Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Posted: 4th August 2022
Aug. 4, 2022
President Joe Biden signs the “Consolidated Appropriations Act” on March 15, 2022. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
NUCLEAR RISK
Are US threat assessments outpacing the military threats America actually faces?Every weapon in the arsenal is now justified by claims it can help counter China, writes Joe Cirincione of the Quincy Institute. But how much do we really need? Read more.
CLIMATE CHANGE
Weaning a house and the world from fossil fuels: lessons learnedIt took climate scientist Richard Somerville just a few months to reduce his own home’s greenhouse gas emissions to near zero. Weaning the entire world from fossil fuels, however, is a staggeringly complex and difficult task. Read more.
NUCLEAR RISK
NPT Review Conference: Will it rise to the proliferation challenges?Initially scheduled for 2020 but delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s NPT Review Conference comes amid a clouded summer of potential nuclear proliferation. Read more.
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SPECIAL TOPICS
The A1 Verse: The most nuclear bunkerEvery so often, a story published on the front page of the New York Times is so appropriate to the Bulletin’s concerns that properly chosen snippets of it produce something more than journalism, something that approaches … poetry. Read more.
WHAT’S NEW AT THE BULLETIN
John Pope joins the BulletinThe Bulletin is thrilled to welcome John Pope as its first chief audience officer. Formerly the associate director of the Peace and Security Collaborative at ReThink Media, Pope has collaborated with leading national security experts, organizations, and community advocates. Read more.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Today, humanity is just one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation.”
— U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres to the Tenth Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
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