Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Article	Citations
Introduction: UNSCOM and the future of WMD verification	43
To do or not to do: Pyongyang’s seventh nuclear test calculations	27
Interview: Robert Latiff on the worsening international security situation in space	24
Puzzling out the Iraqi biological weapons program	16
Some long-term effects of UNSCOM: People are important, or, therein lies much of the problem	15
Cis-lunar space and the security dilemma	13
Oppenheimer Replies	11
Perspectives on UNSCOM and UNMOVIC: An interview with Nikita Smidovich	11
We cannot afford another lost year for food and climate action	9
It’s time to reignite US-Russia cooperation in space. Nuclear power may hold the key	9
Regenerative agriculture sequesters carbon—But that’s not the only benefit and shouldn’t be the only goal	8
Praying for the ice (and snow, and water) as the climate changes	8
Collateral damage: American civilian survivors of the 1945 Trinity test	8
“H is For Hope” sounded a lot better than “D is For Despair”: Interview with Elizabeth Kolbert about climate change	7
Monitoring Iraq’s dual-use capabilities: An interview with Gabriele Kraatz-Wadsack	7
Opportunities for US-Russian collaboration on the safe disposal of nuclear waste	7
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	6
Diversification from Russian nuclear fuel requires market-oriented solutions	6
A China-US war in space: The after-action report	6
The trouble with Taiwan	5
China and the United States: It’s a Cold War, but don’t panic	5
“It’s a different kind of world we’re living in now”: Interview with Francis Fukuyama	5
Burning biomass: A Drax-tic idea, and bad for environmental justice	4
Nuclear fear: The irrational obstacle to real climate action	4
Greenland ice loss cannot be stopped—but it can and must be slowed	4

I gave my baby tooth to science: Project Sunshine’s role in the Limited Test Ban Treaty and cutting-edge pollution research	4
When burning wood to generate energy makes climate sense	4
United States nuclear weapons, 2022	4
Interview: Tom Collina of the Ploughshares Fund on the politics of defense spending	3
The long view: Strategic arms control after the New START Treaty	3
“The world has already ended”: Britt Wray on living with the horror and trauma of climate crisis	3
An extended interview with Christopher Nolan, director of Oppenheimer	2
Introduction: How to dial back a disinformation dystopia	2
Introduction: (Almost) everything you wanted to know about tipping points, but were too afraid to ask	2
Introduction: Near-misses, close calls, and early warnings	2
Avoiding an unintentional space war: Lessons from Cold War nuclear diplomacy	2
A perspective on UNSCOM culture	2
Where climate journalism is now: Interview with Emily Atkin, the fire behind the Heated climate newsletter	2
Is scientific reticence hindering climate understanding?	2
Interview: Lawrence Norden on US election security	2
Long-duration energy storage for reliable renewable electricity: The realistic possibilities	2
Space Force: Fact or fiction?	2
Indian nuclear weapons, 2024	2
The campaign volunteer who used AI to help swing Pakistan’s elections: Interview with Jibran Ilyas	2
Introduction: Climate change—where are we now?	2
Introduction: Why some renewable technologies will perish in – and others survive – the “Valley of Death”	1
The Oppenheimer case: A study in the abuse of law	1
Building a nuclear off-ramp following the war in Ukraine	1
“Fusion is not a typical bet.” Interview with Silicon Valley venture capitalist Mark Coopersmith	1
Preserving the nuclear test ban after Russia revoked its CTBT ratification	1
How Fukushima’s radioactive fallout in Tokyo was concealed from the public	1
Glass and ceramic nuclear waste forms: The scientific battle	1
Putin’s psychology and nuclear weapons: The fundamentalist mindset	1
Peak water in an era of climate change	1
AI misinformation detectors can’t save us from tyranny—at least not yet	1
Alan Miller: How the News Literacy Project teaches schoolchildren (and adults) to dismiss and debunk internet disinformation	1
The complicating role of the private sector in space	1
Despite challenges, US-Russian nuclear arms control has its benefits	1
Russian nuclear weapons, 2024	1
A reality check and a way forward for the global governance of artificial intelligence	1
Nuclear testing in the 21st century—legacy, tensions, and risks	1
“He did not speak the ordinary language”: Memories of Oppie from a Manhattan Project physicist	1
Water and war	1
Chinese nuclear weapons, 2021	1
Not your grandparents’ Cold War: Why America should emphasize economic rather than military strategies in its rivalry with China	1
North Korean nuclear weapons, 2024	1
The enduring risks and new challenges of nuclear materials: A special issue dedicated to Rodney C. Ewing’s scientific and policy contributions	1
Chinese nuclear weapons, 2024	1
Interview: Emerging military technology expert Paul Scharre on global power dynamics in the AI age	1
Renewable ammonia: The future of fuels?	1
After the fall: Bitcoin’s true legacy may be blockchain technology	0
Introduction: Can we grow and burn our way out of climate change?	0
The Swiss cheese model for mitigating online misinformation	0
Can small modular reactors help mitigate climate change?	0
How the renewables revolution can move from catchphrase to reality	0

The five things that must happen for renewables to fit into the grid: Interview with Greg Nemet	0
An overview of the fusion landscape	0
One if by invasion, two if by coercion: US military capacity to protect Taiwan from China	0
How my Gen Z students learned to start worrying and dismantle the Bomb	0
AI and atoms: How artificial intelligence is revolutionizing nuclear material production	0
When glaciers calve: Large underwater tsunamis discovered at edge of Antarctica, likely affecting ice melt, climate and marine ecosystem	0
Small and advanced nuclear reactors: Closing the fuel cycle?	0
Nerds, ninjas, and neutrons: The story of the Nuclear Emergency Support Team	0
How countries can build on UNSCOM’s legacy to solve today’s problems	0
What do ordinary Russians think? Interview with a Russian independent reporter	0
New confidence-building measures can reduce tensions around subcritical tests	0
Russian nuclear weapons, 2022	0
‘Fragile, impermanent things’: Joseph Tainter on what makes civilizations fall	0
Pakistan nuclear weapons, 2023	0
Fukushima: Lessons learned from a devastating “near-miss”	0
Able Archer: How close of a call was it?	0
Deterring a Chinese military attack on Taiwan	0
North Korean nuclear weapons, 2022	0
Do Germany and the Netherlands want to say goodbye to US nuclear weapons?	0
Indian nuclear weapons, 2022	0
Ferreting out the truth about fusion: Interview with Bob Rosner	0
Laying the groundwork for long-duration energy storage	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
Exchanging atoms for influence: Competition in Southeast Asia’s nuclear market	0
Redefining the wildfire problem and scaling solutions to meet the challenge	0
Remote monitoring: Verifying geographical arms limits	0
The entanglement of fusion energy research and bombs	0
Oppenheimer—“A very mysterious and delphic character.” Interview with Kai Bird, author of American Prometheus	0
Pakistani nuclear weapons, 2021	0
The United States needs to cut military spending and shift money to two pressing threats: Pandemics and climate change	0
Climate anxiety is not a mental health problem. But we should still treat it as one	0
Apocalypse now? Mortality and mental health correlates of the Doomsday Clock	0
How to avoid nuclear war with China	0
Stolen billions from errant mouse clicks: Crypto requires new approaches to attack money-laundering	0
Introduction: The unintended—and undermanaged—consequences of blockchain and cryptocurrency	0
Does wood bioenergy help or harm the climate?	0
United Kingdom nuclear weapons, 2021	0
After Putin – what?	0
Environmental impacts of underground nuclear weapons testing	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
After ITER: What China and others are doing in fusion. Interview with MIT’s Dennis Whyte	0
Interview with Eric Schlosser: Why we can’t trust the government’s figures about nuclear close calls	0
We need to act now to ensure global food security, and reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions	0
Introduction: Can the United States and China co-exist in the 21st century? Will they?	0
The path to compulsory voting	0
United Kingdom nuclear weapons, 2024	0
To protect democratic values, journalism must save itself	0
Nichols presents charges	0
Introduction: how to negotiate the China-Taiwan impasse	0
Figuring out the most realistic projections for sea-level rise: Interview with glaciologist Rob DeConto	0
Climate change and water scarcity will increase risk of nuclear catastrophe in South Asia	0
Becoming a responsible ancestor	0
The history of nuclear power’s imagined future: Plutonium’s journey from asset to waste	0
What a Cold War crisis over Taiwan could tell us about China-Russia relations today	0
Why the final frontier should not become the final battleground	0
The Alps’ iconic glaciers are melting, but there’s still time to save the biggest	0
Introduction – Russia: what to expect next?	0
Distressing a system in distress: global nuclear order and Russia’s war against Ukraine	0
Climate change will surprise us, but so-called ‘tipping points’ may lead us astray	0
Final thoughts: The fragile connection of safety and science in the geological disposal of radioactive waste	0
Why a mind-set of stubborn optimism about the climate crisis is needed, now more than ever	0
Constitutional mistakes of the past can tyrannize the present—But we can fix them	0
Legal and political myths of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons	0
Machine learning improves satellite imagery analysis of North Korean nuclear activity	0
Countries have more than 100 laws on the books to combat misinformation. How well do they work?	0
Introduction: The hype, peril, and promise of artificial intelligence	0
United States nuclear weapons, 2024	0
Meme warfare: AI countermeasures to disinformation should focus on popular, not perfect, fakes	0
Sociotechnical risks posed by the geologic disposal of weapons plutonium	0
The logic for US ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty	0
Creating a model democratic alternative to the surveillance state	0
Introduction: Bringing the world’s food production in line with global climate goals	0
Introduction: Securing elections, democracy, and the information ecosystem in a critical political year	0
Interview with Graham Allison: Are the United States and China charging into Thucydides’s trap?	0
North Korean nuclear weapons, 2021	0
Is the AMOC headed for a tipping point? Interview with Henk Dijkstra	0
Nuclear energy: A distraction on the road to climate solutions	0
The high-tech surveillance state is not restricted to China: Interview with Maya Wang of Human Rights Watch	0
Will AI make us crazy?	0

Introduction: Fusion, the next big thing—again?	0
Global and regional confrontation in South and Southeast Asia	0
UNSCOM: A successful experiment in disarmament	0
French nuclear weapons, 2023	0
Instead of reforming Facebook, should we just build something else?	0
Nuclear weapons sharing, 2023	0
Interview: California Congressman Ted Lieu on what you, as a citizen, can do about existential threats	0
A US history of not conducting cyber attacks	0
Oppenheimer: The man behind the movie	0
Nuclear-free NYC: How New Yorkers are disarming the legacies of the Manhattan Project	0
Charging ahead: Steven Chu, Nobel Prize-winner and former energy secretary, on today’s battery research—and more	0
The war in Ukraine shows the game-changing effect of drones depends on the game	0
Lessons to be drawn from the search for Iraqi WMD	0
If you worry about humanity, you should be more scared of humans than of AI	0
The horrors of nuclear weapons testing	0
Correction	0
An interview about the 2024 election with Harper Reed, chief technology officer for Obama 2012	0
Lessons learned in blood: Why we fail to use near-misses to prevent man-made disasters	0
The future of technology: Lessons from China	0
Interview: Catherine Bertini on eliminating hunger in a changing climate	0
Is nuclear power sustainable in a carbon-free world? The case of Sweden	0
Does ‘net zero’ mean zero cows?	0
The final countdown to site selection for Canada’s nuclear waste geologic repository	0
Interview: Diane Randall, director general of the Friends Committee on National Legislation, discusses restraining the US defense budget	0
Sure, deter China—but manage risk with North Korea, too	0
The fuel supply quandary of fusion power reactors	0
Conditional restraint: Why the India-Pakistan Kargil War is not a case of nuclear deterrence	0
United States nuclear weapons, 2025	0
Trust but verify: How to get there by using next-generation nuclear verification and warhead dismantlement techniques	0
To reassure Taiwan and deter China, the United States should learn from history	0
Popping the chatbot hype balloon	0
Russia’s economy is much more than a “big gas station.” Under sanctions, that’s now its biggest problem	0
Introduction: Can we make overspending on the military politically costly?	0
RFK Jr.’s presidential ambitions may have fallen short, but his anti-vax beliefs are winning in many statehouses	0
How bitcoin makes burning fossil fuels more profitable than ever	0
(Trying to) keep it cool: Vladimir Romanovsky on permafrost fieldwork	0
UNSCOM’s work to uncover Iraq’s illicit biological weapons program: A primer	0
Interview with Susan Solomon: The healing of the ozone hole, and what else we can learn from atmospheric near-misses	0
What do we really know about urban agriculture’s impact on people, places, and the planet?	0
Correction	0
Why will some promising renewables technologies enter a “Valley of Death,” from which they never emerge?	0
A new transatlantic division of labor could save billions every year!	0
What if potatoes grew on trees? An interview with the Breadfruit Institute’s Diane Ragone	0
United States nuclear weapons, 2023	0
“Like writing the biography of a ghost”—Interview with Jeff Goodell, author of The Heat Will Kill You First	0
Sanctioning Russia’s oligarchs – with shame	0
Russian nuclear weapons, 2023	0
Carlos Nobre on tipping points in the Amazon rainforest	0
Bulletin statement on the Energy Department’s Oppenheimer decision	0
Interview with Sam West, founder of the Museum of Failure	0
Fusion power: The uncertain certainty	0
Wood-burning: Carbon hero or carbon villain. Q&A with forest modeling scientist Michael Ter-Mikaelian	0
How we know Antarctica is rapidly losing more ice	0
Between two wars	0
Offshore wind: Poised for the big time. An interview with Anthony Kirincich	0
The United States and stability in the Taiwan Strait	0
Chinese nuclear weapons, 2023	0
“Sustainable” biomass: A paper tiger when it comes to reducing carbon emissions	0
Book excerpt—Catastrophic climate change: Lessons from the dinosaurs	0
Chinese nuclear weapons, 2025	0
How to leverage positive tipping points for climate action	0
Microchips in humans: Consumer-friendly app, or new frontier in surveillance?	0
Plant power: Burning biomass instead of coal can help fight climate change—but only if done right	0
Introduction: What you can do to turn back the hands of the Clock	0
Oppenheimer’s tragedy—and ours	0
Israeli nuclear weapons, 2021	0
Interview with Sneha Revanur, “the Greta Thunberg of AI”	0
Introduction: The brave new world of the high-tech surveillance state	0
Correction	0
How demagogues destroy democracy: A step-by-step global guide	0
How to deal with an AI near-miss: Look to the skies	0
Why what happened to Oppenheimer then is relevant now	0
Why President Biden needs to revisit—and reduce—his defense budget	0