Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Article	Citations
Puzzling out the Iraqi biological weapons program	48
We cannot afford another lost year for food and climate action	27
“He did not speak the ordinary language”: Memories of Oppie from a Manhattan Project physicist	15
Introduction: Why some renewable technologies will perish in – and others survive – the “Valley of Death”	14
A perspective on UNSCOM culture	12
An extended interview with Christopher Nolan, director of Oppenheimer	11
Machine learning improves satellite imagery analysis of North Korean nuclear activity	10
Correction	9
Russian nuclear weapons, 2025	9
The impact of DOGE’s funding cuts on biomedical research, from the point of view of former NIH director Monica Bertagnolli	9
Interview with Susan Solomon: The healing of the ozone hole, and what else we can learn from atmospheric near-misses	8
Constitutional mistakes of the past can tyrannize the present—But we can fix them	8
To reassure Taiwan and deter China, the United States should learn from history	7
How we know Antarctica is rapidly losing more ice	7
Final thoughts: The fragile connection of safety and science in the geological disposal of radioactive waste	7
“Sustainable” biomass: A paper tiger when it comes to reducing carbon emissions	7
Interview with Sam West, founder of the Museum of Failure	6
Nuclear-free NYC: How New Yorkers are disarming the legacies of the Manhattan Project	6
“Like writing the biography of a ghost”—Interview with Jeff Goodell, author of The Heat Will Kill You First	6
Nichols presents charges	6
Nuclear weapons sharing, 2023	5
United Kingdom nuclear weapons, 2024	5
RFK Jr.’s presidential ambitions may have fallen short, but his anti-vax beliefs are winning in many statehouses	5
Nuclear fear: The irrational obstacle to real climate action	4
Chinese nuclear weapons, 2025	4

The path to compulsory voting	4
Can small modular reactors help mitigate climate change?	4
Oppenheimer’s tragedy—and ours	4
Regenerative agriculture sequesters carbon—But that’s not the only benefit and shouldn’t be the only goal	3
Cis-lunar space and the security dilemma	3
“The world has already ended”: Britt Wray on living with the horror and trauma of climate crisis	3
Oppenheimer Replies	3
Interview: Emerging military technology expert Paul Scharre on global power dynamics in the AI age	3
Introduction: Bringing the world’s food production in line with global climate goals	2
AI misinformation detectors can’t save us from tyranny—at least not yet	2
Russian nuclear weapons, 2022	2
North Korean nuclear weapons, 2024	2
Oppenheimer: The man behind the movie	2
Glass and ceramic nuclear waste forms: The scientific battle	2
Putin’s psychology and nuclear weapons: The fundamentalist mindset	2
Peak water in an era of climate change	2
Preserving the nuclear test ban after Russia revoked its CTBT ratification	2
Bulletin statement on the Energy Department’s Oppenheimer decision	2
The five things that must happen for renewables to fit into the grid: Interview with Greg Nemet	2
Interview: Lawrence Norden on US election security	2
Introduction: (Almost) everything you wanted to know about tipping points, but were too afraid to ask	2
French nuclear weapons, 2023	2
Stolen billions from errant mouse clicks: Crypto requires new approaches to attack money-laundering	2
Environmental impacts of underground nuclear weapons testing	2
Introduction: Climate change—where are we now?	1
Despite challenges, US-Russian nuclear arms control has its benefits	1
The final countdown to site selection for Canada’s nuclear waste geologic repository	1
Nerds, ninjas, and neutrons: The story of the Nuclear Emergency Support Team	1
UNSCOM: A successful experiment in disarmament	1
How the renewables revolution can move from catchphrase to reality	1
How countries can build on UNSCOM’s legacy to solve today’s problems	1
United States nuclear weapons, 2022	1
To do or not to do: Pyongyang’s seventh nuclear test calculations	1
Do Germany and the Netherlands want to say goodbye to US nuclear weapons?	1
Indian nuclear weapons, 2024	1
Introduction: Near-misses, close calls, and early warnings	1
Not your grandparents’ Cold War: Why America should emphasize economic rather than military strategies in its rivalry with China	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
Introduction: Can we make overspending on the military politically costly?	1
How to leverage positive tipping points for climate action	1
UNSCOM’s work to uncover Iraq’s illicit biological weapons program: A primer	1
Nuclear testing in the 21st century—legacy, tensions, and risks	1
Climate change will surprise us, but so-called ‘tipping points’ may lead us astray	1
Able Archer: How close of a call was it?	1
Pakistani nuclear weapons, 2021	1
The Oppenheimer case: A study in the abuse of law	1
Chinese nuclear weapons, 2021	1
Why a mind-set of stubborn optimism about the climate crisis is needed, now more than ever	1
We need to act now to ensure global food security, and reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions	1

The war in Ukraine shows the game-changing effect of drones depends on the game	1
Laying the groundwork for long-duration energy storage	1
Interview with Sneha Revanur, “the Greta Thunberg of AI”	1
Burning biomass: A Drax-tic idea, and bad for environmental justice	1
Introduction: how to negotiate the China-Taiwan impasse	1
What do we really know about urban agriculture’s impact on people, places, and the planet?	1
Collateral damage: American civilian survivors of the 1945 Trinity test	0
Interview: Diane Randall, director general of the Friends Committee on National Legislation, discusses restraining the US defense budget	0
After ITER: What China and others are doing in fusion. Interview with MIT’s Dennis Whyte	0
Is the AMOC headed for a tipping point? Interview with Henk Dijkstra	0
“H is For Hope” sounded a lot better than “D is For Despair”: Interview with Elizabeth Kolbert about climate change	0
Small and advanced nuclear reactors: Closing the fuel cycle?	0
The fuel supply quandary of fusion power reactors	0
Indian nuclear weapons, 2022	0
Between two wars	0
Sure, deter China—but manage risk with North Korea, too	0
An overview of the fusion landscape	0
(Trying to) keep it cool: Vladimir Romanovsky on permafrost fieldwork	0
Fusion power: The uncertain certainty	0
What a Cold War crisis over Taiwan could tell us about China-Russia relations today	0
Introduction: How to stop the next pandemic	0
Fukushima: Lessons learned from a devastating “near-miss”	0
What if potatoes grew on trees? An interview with the Breadfruit Institute’s Diane Ragone	0
The complicating role of the private sector in space	0
A reality check and a way forward for the global governance of artificial intelligence	0
Nuclear energy: A distraction on the road to climate solutions	0
Sociotechnical risks posed by the geologic disposal of weapons plutonium	0
Amplifying doubt: How Russian trolls leveraged pandemic uncertainty for strategic gain	0
The United States and stability in the Taiwan Strait	0
Where climate journalism is now: Interview with Emily Atkin, the fire behind the Heated climate newsletter	0
What do ordinary Russians think? Interview with a Russian independent reporter	0
Why will some promising renewables technologies enter a “Valley of Death,” from which they never emerge?	0
How to deal with an AI near-miss: Look to the skies	0
Pandemics, public health, and popular support: What history can tell us	0
Redefining the wildfire problem and scaling solutions to meet the challenge	0
Does ‘net zero’ mean zero cows?	0
China and the United States: It’s a Cold War, but don’t panic	0
Exchanging atoms for influence: Competition in Southeast Asia’s nuclear market	0
Climate change and water scarcity will increase risk of nuclear catastrophe in South Asia	0
“It’s a different kind of world we’re living in now”: Interview with Francis Fukuyama	0
Introduction: What you can do to turn back the hands of the Clock	0
The Alps’ iconic glaciers are melting, but there’s still time to save the biggest	0
Correction	0
Correction	0
If you worry about humanity, you should be more scared of humans than of AI	0
United States nuclear weapons, 2023	0
Figuring out the most realistic projections for sea-level rise: Interview with glaciologist Rob DeConto	0
Carlos Nobre on tipping points in the Amazon rainforest	0
Introduction: The hype, peril, and promise of artificial intelligence	0
Renewable ammonia: The future of fuels?	0
Remote monitoring: Verifying geographical arms limits	0
Introduction – Russia: what to expect next?	0
Diversification from Russian nuclear fuel requires market-oriented solutions	0
North Korean nuclear weapons, 2021	0
Interview with Graham Allison: Are the United States and China charging into Thucydides’s trap?	0
Greenland ice loss cannot be stopped—but it can and must be slowed	0
United States nuclear weapons, 2024	0
Apocalypse now? Mortality and mental health correlates of the Doomsday Clock	0
To protect democratic values, journalism must save itself	0
A China-US war in space: The after-action report	0
The high-tech surveillance state is not restricted to China: Interview with Maya Wang of Human Rights Watch	0
Plant power: Burning biomass instead of coal can help fight climate change—but only if done right	0
Wood-burning: Carbon hero or carbon villain. Q&A with forest modeling scientist Michael Ter-Mikaelian	0
Introduction: The brave new world of the high-tech surveillance state	0
Russian nuclear weapons, 2024	0
Will AI make us crazy?	0
Climate anxiety is not a mental health problem. But we should still treat it as one	0
Pakistan nuclear weapons, 2023	0
Introduction: Fusion, the next big thing—again?	0
The future of global health, without the United States	0
Does wood bioenergy help or harm the climate?	0
Popping the chatbot hype balloon	0
Some long-term effects of UNSCOM: People are important, or, therein lies much of the problem	0
Why the final frontier should not become the final battleground	0
Water and war	0
Deterring a Chinese military attack on Taiwan	0
“Fusion is not a typical bet.” Interview with Silicon Valley venture capitalist Mark Coopersmith	0
Ferreting out the truth about fusion: Interview with Bob Rosner	0
Distressing a system in distress: global nuclear order and Russia’s war against Ukraine	0
A new transatlantic division of labor could save billions every year!	0

How demagogues destroy democracy: A step-by-step global guide	0
When burning wood to generate energy makes climate sense	0
Lessons learned in blood: Why we fail to use near-misses to prevent man-made disasters	0
How AI can slow the rise of antibiotic-resistant “superbugs”	0
Becoming a responsible ancestor	0
The United States needs to cut military spending and shift money to two pressing threats: Pandemics and climate change	0
Interview: Robert Latiff on the worsening international security situation in space	0
Oppenheimer—“A very mysterious and delphic character.” Interview with Kai Bird, author of American Prometheus	0
Conditional restraint: Why the India-Pakistan Kargil War is not a case of nuclear deterrence	0
Bill McKibben explains what individuals can do to win the climate fight. Together	0
One if by invasion, two if by coercion: US military capacity to protect Taiwan from China	0
Trust but verify: How to get there by using next-generation nuclear verification and warhead dismantlement techniques	0
A US history of not conducting cyber attacks	0
I gave my baby tooth to science: Project Sunshine’s role in the Limited Test Ban Treaty and cutting-edge pollution research	0
How bitcoin makes burning fossil fuels more profitable than ever	0
Why President Biden needs to revisit—and reduce—his defense budget	0
The horrors of nuclear weapons testing	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
Interview: Tom Collina of the Ploughshares Fund on the politics of defense spending	0
Israeli nuclear weapons, 2021	0
Introduction: Securing elections, democracy, and the information ecosystem in a critical political year	0
Perspectives on UNSCOM and UNMOVIC: An interview with Nikita Smidovich	0
The history of nuclear power’s imagined future: Plutonium’s journey from asset to waste	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
Creating a model democratic alternative to the surveillance state	0
Charging ahead: Steven Chu, Nobel Prize-winner and former energy secretary, on today’s battery research—and more	0
Why what happened to Oppenheimer then is relevant now	0
Introduction: The unintended—and undermanaged—consequences of blockchain and cryptocurrency	0
How to avoid nuclear war with China	0
‘Fragile, impermanent things’: Joseph Tainter on what makes civilizations fall	0
Praying for the ice (and snow, and water) as the climate changes	0
United States nuclear weapons, 2025	0
Is nuclear power sustainable in a carbon-free world? The case of Sweden	0
Russia’s economy is much more than a “big gas station.” Under sanctions, that’s now its biggest problem	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
Sanctioning Russia’s oligarchs – with shame	0
The ‘holy grail’ of pandemic preparedness: The search for a universal vaccine	0
Blockchain beyond cryptocurrency: A revolution in information management and international security	0
Russian nuclear weapons, 2023	0
How my Gen Z students learned to start worrying and dismantle the Bomb	0
Chinese nuclear weapons, 2024	0
Long-duration energy storage for reliable renewable electricity: The realistic possibilities	0
Monitoring Iraq’s dual-use capabilities: An interview with Gabriele Kraatz-Wadsack	0
Is scientific reticence hindering climate understanding?	0
An interview about the 2024 election with Harper Reed, chief technology officer for Obama 2012	0
Building a nuclear off-ramp following the war in Ukraine	0
Pandemic risks: Are there some genetic experiments that simply should not be done?	0
How Fukushima’s radioactive fallout in Tokyo was concealed from the public	0
When glaciers calve: Large underwater tsunamis discovered at edge of Antarctica, likely affecting ice melt, climate and marine ecosystem	0
The future of technology: Lessons from China	0
The long view: Strategic arms control after the New START Treaty	0
Interview with Eric Schlosser: Why we can’t trust the government’s figures about nuclear close calls	0
The entanglement of fusion energy research and bombs	0
Interview: California Congressman Ted Lieu on what you, as a citizen, can do about existential threats	0
Introduction: Can the United States and China co-exist in the 21st century? Will they?	0
It’s time to reignite US-Russia cooperation in space. Nuclear power may hold the key	0
Global and regional confrontation in South and Southeast Asia	0
AI and atoms: How artificial intelligence is revolutionizing nuclear material production	0
After the fall: Bitcoin’s true legacy may be blockchain technology	0
Introduction: UNSCOM and the future of WMD verification	0
Sonia Shah on pandemics and pushback: Lessons from the COVID experience	0
Chinese nuclear weapons, 2023	0
North Korean nuclear weapons, 2022	0
New confidence-building measures can reduce tensions around subcritical tests	0
The enduring risks and new challenges of nuclear materials: A special issue dedicated to Rodney C. Ewing’s scientific and policy contributions	0
Book excerpt—Catastrophic climate change: Lessons from the dinosaurs	0
After Putin – what?	0
Offshore wind: Poised for the big time. An interview with Anthony Kirincich	0
Space Force: Fact or fiction?	0
Interview: Catherine Bertini on eliminating hunger in a changing climate	0
The trouble with Taiwan	0