’s nuclear waste geologic repository	1
The war in Ukraine shows the game-changing effect of drones depends on the game	1
United States nuclear weapons, 2022	1
To do or not to do: Pyongyang’s seventh nuclear test calculations	1
Burning biomass: A Drax-tic idea, and bad for environmental justice	1
Nuclear testing in the 21st century—legacy, tensions, and risks	1
What do we really know about urban agriculture’s impact on people, places, and the planet?	1
Introduction: How to dial back a disinformation dystopia	1
Avoiding an unintentional space war: Lessons from Cold War nuclear diplomacy	1
Nerds, ninjas, and neutrons: The story of the Nuclear Emergency Support Team	1
Introduction: Can we grow and burn our way out of climate change?	1
Microchips in humans: Consumer-friendly app, or new frontier in surveillance?	1
How to leverage positive tipping points for climate action	1
How countries can build on UNSCOM’s legacy to solve today’s problems	1
Able Archer: How close of a call was it?	1
Pakistani nuclear weapons, 2021	1
Indian nuclear weapons, 2024	1
Introduction: Climate change—where are we now?	1

The Oppenheimer case: A study in the abuse of law	1
We need to act now to ensure global food security, and reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions	1
UNSCOM’s work to uncover Iraq’s illicit biological weapons program: A primer	1
Interview with Sneha Revanur, “the Greta Thunberg of AI”	1
Countries have more than 100 laws on the books to combat misinformation. How well do they work?	0
What do ordinary Russians think? Interview with a Russian independent reporter	0
Blockchain beyond cryptocurrency: A revolution in information management and international security	0
Ferreting out the truth about fusion: Interview with Bob Rosner	0
Sure, deter China—but manage risk with North Korea, too	0
After ITER: What China and others are doing in fusion. Interview with MIT’s Dennis Whyte	0
How my Gen Z students learned to start worrying and dismantle the Bomb	0
Russian nuclear weapons, 2023	0
Popping the chatbot hype balloon	0
Monitoring Iraq’s dual-use capabilities: An interview with Gabriele Kraatz-Wadsack	0
Lessons learned in blood: Why we fail to use near-misses to prevent man-made disasters	0
“Fusion is not a typical bet.” Interview with Silicon Valley venture capitalist Mark Coopersmith	0
Praying for the ice (and snow, and water) as the climate changes	0
A reality check and a way forward for the global governance of artificial intelligence	0
An interview about the 2024 election with Harper Reed, chief technology officer for Obama 2012	0
Oppenheimer—“A very mysterious and delphic character.” Interview with Kai Bird, author of American Prometheus	0
When burning wood to generate energy makes climate sense	0
The enduring risks and new challenges of nuclear materials: A special issue dedicated to Rodney C. Ewing’s scientific and policy contributions	0
Is scientific reticence hindering climate understanding?	0
The future of technology: Lessons from China	0
The horrors of nuclear weapons testing	0
Interview: Robert Latiff on the worsening international security situation in space	0
Conditional restraint: Why the India-Pakistan Kargil War is not a case of nuclear deterrence	0
United Kingdom nuclear weapons, 2021	0
Introduction: Can the United States and China co-exist in the 21st century? Will they?	0
Between two wars	0
Opportunities for US-Russian collaboration on the safe disposal of nuclear waste	0
Pakistan nuclear weapons, 2023	0
Introduction: Securing elections, democracy, and the information ecosystem in a critical political year	0
I gave my baby tooth to science: Project Sunshine’s role in the Limited Test Ban Treaty and cutting-edge pollution research	0
After the fall: Bitcoin’s true legacy may be blockchain technology	0
Instead of reforming Facebook, should we just build something else?	0
How to avoid nuclear war with China	0
China and the United States: It’s a Cold War, but don’t panic	0
Carlos Nobre on tipping points in the Amazon rainforest	0
Introduction: The hype, peril, and promise of artificial intelligence	0
New confidence-building measures can reduce tensions around subcritical tests	0
Where climate journalism is now: Interview with Emily Atkin, the fire behind the Heated climate newsletter	0
Introduction – Russia: what to expect next?	0
Space Force: Fact or fiction?	0
Indian nuclear weapons, 2022	0
A US history of not conducting cyber attacks	0
Greenland ice loss cannot be stopped—but it can and must be slowed	0
The history of nuclear power’s imagined future: Plutonium’s journey from asset to waste	0
“It’s a different kind of world we’re living in now”: Interview with Francis Fukuyama	0
Some long-term effects of UNSCOM: People are important, or, therein lies much of the problem	0
Small and advanced nuclear reactors: Closing the fuel cycle?	0
Introduction: The unintended—and undermanaged—consequences of blockchain and cryptocurrency	0
Fusion power: The uncertain certainty	0
Introduction: how to negotiate the China-Taiwan impasse	0
The high-tech surveillance state is not restricted to China: Interview with Maya Wang of Human Rights Watch	0
The fuel supply quandary of fusion power reactors	0
Sanctioning Russia’s oligarchs – with shame	0
What if potatoes grew on trees? An interview with the Breadfruit Institute’s Diane Ragone	0
The Swiss cheese model for mitigating online misinformation	0
The campaign volunteer who used AI to help swing Pakistan’s elections: Interview with Jibran Ilyas	0
The logic for US ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty	0
Nuclear energy: A distraction on the road to climate solutions	0
(Trying to) keep it cool: Vladimir Romanovsky on permafrost fieldwork	0
Chinese nuclear weapons, 2024	0
The trouble with Taiwan	0
Interview with Eric Schlosser: Why we can’t trust the government’s figures about nuclear close calls	0
Building a nuclear off-ramp following the war in Ukraine	0
AI and atoms: How artificial intelligence is revolutionizing nuclear material production	0
United States nuclear weapons, 2023	0
How bitcoin makes burning fossil fuels more profitable than ever	0
Global and regional confrontation in South and Southeast Asia	0
One if by invasion, two if by coercion: US military capacity to protect Taiwan from China	0
The entanglement of fusion energy research and bombs	0
Long-duration energy storage for reliable renewable electricity: The realistic possibilities	0
Does ‘net zero’ mean zero cows?	0
How to deal with an AI near-miss: Look to the skies	0
Offshore wind: Poised for the big time. An interview with Anthony Kirincich	0
Introduction: UNSCOM and the future of WMD verification	0
Legal and political myths of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons	0
Redefining the wildfire problem and scaling solutions to meet the challenge	0

Introduction: What you can do to turn back the hands of the Clock	0
Trust but verify: How to get there by using next-generation nuclear verification and warhead dismantlement techniques	0
To protect democratic values, journalism must save itself	0
Why will some promising renewables technologies enter a “Valley of Death,” from which they never emerge?	0
Remote monitoring: Verifying geographical arms limits	0
Will AI make us crazy?	0
If you worry about humanity, you should be more scared of humans than of AI	0
United States nuclear weapons, 2025	0
How Fukushima’s radioactive fallout in Tokyo was concealed from the public	0
Lessons to be drawn from the search for Iraqi WMD	0
“When it comes to Russia, it’s like living in a volcano”: An interview with Farida Rustamova, an independent reporter working in Putin’s Russia	0
Renewable ammonia: The future of fuels?	0
North Korean nuclear weapons, 2021	0
Israeli nuclear weapons, 2021	0
Perspectives on UNSCOM and UNMOVIC: An interview with Nikita Smidovich	0
Smart devices, cell phone cameras, social shaming and the loss of the right to a private self: Interview with Michel Paradis about the modern panopticon	0
“H is For Hope” sounded a lot better than “D is For Despair”: Interview with Elizabeth Kolbert about climate change	0
Interview: Diane Randall, director general of the Friends Committee on National Legislation, discusses restraining the US defense budget	0
Apocalypse now? Mortality and mental health correlates of the Doomsday Clock	0
A China-US war in space: The after-action report	0
Why the final frontier should not become the final battleground	0
Plant power: Burning biomass instead of coal can help fight climate change—but only if done right	0
Climate anxiety is not a mental health problem. But we should still treat it as one	0
Introduction: Fusion, the next big thing—again?	0
Is nuclear power sustainable in a carbon-free world? The case of Sweden	0
Interview with Graham Allison: Are the United States and China charging into Thucydides’s trap?	0
An overview of the fusion landscape	0
Does wood bioenergy help or harm the climate?	0
Diversification from Russian nuclear fuel requires market-oriented solutions	0
Correction	0
The complicating role of the private sector in space	0
Deterring a Chinese military attack on Taiwan	0
Fukushima: Lessons learned from a devastating “near-miss”	0
Sociotechnical risks posed by the geologic disposal of weapons plutonium	0
‘Fragile, impermanent things’: Joseph Tainter on what makes civilizations fall	0
What a Cold War crisis over Taiwan could tell us about China-Russia relations today	0
Exchanging atoms for influence: Competition in Southeast Asia’s nuclear market	0
Alan Miller: How the News Literacy Project teaches schoolchildren (and adults) to dismiss and debunk internet disinformation	0
The United States and stability in the Taiwan Strait	0
Water and war	0
How demagogues destroy democracy: A step-by-step global guide	0
Figuring out the most realistic projections for sea-level rise: Interview with glaciologist Rob DeConto	0
The long view: Strategic arms control after the New START Treaty	0
Climate change and water scarcity will increase risk of nuclear catastrophe in South Asia	0
A new transatlantic division of labor could save billions every year!	0
The United States needs to cut military spending and shift money to two pressing threats: Pandemics and climate change	0
Book excerpt—Catastrophic climate change: Lessons from the dinosaurs	0
Is the AMOC headed for a tipping point? Interview with Henk Dijkstra	0
It’s time to reignite US-Russia cooperation in space. Nuclear power may hold the key	0
Correction	0
Interview: California Congressman Ted Lieu on what you, as a citizen, can do about existential threats	0
Bill McKibben explains what individuals can do to win the climate fight. Together	0
Introduction: The brave new world of the high-tech surveillance state	0
Wood-burning: Carbon hero or carbon villain. Q&A with forest modeling scientist Michael Ter-Mikaelian	0
The Alps’ iconic glaciers are melting, but there’s still time to save the biggest	0
Chinese nuclear weapons, 2023	0
North Korean nuclear weapons, 2022	0
Charging ahead: Steven Chu, Nobel Prize-winner and former energy secretary, on today’s battery research—and more	0
Becoming a responsible ancestor	0
Why President Biden needs to revisit—and reduce—his defense budget	0
After Putin – what?	0
Creating a model democratic alternative to the surveillance state	0
Interview: Tom Collina of the Ploughshares Fund on the politics of defense spending	0
Why what happened to Oppenheimer then is relevant now	0
Distressing a system in distress: global nuclear order and Russia’s war against Ukraine	0
Collateral damage: American civilian survivors of the 1945 Trinity test	0
Russian nuclear weapons, 2024	0
Russia’s economy is much more than a “big gas station.” Under sanctions, that’s now its biggest problem	0
United States nuclear weapons, 2024	0
When glaciers calve: Large underwater tsunamis discovered at edge of Antarctica, likely affecting ice melt, climate and marine ecosystem	0
Meme warfare: AI countermeasures to disinformation should focus on popular, not perfect, fakes	0
Climate change will surprise us, but so-called ‘tipping points’ may lead us astray	0
Interview: Catherine Bertini on eliminating hunger in a changing climate	0