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The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists informs the public about threats to the survival and development of humanity from nuclear weapons, climate change, and emerging technologies in the life sciences.
How impossible is the risk of nuclear escalation in Ukraine?
2024年12月20日 · Tactical nuclear weapon. In one scenario that has been discussed, Russia explodes a tactical nuclear weapon to force Ukraine to end the fighting and agree to cede Crimea and the four Ukrainian provinces that Russia is currently occupying and claiming as its own.
The best of the Bulletin’s bimonthly magazine, 2024
4 天之前 · Melting glaciers, demagogues, climate crises, fusion bombs, breadfruit trees, the Greta Thunberg of AI. Each of these subjects was at the center of articles published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ bimonthly magazine in 2024, and each of those articles was among the our best magazine articles of the year.Of course, with so many articles to choose from, some readers may disagree ...
United States nuclear weapons, 2024 - Bulletin of the Atomic …
2024年5月7日 · Between 2010 and 2018, the US government publicly disclosed the size of the nuclear weapons stockpile; however, in 2019 and 2020, the Trump administration rejected requests from the Federation of American Scientists to declassify the latest stockpile numbers (Aftergood 2019; Kristensen 2019a, 2020b).
Best biosecurity coverage of 2024 - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
1 天前 · A ‘plague’ comes before the fall: lessons from Roman history. Could a mysterious plague have spelled the end of the Roman Empire? Certainly, the 200-year Pax Romana period of prosperity and peace ended around 166 AD as a novel disease swept across Eurasia.Though the Antonin plague cannot shoulder all the blame for the fall of “eternal Rome,” the western half of the empire never ...
Nuclear Risk Archives - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Founded by scientists and engineers of the Manhattan Project in the wake of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has been alerting humanity to the danger of nuclear catastrophe since December 1945. For nearly 80 years, the Bulletin has relentlessly pursued this mission by informing the public, policymakers, and …
Nuclear Notebook - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Since 1987, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has published the Nuclear Notebook, an authoritative accounting of world nuclear arsenals compiled by top experts from the Federation of American Scientists. Today, it is prepared by Hans M. Kristensen, Matt Korda, Eliana Johns, and Mackenzie Knight of FAS. Because of its importance to …
In Depth: Nuclear Risk - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
2024年1月23日 · At our core, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is a media organization, publishing a free-access website and a bimonthly magazine. But we are much more. The Bulletin’s website, iconic Doomsday Clock, and regular events equip the public, policy makers, and scientists with the information needed to reduce man-made threats to our existence.The Bulletin focuses on three main areas: nuclear ...
Current Time - 2024 - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
2024年1月23日 · Founded in 1945 by Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and University of Chicago scientists who helped develop the first atomic weapons in the Manhattan Project, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists created the Doomsday Clock two years later, using the imagery of apocalypse (midnight) and the contemporary idiom of nuclear explosion (countdown to zero) to convey threats to humanity and the ...
About Us - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
About the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Our mission The Bulletin equips the public, policymakers, and scientists with the information needed to reduce man-made threats to our existence. About us At our core, the Bulletin is a media organization, posting free articles on its website and publishing a premium digital magazine. But we are much … Continued