Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Article	Citations
We cannot afford another lost year for food and climate action	68
“He did not speak the ordinary language”: Memories of Oppie from a Manhattan Project physicist	36
Introduction: Why some renewable technologies will perish in – and others survive – the “Valley of Death”	18
An extended interview with Christopher Nolan, director of Oppenheimer	16
Machine learning improves satellite imagery analysis of North Korean nuclear activity	15
Correction	14
Interview with Susan Solomon: The healing of the ozone hole, and what else we can learn from atmospheric near-misses	13
Final thoughts: The fragile connection of safety and science in the geological disposal of radioactive waste	12
Constitutional mistakes of the past can tyrannize the present—But we can fix them	9
The impact of DOGE’s funding cuts on biomedical research, from the point of view of former NIH director Monica Bertagnolli	8
How we know Antarctica is rapidly losing more ice	8
Russian nuclear weapons, 2025	8
To reassure Taiwan and deter China, the United States should learn from history	8
The changing nuclear landscape in Europe	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
Nichols presents charges	7
“Sustainable” biomass: A paper tiger when it comes to reducing carbon emissions	7
RFK Jr.’s presidential ambitions may have fallen short, but his anti-vax beliefs are winning in many statehouses	7
Whence nuclear power in the 21st century?	6
Michael Mann, on how the second US withdrawal from the Paris agreement may alter the world’s climate change landscape	6
United Kingdom nuclear weapons, 2024	6
“Like writing the biography of a ghost”—Interview with Jeff Goodell, author of The Heat Will Kill You First	6
Cyberstorm on the horizon: David Sanger on what two recent breaches reveal about modern warfare	6
Nuclear weapons sharing, 2023	5

Stopping the Clock on catastrophic AI risk	5
The path to compulsory voting	4
What happens when seeing is no longer believing?	4
North Korea: A renewed flash point or continuity of the status quo?	4
Oppenheimer’s tragedy—and ours	4
“Expertise is not only not valued by this administration, it’s inherently suspicious to them”—Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman	3
Regenerative agriculture sequesters carbon—But that’s not the only benefit and shouldn’t be the only goal	3
Interview: Emerging military technology expert Paul Scharre on global power dynamics in the AI age	3
Introduction: (Almost) everything you wanted to know about tipping points, but were too afraid to ask	3
Preserving the nuclear test ban after Russia revoked its CTBT ratification	3
North Korean nuclear weapons, 2024	3
Chinese nuclear weapons, 2025	3
Eighty years and 89 seconds: It’s time to fight against midnight	3
Interview: Lawrence Norden on US election security	3
Putin’s psychology and nuclear weapons: The fundamentalist mindset	3
Introduction: Bringing the world’s food production in line with global climate goals	3
“The world has already ended”: Britt Wray on living with the horror and trauma of climate crisis	3
Oppenheimer Replies	3
Cis-lunar space and the security dilemma	3
AI misinformation detectors can’t save us from tyranny—at least not yet	3
Peak water in an era of climate change	3
Environmental impacts of underground nuclear weapons testing	2
Glass and ceramic nuclear waste forms: The scientific battle	2
Stolen billions from errant mouse clicks: Crypto requires new approaches to attack money-laundering	2
How to leverage positive tipping points for climate action	2
The final countdown to site selection for Canada’s nuclear waste geologic repository	2
Laying the groundwork for long-duration energy storage	2
Fiona Hill: What Putin (and Trump?) might do next, after Ukraine	2
Oppenheimer: The man behind the movie	2
French nuclear weapons, 2023	2
The war in Ukraine shows the game-changing effect of drones depends on the game	2
Introduction: Can we grow and burn our way out of climate change?	2
Russian nuclear weapons, 2022	2
Bulletin statement on the Energy Department’s Oppenheimer decision	2
Microchips in humans: Consumer-friendly app, or new frontier in surveillance?	2
Interview with Sneha Revanur, “the Greta Thunberg of AI”	2
Will the Trump administration attempt to annex Greenland, Canada, or somewhere else? A prominent historian’s take	2
Not your grandparents’ Cold War: Why America should emphasize economic rather than military strategies in its rivalry with China	1
Figuring out the most realistic projections for sea-level rise: Interview with glaciologist Rob DeConto	1
What do we really know about urban agriculture’s impact on people, places, and the planet?	1
Introduction: Near-misses, close calls, and early warnings	1
Algorithms of misperception: Managing nuclear risk in an AI world	1
Why a mind-set of stubborn optimism about the climate crisis is needed, now more than ever	1
Will Israel strike Iran’s nuclear facilities with US support?	1
Book excerpt—Catastrophic climate change: Lessons from the dinosaurs	1
Why will some promising renewables technologies enter a “Valley of Death,” from which they never emerge?	1
Pandemic risks: Are there some genetic experiments that simply should not be done?	1
How to deal with an AI near-miss: Look to the skies	1
Trust but verify: How to get there by using next-generation nuclear verification and warhead dismantlement techniques	1
Nuclear testing in the 21st century—legacy, tensions, and risks	1

The horrors of nuclear weapons testing	1
Introduction: Climate change—where are we now?	1
Despite challenges, US-Russian nuclear arms control has its benefits	1
To do or not to do: Pyongyang’s seventh nuclear test calculations	1
Nerds, ninjas, and neutrons: The story of the Nuclear Emergency Support Team	1
Burning biomass: A Drax-tic idea, and bad for environmental justice	1
Introduction: The brave new world of the high-tech surveillance state	1
Correction	1
Lessons learned in blood: Why we fail to use near-misses to prevent man-made disasters	1
Global and regional confrontation in South and Southeast Asia	1
Sonia Shah on pandemics and pushback: Lessons from the COVID experience	1
Able Archer: How close of a call was it?	1
Exchanging atoms for influence: Competition in Southeast Asia’s nuclear market	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
United States nuclear weapons, 2022	1
Indian nuclear weapons, 2024	1
Climate change will surprise us, but so-called ‘tipping points’ may lead us astray	1
Introduction: how to negotiate the China-Taiwan impasse	1
Why and how the debate about nuclear energy needs to be reframed for the future	1
Interview with Eric Schlosser: Why we can’t trust the government’s figures about nuclear close calls	1
Oppenheimer—“A very mysterious and delphic character.” Interview with Kai Bird, author of American Prometheus	1
Is scientific reticence hindering climate understanding?	0
French nuclear weapons, 2025	0
(Trying to) keep it cool: Vladimir Romanovsky on permafrost fieldwork	0
Israeli nuclear weapons, 2021	0
Interview: California Congressman Ted Lieu on what you, as a citizen, can do about existential threats	0
Interview: Catherine Bertini on eliminating hunger in a changing climate	0
A reality check and a way forward for the global governance of artificial intelligence	0
The campaign volunteer who used AI to help swing Pakistan’s elections: Interview with Jibran Ilyas	0
Sure, deter China—but manage risk with North Korea, too	0
Decisions about AI will last decades. Researchers need better frameworks	0
Will AI make us crazy?	0
‘Fragile, impermanent things’: Joseph Tainter on what makes civilizations fall	0
United States nuclear weapons, 2023	0
A China-US war in space: The after-action report	0
Why the final frontier should not become the final battleground	0
Introduction: Possible flashpoints for the next major conflict	0
Six ways AI could cause the next big war, and why it probably won’t	0
Charging ahead: Steven Chu, Nobel Prize-winner and former energy secretary, on today’s battery research—and more	0
Carlos Nobre on tipping points in the Amazon rainforest	0
Harvard’s Graham Allison on the second Trump administration and the international security order	0
When glaciers calve: Large underwater tsunamis discovered at edge of Antarctica, likely affecting ice melt, climate and marine ecosystem	0
Bill McKibben explains what individuals can do to win the climate fight. Together	0
Blockchain beyond cryptocurrency: A revolution in information management and international security	0
Chinese nuclear weapons, 2023	0
Pakistan nuclear weapons, 2023	0
United States nuclear weapons, 2025	0
Does ‘net zero’ mean zero cows?	0
Sanctioning Russia’s oligarchs – with shame	0
Conditional restraint: Why the India-Pakistan Kargil War is not a case of nuclear deterrence	0
China and the United States: It’s a Cold War, but don’t panic	0
Praying for the ice (and snow, and water) as the climate changes	0
Deterring a Chinese military attack on Taiwan	0
What do ordinary Russians think? Interview with a Russian independent reporter	0
The entanglement of fusion energy research and bombs	0
Building a nuclear off-ramp following the war in Ukraine	0
The trouble with Taiwan	0
What a Cold War crisis over Taiwan could tell us about China-Russia relations today	0
Collateral damage: American civilian survivors of the 1945 Trinity test	0
Climate change and water scarcity will increase risk of nuclear catastrophe in South Asia	0
Orville Schell on China vs. Taiwan in the Trump 2.0 era	0
Creating a model democratic alternative to the surveillance state	0
The enduring risks and new challenges of nuclear materials: A special issue dedicated to Rodney C. Ewing’s scientific and policy contributions	0
‘He’s basically running a reality TV show’: Francis Gavin on Trump’s impact on the US, its allies, and the post-war world order	0
Ferreting out the truth about fusion: Interview with Bob Rosner	0
Indian nuclear weapons, 2022	0
Distressing a system in distress: global nuclear order and Russia’s war against Ukraine	0
How to avoid nuclear war with China	0
Will the next world war begin in orbit? Jonathan McDowell on strategic competition in space	0
AI and atoms: How artificial intelligence is revolutionizing nuclear material production	0
Water and war	0
Apocalypse now? Mortality and mental health correlates of the Doomsday Clock	0
The United States and stability in the Taiwan Strait	0
The future of global health, without the United States	0
To protect democratic values, journalism must save itself	0
Interview with Graham Allison: Are the United States and China charging into Thucydides’s trap?	0
Renewable ammonia: The future of fuels?	0
Climate anxiety is not a mental health problem. But we should still treat it as one	0
The complicating role of the private sector in space	0

Use all the tools of the trade: Building a foundation for the next era of biosecurity	0
An overview of the fusion landscape	0
Pakistan nuclear weapons, 2025	0
Russian nuclear weapons, 2024	0
How my Gen Z students learned to start worrying and dismantle the Bomb	0
Is Ukraine still a possible flashpoint for a larger war?	0
What if potatoes grew on trees? An interview with the Breadfruit Institute’s Diane Ragone	0
A US history of not conducting cyber attacks	0
One if by invasion, two if by coercion: US military capacity to protect Taiwan from China	0
Becoming a responsible ancestor	0
Introduction: What you can do to turn back the hands of the Clock	0
Introduction: Fusion, the next big thing—again?	0
Introduction: Securing elections, democracy, and the information ecosystem in a critical political year	0
The Alps’ iconic glaciers are melting, but there’s still time to save the biggest	0
Looming climate doomsday demands creativity, ambition, and societal transformation	0
How demagogues destroy democracy: A step-by-step global guide	0
Fusion power: The uncertain certainty	0
How AI can slow the rise of antibiotic-resistant “superbugs”	0
The long view: Strategic arms control after the New START Treaty	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
After the fall: Bitcoin’s true legacy may be blockchain technology	0
New confidence-building measures can reduce tensions around subcritical tests	0
Introduction: How the Trump administration has upended international relations and increased existential risk	0
Sociotechnical risks posed by the geologic disposal of weapons plutonium	0
Introduction: The hype, peril, and promise of artificial intelligence	0
Diversification from Russian nuclear fuel requires market-oriented solutions	0
Redefining the wildfire problem and scaling solutions to meet the challenge	0
Introduction: How to stop the next pandemic	0
North Korean nuclear weapons, 2022	0
If you worry about humanity, you should be more scared of humans than of AI	0
Where climate journalism is now: Interview with Emily Atkin, the fire behind the Heated climate newsletter	0
United States nuclear weapons, 2024	0
Fukushima: Lessons learned from a devastating “near-miss”	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
Remote monitoring: Verifying geographical arms limits	0
Wood-burning: Carbon hero or carbon villain. Q&A with forest modeling scientist Michael Ter-Mikaelian	0
Amplifying doubt: How Russian trolls leveraged pandemic uncertainty for strategic gain	0
Why what happened to Oppenheimer then is relevant now	0
Space Force: Fact or fiction?	0
The brightest light at the end of the tunnel	0
Small and advanced nuclear reactors: Closing the fuel cycle?	0
The United States isn’t prepared for another pandemic. Here’s what should happen	0
Introduction: The unintended—and undermanaged—consequences of blockchain and cryptocurrency	0
The high-tech surveillance state is not restricted to China: Interview with Maya Wang of Human Rights Watch	0
Russian nuclear weapons, 2023	0
Greenland ice loss cannot be stopped—but it can and must be slowed	0
Containment vs. confrontation: Trump 2.0 and a nuclear Iran	0
The logic for US ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty	0
Plant power: Burning biomass instead of coal can help fight climate change—but only if done right	0
Golden Dome and arms control: Impediment or opportunity?	0
After Putin – what?	0
Autocracy and the university in America today	0
Division begets division in the age of algorithmic classification	0
Introduction: Can the United States and China co-exist in the 21st century? Will they?	0
“H is For Hope” sounded a lot better than “D is For Despair”: Interview with Elizabeth Kolbert about climate change	0
The recent past and foreseeable future of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists : A conversation	0
The ‘holy grail’ of pandemic preparedness: The search for a universal vaccine	0
After ITER: What China and others are doing in fusion. Interview with MIT’s Dennis Whyte	0
The future of technology: Lessons from China	0
Russia’s economy is much more than a “big gas station.” Under sanctions, that’s now its biggest problem	0
Correction	0
Interview: Robert Latiff on the worsening international security situation in space	0
“It’s a different kind of world we’re living in now”: Interview with Francis Fukuyama	0
An interview about the 2024 election with Harper Reed, chief technology officer for Obama 2012	0
How bitcoin makes burning fossil fuels more profitable than ever	0
Pandemics, public health, and popular support: What history can tell us	0
When burning wood to generate energy makes climate sense	0
The climate consequences of the US-Russia global realignment	0
Popping the chatbot hype balloon	0
Does wood bioenergy help or harm the climate?	0
Lessons from former arms control negotiators	0
“Fusion is not a typical bet.” Interview with Silicon Valley venture capitalist Mark Coopersmith	0
Obama’s science adviser on Trump’s science cuts: ”The system will starve”	0
How Fukushima’s radioactive fallout in Tokyo was concealed from the public	0
Introduction – Russia: what to expect next?	0
Chinese nuclear weapons, 2024	0
Is the AMOC headed for a tipping point? Interview with Henk Dijkstra	0
The fuel supply quandary of fusion power reactors	0