Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists November 28th 2022
Posted: 28th November 2022
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Nov. 28, 2022
Corn affected by 2013 drought in Texas. Global warming is making summer droughts in Texas longer and more severe. USDA photo by Bob NicholsCLIMATE CHANGE
Opinion: What “longtermism” gets wrong about climate changeA new movement and a popular new book by William MacAskill argue that climate change is not an existential threat to humans. That’s a dangerous claim, says philosopher and historian Émile P. Torres. Read more.
NUCLEAR RISK
Resuming New START inspections must be a critical goal of upcoming US-Russia talksOn-site inspections under New START, suspended since the COVID pandemic, must now resume to maintain the only bilateral nuclear arms control treaty between the United States and Russia says its former US chief negotiator, Rose Gottemoeller. Read more.
NUCLEAR RISK
War puts cleanup of Russia’s radioactive wrecks on iceRussia doesn’t have vessels that could remove two nuclear submarines from the Arctic Ocean floor and officials at the Norwegian Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority insist that leaks from the K-159 are only a matter of time. Read more.
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CLIMATE CHANGE
At COP27, nations agree on loss and damage fund, but at what cost?Wealthy nations caved to demands to create a fund for climate disaster relief, but some fear not enough was done to limit warming, reports The Guardian’s Fiona Harvey. Read more.
SPECIAL TOPICS
Obituary: Mike Moore, who edited the Bulletin at the dawn of the post-Cold War eraA former editor of the Bulletin passed away last month in Arizona. Mike Moore oversaw the Bulletin at a pivotal moment in nuclear weapons history, coming on just before the Soviet Union collapsed and a new relationship between the United States and Russia became a reason for hope. Read more.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“I’m just waiting for my blood work to be discharged, but the world out there should know that Ebola is real.”
— Robert Twinamasiko, an Ebola patient in recovery, ” ‘Ebola is real’: Uganda to trial vaccines and shut schools early to contain outbreak,” CNN
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