Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Article	Citations
A pandemic of bad science	19
Russian nuclear forces, 2020	18
The Swiss cheese model for mitigating online misinformation	18
Does wood bioenergy help or harm the climate?	17
United States nuclear weapons, 2021	15
The war in Ukraine shows the game-changing effect of drones depends on the game	11
Russian nuclear weapons, 2021	11
Countries have more than 100 laws on the books to combat misinformation. How well do they work?	11
North Korean nuclear weapons, 2021	9
Russian nuclear weapons, 2022	8
Chinese nuclear forces, 2020	8
Meme warfare: AI countermeasures to disinformation should focus on popular, not perfect, fakes	7
How to protect the world from ultra-targeted biological weapons	7
Assessing the US government response to the coronavirus	6
United States nuclear weapons, 2023	6
North Korean nuclear weapons, 2022	6
Distressing a system in distress: global nuclear order and Russia’s war against Ukraine	6
The climate awakening of global capital	6
The climate risks of China’s Belt and Road Initiative	6
Pakistani nuclear weapons, 2021	6
Do Germany and the Netherlands want to say goodbye to US nuclear weapons?	6
Indian nuclear forces, 2020	5
Sea level rise and beyond: Is the US military prepared for climate change?	5
Chinese nuclear weapons, 2021	5
Chinese nuclear weapons, 2023	4

“Sustainable” biomass: A paper tiger when it comes to reducing carbon emissions	4
Twenty-first century perspectives on the Biological Weapon Convention: Continued relevance or toothless paper tiger	4
Can small modular reactors help mitigate climate change?	4
How Joe Biden can use confidence-building measures for military uses of AI	4
Israeli nuclear weapons, 2021	4
However the pandemic unfolds, it’s time for oil use to peak—and society to prepare for the fallout	4
Indian nuclear weapons, 2022	3
Why the atomic bombing of Hiroshima would be illegal today	3
Financing a low-carbon revolution	3
One if by invasion, two if by coercion: US military capacity to protect Taiwan from China	3
“What about China?” and the threat to US–Russian nuclear arms control	3
Stolen billions from errant mouse clicks: Crypto requires new approaches to attack money-laundering	3
Nuclear war, public health, the COVID-19 epidemic: Lessons for prevention, preparation, mitigation, and education	3
How we know the Earth is warming and humans are responsible	3
China is speeding up its plutonium recycling programs	3
Plant power: Burning biomass instead of coal can help fight climate change—but only if done right	3
Cis-lunar space and the security dilemma	3
The long view: Strategic arms control after the New START Treaty	2
The final countdown to site selection for Canada’s nuclear waste geologic repository	2
2011: Chernobyl 25 years later: Many lessons learned	2
An extended interview with Christopher Nolan, director of Oppenheimer	2
When burning wood to generate energy makes climate sense	2
Nuclear forensics: How science helps stop the trafficking of nuclear materials	2
French nuclear weapons, 2023	2
Putin’s psychology and nuclear weapons: The fundamentalist mindset	2
United States nuclear weapons, 2022	2
Legal and political myths of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons	2
United Kingdom nuclear weapons, 2021	2
Reaching for the stars: The case for cooperative governance of directed energy technologies	2
Russian nuclear weapons, 2023	2
Contending with climate change: The next 25 years	1
1958: Only world government can prevent the war nobody can win	1
2016: Putin: The one-man show the West doesn’t understand	1
Dear President Biden: You should save, not revoke, Section 230	1
Long-duration energy storage for reliable renewable electricity: The realistic possibilities	1
A just transition for US workers is within reach	1
Nuclear fear: The irrational obstacle to real climate action	1
How bitcoin makes burning fossil fuels more profitable than ever	1
Climate change and water scarcity will increase risk of nuclear catastrophe in South Asia	1
Nuclear energy: A distraction on the road to climate solutions	1
2012: An elemental force: Uranium production in Africa, and what it means to be nuclear	1
The United States and stability in the Taiwan Strait	1
Making the transition to a green economy: What is our responsibility as citizens?	1
Redefining the wildfire problem and scaling solutions to meet the challenge	1
The complicating role of the private sector in space	1
Over the hump: Have we reached the peak of carbon emissions?	1
China and the United States: It’s a Cold War, but don’t panic	1
I gave my baby tooth to science: Project Sunshine’s role in the Limited Test Ban Treaty and cutting-edge pollution research	1
Why Biden should push for ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty	1
Climate change should be recognized for what it is: An issue of national security	1

Microchips in humans: Consumer-friendly app, or new frontier in surveillance?	1
After Putin – what?	1
Is nuclear power sustainable in a carbon-free world? The case of Sweden	1
How Biden can advance nuclear arms control and stability with Russia and China	1
Interview: CalPERS’ Anne Simpson on the climate change power of investment managers	1
Despite challenges, US-Russian nuclear arms control has its benefits	1
Why US-Saudi Arabia relations will continue to be close, even when climate action reduces demand for oil	1
Opportunities for US-Russian collaboration on the safe disposal of nuclear waste	1
Why Biden should abandon the great power competition narrative	1
To build climate progress on time scales that matter, Biden should be Biden	1
A US history of not conducting cyber attacks	1
Not your grandparents’ Cold War: Why America should emphasize economic rather than military strategies in its rivalry with China	0
UNSCOM’s work to uncover Iraq’s illicit biological weapons program: A primer	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
UNSCOM: A successful experiment in disarmament	0
Popping the chatbot hype balloon	0
Avoiding an unintentional space war: Lessons from Cold War nuclear diplomacy	0
Brian Brettschneider: How climate change has already arrived in the Arctic	0
The trouble with Taiwan	0
Oppenheimer—“A very mysterious and delphic character.” Interview with Kai Bird, author of American Prometheus	0
Introduction: how to negotiate the China-Taiwan impasse	0
“He did not speak the ordinary language”: Memories of Oppie from a Manhattan Project physicist	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
It’s time to reignite US-Russia cooperation in space. Nuclear power may hold the key	0
Nuclear-free NYC: How New Yorkers are disarming the legacies of the Manhattan Project	0
Sure, deter China—but manage risk with North Korea, too	0
How can the Biden administration reduce scientific disinformation? Slow the high-pressure pace of scientific publishing	0
Collateral damage: American civilian survivors of the 1945 Trinity test	0
Will AI make us crazy?	0
Oppenheimer: The man behind the movie	0
Building a nuclear off-ramp following the war in Ukraine	0
Puzzling out the Iraqi biological weapons program	0
Between two wars	0
Follow the money: What the sources of Jiankui He’s funding reveal about what Beijing authorities knew about illegal CRISPR babies, and when they knew it	0
Introduction: Climate change—where are we now?	0
Nuclear weapons sharing, 2023	0
Instead of reforming Facebook, should we just build something else?	0
What a Cold War crisis over Taiwan could tell us about China-Russia relations today	0
2000: North Korea: No bygones at Yongbyon	0
How my Gen Z students learned to start worrying and dismantle the Bomb	0
Introduction: The brave new world of the high-tech surveillance state	0
Fukushima: Lessons learned from a devastating “near-miss”	0
Facts and opinions about climate change	0
Interview with Eric Schlosser: Why we can’t trust the government’s figures about nuclear close calls	0
Book excerpt—Catastrophic climate change: Lessons from the dinosaurs	0
Interview with Graham Allison: Are the United States and China charging into Thucydides’s trap?	0
Nerds, ninjas, and neutrons: The story of the Nuclear Emergency Support Team	0
1947: How the American people feel about the atomic bomb	0
Introduction – Russia: what to expect next?	0
The future of technology: Lessons from China	0
A new transatlantic division of labor could save billions every year!	0
Climate anxiety is not a mental health problem. But we should still treat it as one	0
A perspective on UNSCOM culture	0
1992: Keep peace by pooling armies	0
Why what happened to Oppenheimer then is relevant now	0
Peter Davis of the British Antarctic survey on changes in the Thwaites Glacier	0
Blockchain beyond cryptocurrency: A revolution in information management and international security	0
Buckle up: We are in for a bumpy ride. An interview with Royal Astronomer Martin Rees	0
Interview: California Congressman Ted Lieu on what you, as a citizen, can do about existential threats	0
The history of nuclear power’s imagined future: Plutonium’s journey from asset to waste	0
Interview: Emerging military technology expert Paul Scharre on global power dynamics in the AI age	0
What do ordinary Russians think? Interview with a Russian independent reporter	0
Diversification from Russian nuclear fuel requires market-oriented solutions	0
Exchanging atoms for influence: Competition in Southeast Asia’s nuclear market	0
Deterring a Chinese military attack on Taiwan	0
Introduction: Why some renewable technologies will perish in – and others survive – the “Valley of Death”	0
Pakistan nuclear weapons, 2023	0
A China-US war in space: The after-action report	0
Shorter, warmer winters, less snow. What next? Q&A with biologist Pamela Templer	0
If you worry about humanity, you should be more scared of humans than of AI	0
Machine learning improves satellite imagery analysis of North Korean nuclear activity	0
Oppenheimer’s tragedy—and ours	0
Beatrice Fihn: How to implement the nuclear weapons ban treaty	0
Tom Steyer on clean energy: It’s where the big money is going	0
Why President Biden needs to revisit—and reduce—his defense budget	0
The Oppenheimer case: A study in the abuse of law	0
Nobel chemistry laureate Jennifer Doudna on the promise and peril of the genetic editing revolution	0
Perspectives on UNSCOM and UNMOVIC: An interview with Nikita Smidovich	0
Introduction: What you can do to turn back the hands of the Clock	0
The edge of our existence	0

Introduction: Can we grow and burn our way out of climate change?	0
An ambitious arms control agenda requires a new organization equal to the task	0
Interview with Sam West, founder of the Museum of Failure	0
Science diplomacy: The essential interdisciplinary approach	0
Alan Miller: How the News Literacy Project teaches schoolchildren (and adults) to dismiss and debunk internet disinformation	0
Interview: Robert Latiff on the worsening international security situation in space	0
AI and atoms: How artificial intelligence is revolutionizing nuclear material production	0
Climate change action requires … actual action	0
Where climate journalism is now: Interview with Emily Atkin, the fire behind the Heated climate newsletter	0
How to avoid nuclear war with China	0
Introduction: The unintended—and undermanaged—consequences of blockchain and cryptocurrency	0
Correction	0
1952: Ten years after	0
2002: Nuclear gamblers	0
Introduction: Can the United States and China co-exist in the 21st century? Will they?	0
1975: All in our time: A foul and awesome display	0
In Germany, the energy transition continues	0
Introduction: UNSCOM and the future of WMD verification	0
How to deal with an AI near-miss: Look to the skies	0
“Like writing the biography of a ghost”—Interview with Jeff Goodell, author of The Heat Will Kill You First	0
1961: The neutron bomb	0
Correction	0
Siegfried Hecker on remembering history while planning the future of nuclear arms control	0
An innovative and determined future for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists	0
Interview: Diane Randall, director general of the Friends Committee on National Legislation, discusses restraining the US defense budget	0
Why the final frontier should not become the final battleground	0
Conditional restraint: Why the India-Pakistan Kargil War is not a case of nuclear deterrence	0
Able Archer: How close of a call was it?	0
1959: Science and art	0
Chinese nuclear weapons, 2024	0
Russia’s economy is much more than a “big gas station.” Under sanctions, that’s now its biggest problem	0
Introduction: Advice for a new administration facing difficult times	0
1992: What is to be done?	0
Trust but verify: How to get there by using next-generation nuclear verification and warhead dismantlement techniques	0
A reality check and a way forward for the global governance of artificial intelligence	0
1960: Science and party politics	0
“It’s a different kind of world we’re living in now”: Interview with Francis Fukuyama	0
Wood-burning: Carbon hero or carbon villain. Q&A with forest modeling scientist Michael Ter-Mikaelian	0
How countries can build on UNSCOM’s legacy to solve today’s problems	0
Renewable ammonia: The future of fuels?	0
Introduction: The hype, peril, and promise of artificial intelligence	0
2005: The bioterrorist cookbook	0
The president needs to hit the ground running on climate	0
To reassure Taiwan and deter China, the United States should learn from history	0
1950: What the scientists are saying	0
Creating a model democratic alternative to the surveillance state	0
Monitoring Iraq’s dual-use capabilities: An interview with Gabriele Kraatz-Wadsack	0
Global and regional confrontation in South and Southeast Asia	0
2004: City on fire	0
Offshore wind: Poised for the big time. An interview with Anthony Kirincich	0
Oppenheimer Replies	0
Bill McKibben explains what individuals can do to win the climate fight. Together	0
Bulletin statement on the Energy Department’s Oppenheimer decision	0
Biden should rethink US policy on low-yield nuclear weapons	0
Some long-term effects of UNSCOM: People are important, or, therein lies much of the problem	0
Remote monitoring: Verifying geographical arms limits	0
The five things that must happen for renewables to fit into the grid: Interview with Greg Nemet	0
1995: Hiroshima Memories: One sunny day, a young girl learned about darkness	0
1946: Can air or water be exploded?	0
The climate change evidence right before our eyes. And a note on COVID-19	0
The United States needs to cut military spending and shift money to two pressing threats: Pandemics and climate change	0
The high-tech surveillance state is not restricted to China: Interview with Maya Wang of Human Rights Watch	0
Introduction: Climate action in the general interest	0
Interview with Sneha Revanur, “the Greta Thunberg of AI”	0
After the fall: Bitcoin’s true legacy may be blockchain technology	0
Interview with Susan Solomon: The healing of the ozone hole, and what else we can learn from atmospheric near-misses	0
Introduction: How to dial back a disinformation dystopia	0
Lessons to be drawn from the search for Iraqi WMD	0
Laying the groundwork for long-duration energy storage	0
How Biden can say goodbye to “America First” on nuclear issues	0
Why a mind-set of stubborn optimism about the climate crisis is needed, now more than ever	0
Water recommendation for the new administration	0
Burning biomass: A Drax-tic idea, and bad for environmental justice	0
Lessons learned in blood: Why we fail to use near-misses to prevent man-made disasters	0
Preventing the preventable: Strengthening international controls to thwart radiological terrorism	0
Nichols presents charges	0
Transforming our nuclear future with ridiculous ideas	0
Why will some promising renewables technologies enter a “Valley of Death,” from which they never emerge?	0
Space Force: Fact or fiction?	0
1956: Science and our times	0
1978: Is mankind warming the Earth?	0
Charging ahead: Steven Chu, Nobel Prize-winner and former energy secretary, on today’s battery research—and more	0
Introduction: Near-misses, close calls, and early warnings	0
How a US defense secretary came to support the abolition of nuclear weapons	0
How the renewables revolution can move from catchphrase to reality	0
“The world has already ended”: Britt Wray on living with the horror and trauma of climate crisis	0
Sanctioning Russia’s oligarchs – with shame	0
Interview: Tom Collina of the Ploughshares Fund on the politics of defense spending	0
Memo to the president: Reimaging public health preparedness and response	0
Introduction: Can we make overspending on the military politically costly?	0