Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Article	Citations
We cannot afford another lost year for food and climate action	89
A modest briefing	21
Introduction: Arms control is dead. Long live arms control	20
“He did not speak the ordinary language”: Memories of Oppie from a Manhattan Project physicist	20
Introduction: Why some renewable technologies will perish in – and others survive – the “Valley of Death”	18
As measles outbreaks grow, the economic cost of anti-vaccine misinformation could become clearer	17
Interview with Susan Solomon: The healing of the ozone hole, and what else we can learn from atmospheric near-misses	13
An extended interview with Christopher Nolan, director of Oppenheimer	13
Russian nuclear weapons, 2025	11
Final thoughts: The fragile connection of safety and science in the geological disposal of radioactive waste	10
The changing nuclear landscape in Europe	9
Constitutional mistakes of the past can tyrannize the present—But we can fix them	9
How we know Antarctica is rapidly losing more ice	9
To reassure Taiwan and deter China, the United States should learn from history	9
Nuclear-free NYC: How New Yorkers are disarming the legacies of the Manhattan Project	8
The impact of DOGE’s funding cuts on biomedical research, from the point of view of former NIH director Monica Bertagnolli	8
Interview with Sam West, founder of the Museum of Failure	7
Cyberstorm on the horizon: David Sanger on what two recent breaches reveal about modern warfare	7
“Like writing the biography of a ghost”—Interview with Jeff Goodell, author of The Heat Will Kill You First	7
Nichols presents charges	7
Michael Mann, on how the second US withdrawal from the Paris agreement may alter the world’s climate change landscape	7
Beyond managed rivalry: The non-nuclear-weapon state perspective on the future of arms control	6
RFK Jr.’s presidential ambitions may have fallen short, but his anti-vax beliefs are winning in many statehouses	5
United Kingdom nuclear weapons, 2024	5
Gattaca and the quiet doomsday of genetic determinism	5

Nuclear weapons sharing, 2023	4
What the people want	4
North Korea: A renewed flash point or continuity of the status quo?	4
Stopping the Clock on catastrophic AI risk	4
The path to compulsory voting	4
What happens when seeing is no longer believing?	4
Whence nuclear power in the 21st century?	4
Oppenheimer’s tragedy—and ours	4
Chinese nuclear weapons, 2025	4
AI misinformation detectors can’t save us from tyranny—at least not yet	3
Oppenheimer Replies	3
The hard problem	3
“The world has already ended”: Britt Wray on living with the horror and trauma of climate crisis	3
Introduction: Bringing the world’s food production in line with global climate goals	3
Regenerative agriculture sequesters carbon—But that’s not the only benefit and shouldn’t be the only goal	3
The brutal, powerful legacy of Threads	3
Peak water in an era of climate change	3
“Expertise is not only not valued by this administration, it’s inherently suspicious to them”—Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman	3
Interview: Emerging military technology expert Paul Scharre on global power dynamics in the AI age	3
Eighty years and 89 seconds: It’s time to fight against midnight	3
Interview: Lawrence Norden on US election security	3
Preserving the nuclear test ban after Russia revoked its CTBT ratification	3
Glass and ceramic nuclear waste forms: The scientific battle	2
North Korean nuclear weapons, 2024	2
Environmental impacts of underground nuclear weapons testing	2
How to leverage positive tipping points for climate action	2
How the movies (and the rest of the media) made me into an anti-nuclear weapons campaigner	2
Microchips in humans: Consumer-friendly app, or new frontier in surveillance?	2
Good boy	2
Bulletin statement on the Energy Department’s Oppenheimer decision	2
How AI use in scholarly publishing threatens research integrity, lessens trust, and invites misinformation	2
Reasonable doubt? How The Free Press covers climate change	2
Putin’s psychology and nuclear weapons: The fundamentalist mindset	2
Laying the groundwork for long-duration energy storage	2
The final countdown to site selection for Canada’s nuclear waste geologic repository	2
We need to act now to ensure global food security, and reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions	2
The war in Ukraine shows the game-changing effect of drones depends on the game	2
Oppenheimer: The man behind the movie	2
Introduction: (Almost) everything you wanted to know about tipping points, but were too afraid to ask	2
Fiona Hill: What Putin (and Trump?) might do next, after Ukraine	2
French nuclear weapons, 2023	2
Will Israel strike Iran’s nuclear facilities with US support?	2
Interview with Sneha Revanur, “the Greta Thunberg of AI”	2
Treat me like a human: The prescience of Children of Men	2
Indian nuclear weapons, 2024	1
Not your grandparents’ Cold War: Why America should emphasize economic rather than military strategies in its rivalry with China	1
The view from Moscow: The future of nuclear arms control exists, but the path is hard	1
Despite challenges, US-Russian nuclear arms control has its benefits	1
Chinese nuclear weapons, 2026	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
Sonia Shah on pandemics and pushback: Lessons from the COVID experience	1
Book excerpt—Catastrophic climate change: Lessons from the dinosaurs	1
The Oppenheimer case: A study in the abuse of law	1
Introduction: Near-misses, close calls, and early warnings	1
Why a mind-set of stubborn optimism about the climate crisis is needed, now more than ever	1
Algorithms of misperception: Managing nuclear risk in an AI world	1
Introduction: how to negotiate the China-Taiwan impasse	1
Climate change will surprise us, but so-called ‘tipping points’ may lead us astray	1
How to deal with an AI near-miss: Look to the skies	1
Oppenheimer—“A very mysterious and delphic character.” Interview with Kai Bird, author of American Prometheus	1
Figuring out the most realistic projections for sea-level rise: Interview with glaciologist Rob DeConto	1
Introduction: The brave new world of the high-tech surveillance state	1
Introduction: Climate change—where are we now?	1
Nerds, ninjas, and neutrons: The story of the Nuclear Emergency Support Team	1
Nuclear testing in the 21st century—legacy, tensions, and risks	1
Introduction: Doomsday and the movies	1
To do or not to do: Pyongyang’s seventh nuclear test calculations	1
Will the Trump administration attempt to annex Greenland, Canada, or somewhere else? A prominent historian’s take	1
Able Archer: How close of a call was it?	1
The Alps’ iconic glaciers are melting, but there’s still time to save the biggest	1
Lessons learned in blood: Why we fail to use near-misses to prevent man-made disasters	1
Pandemic risks: Are there some genetic experiments that simply should not be done?	1
The horrors of nuclear weapons testing	1
Countdown	1
What do we really know about urban agriculture’s impact on people, places, and the planet?	1
The brightest light at the end of the tunnel	0
Introduction: What you can do to turn back the hands of the Clock	0
AI and atoms: How artificial intelligence is revolutionizing nuclear material production	0
The United States isn’t prepared for another pandemic. Here’s what should happen	0
Interview: California Congressman Ted Lieu on what you, as a citizen, can do about existential threats	0
‘Fragile, impermanent things’: Joseph Tainter on what makes civilizations fall	0
When the land runs out	0
The past and future of deterrence is arms control	0
How AI can slow the rise of antibiotic-resistant “superbugs”	0
The campaign volunteer who used AI to help swing Pakistan’s elections: Interview with Jibran Ilyas	0
At the brink: How Moscow’s “dirty bomb” disinformation campaign risked a NATO-Russia war in October 2022	0
Pakistan nuclear weapons, 2025	0
French nuclear weapons, 2025	0
Tom Nichols on the arms control process, in the second Trump era	0
Division begets division in the age of algorithmic classification	0
Sanctioning Russia’s oligarchs – with shame	0
After Putin – what?	0
Harvard’s Graham Allison on the second Trump administration and the international security order	0
How to avoid nuclear war with China	0
New confidence-building measures can reduce tensions around subcritical tests	0
The Manhattan Project first created the bomb. Then they created its story—As revealed in the documentary “Bombshell”	0
Pakistan nuclear weapons, 2023	0
Becoming a responsible ancestor	0
Why people believe conspiracy theories: A political scientist’s view	0
What do ordinary Russians think? Interview with a Russian independent reporter	0
The entanglement of fusion energy research and bombs	0
Russian nuclear weapons, 2026	0
The evolution of a conspiracy-minded culture: A historian’s view	0
Deterring a Chinese military attack on Taiwan	0
What if potatoes grew on trees? An interview with the Breadfruit Institute’s Diane Ragone	0
Correction	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
(Trying to) keep it cool: Vladimir Romanovsky on permafrost fieldwork	0
Collateral damage: American civilian survivors of the 1945 Trinity test	0
Pandemics, public health, and popular support: What history can tell us	0
Arms control, risk reduction, and the art of the possible	0
United States nuclear weapons, 2025	0
The enduring risks and new challenges of nuclear materials: A special issue dedicated to Rodney C. Ewing’s scientific and policy contributions	0
Former assistant secretary Mallory Stewart on informal limits, behavioral arms control, and risk reduction	0
Amplifying doubt: How Russian trolls leveraged pandemic uncertainty for strategic gain	0
Introduction: The hype, peril, and promise of artificial intelligence	0
Why what happened to Oppenheimer then is relevant now	0
“Arms control is not about making agreements with your friends”—Interview with Jane Vaynman	0
If you worry about humanity, you should be more scared of humans than of AI	0
Interview: Catherine Bertini on eliminating hunger in a changing climate	0
United States nuclear weapons, 2023	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
Small and advanced nuclear reactors: Closing the fuel cycle?	0
Decisions about AI will last decades. Researchers need better frameworks	0
Redefining the wildfire problem and scaling solutions to meet the challenge	0
Containment vs. confrontation: Trump 2.0 and a nuclear Iran	0
Renewable ammonia: The future of fuels?	0

“H is For Hope” sounded a lot better than “D is For Despair”: Interview with Elizabeth Kolbert about climate change	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
Russian nuclear weapons, 2023	0
An overview of the fusion landscape	0
Golden Dome and arms control: Impediment or opportunity?	0
Introduction – Russia: what to expect next?	0
Why will some promising renewables technologies enter a “Valley of Death,” from which they never emerge?	0
Is Ukraine still a possible flashpoint for a larger war?	0
Use all the tools of the trade: Building a foundation for the next era of biosecurity	0
The emerging AI battlespace: Counter-AI threats to AI-powered satellite remote sensing analysis	0
Correction	0
When glaciers calve: Large underwater tsunamis discovered at edge of Antarctica, likely affecting ice melt, climate and marine ecosystem	0
Russia’s economy is much more than a “big gas station.” Under sanctions, that’s now its biggest problem	0
Carlos Nobre on tipping points in the Amazon rainforest	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
Disinformation as a multiplier of existential threat	0
A film about nuclear war “too horrifying for the medium of broadcasting”	0
Conditional restraint: Why the India-Pakistan Kargil War is not a case of nuclear deterrence	0
Orville Schell on China vs. Taiwan in the Trump 2.0 era	0
North Korean nuclear weapons, 2022	0
Ferreting out the truth about fusion: Interview with Bob Rosner	0
How my Gen Z students learned to start worrying and dismantle the Bomb	0
Lessons from former arms control negotiators	0
Sociotechnical risks posed by the geologic disposal of weapons plutonium	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
Diversification from Russian nuclear fuel requires market-oriented solutions	0
The recent past and foreseeable future of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists : A conversation	0
Popping the chatbot hype balloon	0
To protect democratic values, journalism must save itself	0
What a Cold War crisis over Taiwan could tell us about China-Russia relations today	0
Where climate journalism is now: Interview with Emily Atkin, the fire behind the Heated climate newsletter	0
Praying for the ice (and snow, and water) as the climate changes	0
Will the next world war begin in orbit? Jonathan McDowell on strategic competition in space	0
Distressing a system in distress: global nuclear order and Russia’s war against Ukraine	0
Apocalypse now? Mortality and mental health correlates of the Doomsday Clock	0
Bill McKibben explains what individuals can do to win the climate fight. Together	0
The high-tech surveillance state is not restricted to China: Interview with Maya Wang of Human Rights Watch	0
Water and war	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
United States nuclear weapons, 2024	0
On behalf of Lake Owakeela	0
Six ways AI could cause the next big war, and why it probably won’t	0
Russian nuclear weapons, 2024	0
Is scientific reticence hindering climate understanding?	0
Greenland ice loss cannot be stopped—but it can and must be slowed	0
The logic for US ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty	0
Introduction: Possible flashpoints for the next major conflict	0
The fuel supply quandary of fusion power reactors	0
Introduction: Fusion, the next big thing—again?	0
AI in the information ecosystem and its impact on nuclear escalation	0
Autocracy and the university in America today	0
Plasma weapons and deterrence in the age of emerging military technologies	0
Charging ahead: Steven Chu, Nobel Prize-winner and former energy secretary, on today’s battery research—and more	0
Chinese nuclear weapons, 2023	0
The ‘holy grail’ of pandemic preparedness: The search for a universal vaccine	0
The potential for a new Iran agreement and the future of nuclear arms control: Interview with Thomas Pickering	0
How demagogues destroy democracy: A step-by-step global guide	0
Fusion power: The uncertain certainty	0
Introduction: Securing elections, democracy, and the information ecosystem in a critical political year	0
And the winners of our fiction contest are …	0
Creating a model democratic alternative to the surveillance state	0
Does ‘net zero’ mean zero cows?	0
Introduction: How to stop the next pandemic	0
Introduction: How the Trump administration has upended international relations and increased existential risk	0
United States nuclear weapons, 2026	0
The climate consequences of the US-Russia global realignment	0
The future of global health, without the United States	0
How to counter health misinformation when it’s coming from the top	0
Climate anxiety is not a mental health problem. But we should still treat it as one	0
Chinese nuclear weapons, 2024	0
Is the AMOC headed for a tipping point? Interview with Henk Dijkstra	0
How Fukushima’s radioactive fallout in Tokyo was concealed from the public	0
The trouble with Taiwan	0
Fukushima: Lessons learned from a devastating “near-miss”	0
Looming climate doomsday demands creativity, ambition, and societal transformation	0
The United States and stability in the Taiwan Strait	0
A reality check and a way forward for the global governance of artificial intelligence	0
Will AI make us crazy?	0
Washington should pursue trilateral arms control	0
Remote monitoring: Verifying geographical arms limits	0