Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Papers
(The TQCC of Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
We cannot afford another lost year for food and climate action66
“He did not speak the ordinary language”: Memories of Oppie from a Manhattan Project physicist35
Introduction: Why some renewable technologies will perish in – and others survive – the “Valley of Death”17
An extended interview with Christopher Nolan, director of Oppenheimer16
Machine learning improves satellite imagery analysis of North Korean nuclear activity15
Correction13
“Sustainable” biomass: A paper tiger when it comes to reducing carbon emissions13
Interview with Susan Solomon: The healing of the ozone hole, and what else we can learn from atmospheric near-misses12
Final thoughts: The fragile connection of safety and science in the geological disposal of radioactive waste9
Constitutional mistakes of the past can tyrannize the present—But we can fix them8
How we know Antarctica is rapidly losing more ice8
To reassure Taiwan and deter China, the United States should learn from history8
The impact of DOGE’s funding cuts on biomedical research, from the point of view of former NIH director Monica Bertagnolli7
Nichols presents charges7
Interview with Sam West, founder of the Museum of Failure7
Russian nuclear weapons, 20257
RFK Jr.’s presidential ambitions may have fallen short, but his anti-vax beliefs are winning in many statehouses7
Nuclear-free NYC: How New Yorkers are disarming the legacies of the Manhattan Project7
“Like writing the biography of a ghost”—Interview with Jeff Goodell, author of The Heat Will Kill You First7
United Kingdom nuclear weapons, 20246
Oppenheimer’s tragedy—and ours6
Cyberstorm on the horizon: David Sanger on what two recent breaches reveal about modern warfare6
Nuclear weapons sharing, 20236
Michael Mann, on how the second US withdrawal from the Paris agreement may alter the world’s climate change landscape6
North Korea: A renewed flash point or continuity of the status quo?5
The path to compulsory voting5
Oppenheimer Replies4
Chinese nuclear weapons, 20254
Regenerative agriculture sequesters carbon—But that’s not the only benefit and shouldn’t be the only goal4
Preserving the nuclear test ban after Russia revoked its CTBT ratification3
North Korean nuclear weapons, 20243
Russian nuclear weapons, 20223
Interview: Lawrence Norden on US election security3
Introduction: (Almost) everything you wanted to know about tipping points, but were too afraid to ask3
Introduction: Bringing the world’s food production in line with global climate goals3
Fiona Hill: What Putin (and Trump?) might do next, after Ukraine3
“Expertise is not only not valued by this administration, it’s inherently suspicious to them”—Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman3
Cis-lunar space and the security dilemma3
AI misinformation detectors can’t save us from tyranny—at least not yet3
Peak water in an era of climate change3
Glass and ceramic nuclear waste forms: The scientific battle3
Putin’s psychology and nuclear weapons: The fundamentalist mindset3
Interview: Emerging military technology expert Paul Scharre on global power dynamics in the AI age3
“The world has already ended”: Britt Wray on living with the horror and trauma of climate crisis3
Bulletin statement on the Energy Department’s Oppenheimer decision2
Laying the groundwork for long-duration energy storage2
Interview with Sneha Revanur, “the Greta Thunberg of AI”2
The war in Ukraine shows the game-changing effect of drones depends on the game2
Environmental impacts of underground nuclear weapons testing2
Stolen billions from errant mouse clicks: Crypto requires new approaches to attack money-laundering2
Introduction: Can we grow and burn our way out of climate change?2
The final countdown to site selection for Canada’s nuclear waste geologic repository2
Oppenheimer: The man behind the movie2
French nuclear weapons, 20232
How to leverage positive tipping points for climate action2
Microchips in humans: Consumer-friendly app, or new frontier in surveillance?2
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