Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Article	Citations
We cannot afford another lost year for food and climate action	61
“He did not speak the ordinary language”: Memories of Oppie from a Manhattan Project physicist	35
Introduction: Why some renewable technologies will perish in – and others survive – the “Valley of Death”	17
An extended interview with Christopher Nolan, director of Oppenheimer	16
Machine learning improves satellite imagery analysis of North Korean nuclear activity	13
Final thoughts: The fragile connection of safety and science in the geological disposal of radioactive waste	12
Correction	12
“Sustainable” biomass: A paper tiger when it comes to reducing carbon emissions	11
Russian nuclear weapons, 2025	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
Nichols presents charges	7
The impact of DOGE’s funding cuts on biomedical research, from the point of view of former NIH director Monica Bertagnolli	7
Nuclear-free NYC: How New Yorkers are disarming the legacies of the Manhattan Project	7
To reassure Taiwan and deter China, the United States should learn from history	7
“Like writing the biography of a ghost”—Interview with Jeff Goodell, author of The Heat Will Kill You First	7
How we know Antarctica is rapidly losing more ice	7
Cyberstorm on the horizon: David Sanger on what two recent breaches reveal about modern warfare	6
Interview with Sam West, founder of the Museum of Failure	6
Michael Mann, on how the second US withdrawal from the Paris agreement may alter the world’s climate change landscape	6
RFK Jr.’s presidential ambitions may have fallen short, but his anti-vax beliefs are winning in many statehouses	6
Oppenheimer’s tragedy—and ours	5
United Kingdom nuclear weapons, 2024	5
The path to compulsory voting	5
Nuclear weapons sharing, 2023	5

North Korea: A renewed flash point or continuity of the status quo?	5
Chinese nuclear weapons, 2025	4
Oppenheimer Replies	4
Nuclear fear: The irrational obstacle to real climate action	4
Interview: Emerging military technology expert Paul Scharre on global power dynamics in the AI age	3
Russian nuclear weapons, 2022	3
AI misinformation detectors can’t save us from tyranny—at least not yet	3
“The world has already ended”: Britt Wray on living with the horror and trauma of climate crisis	3
Regenerative agriculture sequesters carbon—But that’s not the only benefit and shouldn’t be the only goal	3
Introduction: (Almost) everything you wanted to know about tipping points, but were too afraid to ask	3
Cis-lunar space and the security dilemma	3
Interview: Lawrence Norden on US election security	3
Introduction: Bringing the world’s food production in line with global climate goals	3
Stolen billions from errant mouse clicks: Crypto requires new approaches to attack money-laundering	2
Laying the groundwork for long-duration energy storage	2
The five things that must happen for renewables to fit into the grid: Interview with Greg Nemet	2
Bulletin statement on the Energy Department’s Oppenheimer decision	2
“Expertise is not only not valued by this administration, it’s inherently suspicious to them”—Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman	2
Peak water in an era of climate change	2
How to leverage positive tipping points for climate action	2
Environmental impacts of underground nuclear weapons testing	2
The war in Ukraine shows the game-changing effect of drones depends on the game	2
Preserving the nuclear test ban after Russia revoked its CTBT ratification	2
Putin’s psychology and nuclear weapons: The fundamentalist mindset	2
Fiona Hill: What Putin (and Trump?) might do next, after Ukraine	2
French nuclear weapons, 2023	2
How the renewables revolution can move from catchphrase to reality	2
Interview with Sneha Revanur, “the Greta Thunberg of AI”	2
Glass and ceramic nuclear waste forms: The scientific battle	2
North Korean nuclear weapons, 2024	2
Oppenheimer: The man behind the movie	2
Introduction: Can we grow and burn our way out of climate change?	1
Will Israel strike Iran’s nuclear facilities with US support?	1
What do we really know about urban agriculture’s impact on people, places, and the planet?	1
Oppenheimer—“A very mysterious and delphic character.” Interview with Kai Bird, author of American Prometheus	1
Sonia Shah on pandemics and pushback: Lessons from the COVID experience	1
Book excerpt—Catastrophic climate change: Lessons from the dinosaurs	1
Nuclear testing in the 21st century—legacy, tensions, and risks	1
Burning biomass: A Drax-tic idea, and bad for environmental justice	1
Not your grandparents’ Cold War: Why America should emphasize economic rather than military strategies in its rivalry with China	1
Microchips in humans: Consumer-friendly app, or new frontier in surveillance?	1
We need to act now to ensure global food security, and reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions	1
The final countdown to site selection for Canada’s nuclear waste geologic repository	1
Indian nuclear weapons, 2024	1
Chinese nuclear weapons, 2021	1
Introduction: Near-misses, close calls, and early warnings	1
Trust but verify: How to get there by using next-generation nuclear verification and warhead dismantlement techniques	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
Able Archer: How close of a call was it?	1

The Oppenheimer case: A study in the abuse of law	1
To do or not to do: Pyongyang’s seventh nuclear test calculations	1
Why a mind-set of stubborn optimism about the climate crisis is needed, now more than ever	1
Will the Trump administration attempt to annex Greenland, Canada, or somewhere else? A prominent historian’s take	1
Introduction: Climate change—where are we now?	1
Climate change will surprise us, but so-called ‘tipping points’ may lead us astray	1
Exchanging atoms for influence: Competition in Southeast Asia’s nuclear market	1
Is nuclear power sustainable in a carbon-free world? The case of Sweden	1
Global and regional confrontation in South and Southeast Asia	1
Introduction: how to negotiate the China-Taiwan impasse	1
The horrors of nuclear weapons testing	1
Despite challenges, US-Russian nuclear arms control has its benefits	1
United States nuclear weapons, 2022	1
Nerds, ninjas, and neutrons: The story of the Nuclear Emergency Support Team	1
How AI can slow the rise of antibiotic-resistant “superbugs”	0
Becoming a responsible ancestor	0
Collateral damage: American civilian survivors of the 1945 Trinity test	0
Introduction: What you can do to turn back the hands of the Clock	0
Climate anxiety is not a mental health problem. But we should still treat it as one	0
“It’s a different kind of world we’re living in now”: Interview with Francis Fukuyama	0
A China-US war in space: The after-action report	0
Building a nuclear off-ramp following the war in Ukraine	0
Lessons from former arms control negotiators	0
Creating a model democratic alternative to the surveillance state	0
An interview about the 2024 election with Harper Reed, chief technology officer for Obama 2012	0
What a Cold War crisis over Taiwan could tell us about China-Russia relations today	0
Introduction – Russia: what to expect next?	0
Blockchain beyond cryptocurrency: A revolution in information management and international security	0
North Korean nuclear weapons, 2022	0
Interview: Robert Latiff on the worsening international security situation in space	0
Why what happened to Oppenheimer then is relevant now	0
French nuclear weapons, 2025	0
Charging ahead: Steven Chu, Nobel Prize-winner and former energy secretary, on today’s battery research—and more	0
Why will some promising renewables technologies enter a “Valley of Death,” from which they never emerge?	0
United States nuclear weapons, 2024	0
Interview: California Congressman Ted Lieu on what you, as a citizen, can do about existential threats	0
Does wood bioenergy help or harm the climate?	0
Autocracy and the university in America today	0
The high-tech surveillance state is not restricted to China: Interview with Maya Wang of Human Rights Watch	0
After ITER: What China and others are doing in fusion. Interview with MIT’s Dennis Whyte	0
How my Gen Z students learned to start worrying and dismantle the Bomb	0
Pandemic risks: Are there some genetic experiments that simply should not be done?	0
Sure, deter China—but manage risk with North Korea, too	0
Introduction: The unintended—and undermanaged—consequences of blockchain and cryptocurrency	0
What do ordinary Russians think? Interview with a Russian independent reporter	0
Why the final frontier should not become the final battleground	0
The fuel supply quandary of fusion power reactors	0
Russia’s economy is much more than a “big gas station.” Under sanctions, that’s now its biggest problem	0
Interview with Eric Schlosser: Why we can’t trust the government’s figures about nuclear close calls	0
Chinese nuclear weapons, 2024	0
After Putin – what?	0
The logic for US ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty	0
Renewable ammonia: The future of fuels?	0
Sociotechnical risks posed by the geologic disposal of weapons plutonium	0
Chinese nuclear weapons, 2023	0
Wood-burning: Carbon hero or carbon villain. Q&A with forest modeling scientist Michael Ter-Mikaelian	0
Where climate journalism is now: Interview with Emily Atkin, the fire behind the Heated climate newsletter	0
Ferreting out the truth about fusion: Interview with Bob Rosner	0
Conditional restraint: Why the India-Pakistan Kargil War is not a case of nuclear deterrence	0
Praying for the ice (and snow, and water) as the climate changes	0
A reality check and a way forward for the global governance of artificial intelligence	0
Will the next world war begin in orbit? Jonathan McDowell on strategic competition in space	0
Obama’s science adviser on Trump’s science cuts: ”The system will starve”	0
Greenland ice loss cannot be stopped—but it can and must be slowed	0
Introduction: Can the United States and China co-exist in the 21st century? Will they?	0
Pandemics, public health, and popular support: What history can tell us	0
Introduction: Fusion, the next big thing—again?	0
Introduction: The hype, peril, and promise of artificial intelligence	0
How Fukushima’s radioactive fallout in Tokyo was concealed from the public	0
Russian nuclear weapons, 2023	0
Introduction: How the Trump administration has upended international relations and increased existential risk	0
Offshore wind: Poised for the big time. An interview with Anthony Kirincich	0
The future of technology: Lessons from China	0
The United States and stability in the Taiwan Strait	0
The complicating role of the private sector in space	0
What if potatoes grew on trees? An interview with the Breadfruit Institute’s Diane Ragone	0
The Alps’ iconic glaciers are melting, but there’s still time to save the biggest	0
Israeli nuclear weapons, 2021	0
The trouble with Taiwan	0
Fusion power: The uncertain certainty	0

Harvard’s Graham Allison on the second Trump administration and the international security order	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
Introduction: Possible flashpoints for the next major conflict	0
Pakistan nuclear weapons, 2023	0
‘Fragile, impermanent things’: Joseph Tainter on what makes civilizations fall	0
Apocalypse now? Mortality and mental health correlates of the Doomsday Clock	0
Nuclear energy: A distraction on the road to climate solutions	0
Containment vs. confrontation: Trump 2.0 and a nuclear Iran	0
Six ways AI could cause the next big war, and why it probably won’t	0
Deterring a Chinese military attack on Taiwan	0
How to deal with an AI near-miss: Look to the skies	0
How demagogues destroy democracy: A step-by-step global guide	0
The campaign volunteer who used AI to help swing Pakistan’s elections: Interview with Jibran Ilyas	0
Redefining the wildfire problem and scaling solutions to meet the challenge	0
Long-duration energy storage for reliable renewable electricity: The realistic possibilities	0
One if by invasion, two if by coercion: US military capacity to protect Taiwan from China	0
Orville Schell on China vs. Taiwan in the Trump 2.0 era	0
Carlos Nobre on tipping points in the Amazon rainforest	0
Plant power: Burning biomass instead of coal can help fight climate change—but only if done right	0
Water and war	0
Popping the chatbot hype balloon	0
Introduction: Securing elections, democracy, and the information ecosystem in a critical political year	0
Indian nuclear weapons, 2022	0
Golden Dome and arms control: Impediment or opportunity?	0
(Trying to) keep it cool: Vladimir Romanovsky on permafrost fieldwork	0
The entanglement of fusion energy research and bombs	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
Diversification from Russian nuclear fuel requires market-oriented solutions	0
Bill McKibben explains what individuals can do to win the climate fight. Together	0
The climate consequences of the US-Russia global realignment	0
“H is For Hope” sounded a lot better than “D is For Despair”: Interview with Elizabeth Kolbert about climate change	0
Does ‘net zero’ mean zero cows?	0
Climate change and water scarcity will increase risk of nuclear catastrophe in South Asia	0
Pakistan nuclear weapons, 2025	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
The future of global health, without the United States	0
Amplifying doubt: How Russian trolls leveraged pandemic uncertainty for strategic gain	0
United States nuclear weapons, 2023	0
Is the AMOC headed for a tipping point? Interview with Henk Dijkstra	0
China and the United States: It’s a Cold War, but don’t panic	0
Remote monitoring: Verifying geographical arms limits	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
New confidence-building measures can reduce tensions around subcritical tests	0
The ‘holy grail’ of pandemic preparedness: The search for a universal vaccine	0
Interview: Catherine Bertini on eliminating hunger in a changing climate	0
United States nuclear weapons, 2025	0
How bitcoin makes burning fossil fuels more profitable than ever	0
The long view: Strategic arms control after the New START Treaty	0
Small and advanced nuclear reactors: Closing the fuel cycle?	0
Will AI make us crazy?	0
Introduction: How to stop the next pandemic	0
Correction	0
Interview with Graham Allison: Are the United States and China charging into Thucydides’s trap?	0
How to avoid nuclear war with China	0
After the fall: Bitcoin’s true legacy may be blockchain technology	0
Russian nuclear weapons, 2024	0
Is Ukraine still a possible flashpoint for a larger war?	0
Sanctioning Russia’s oligarchs – with shame	0
Lessons learned in blood: Why we fail to use near-misses to prevent man-made disasters	0
When burning wood to generate energy makes climate sense	0
Distressing a system in distress: global nuclear order and Russia’s war against Ukraine	0
An overview of the fusion landscape	0
Space Force: Fact or fiction?	0
“Fusion is not a typical bet.” Interview with Silicon Valley venture capitalist Mark Coopersmith	0
A US history of not conducting cyber attacks	0
To protect democratic values, journalism must save itself	0
Is scientific reticence hindering climate understanding?	0
Fukushima: Lessons learned from a devastating “near-miss”	0
Correction	0
I gave my baby tooth to science: Project Sunshine’s role in the Limited Test Ban Treaty and cutting-edge pollution research	0
The enduring risks and new challenges of nuclear materials: A special issue dedicated to Rodney C. Ewing’s scientific and policy contributions	0
If you worry about humanity, you should be more scared of humans than of AI	0