Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists February 2nd 2023
Posted: 2nd February 2023
Feb. 2, 2023
US scientists and local Marshallese discuss food shortages after those living on the Bikini Atoll were relocated to Rongerik during the United States’ 1947 Bikini Resurvey Project.
NUCLEAR RISK
What justice means to communities affected by nuclear testingAfter the US military relocated natives of Bikini Atoll in the 1940s, the Bikini community would never return home following the detonation of 23 nuclear devices. In discussions about justice for these communities, professor Rebecca Davis Gibbons says the voices of those most affected should be forefront. Read more.
BIOSECURITY
The Doomsday Clock is ticking on biosecurityIn this Defense One op-ed, biosecurity experts that help set the Doomsday Clock explain why it’s imperative that countries around the world cooperate and deepen their investments in global health and biosecurity strategies. Read more.
CLIMATE CHANGE
The pros and cons of permitting reformPermitting-reform advocates say that cutting through the bureaucratic red tape around energy and transmission projects is essential to reaching renewable energy goals. In this collection assembled by Bulletin climate editor Jessica McKenzie, six experts weigh in on what has become one of the most talked-about, divisive policy debates in climate and energy circles. Read more.
NUCLEAR RISK
Making nuclear injustice an agenda for changeTwo arms control experts recently argued in the Bulletin that the global nuclear order is fundamentally unjust. To articulate what a research agenda on nuclear injustice should look like, they invited scholars, practitioners, and abolition advocates to share their thoughts. Read more.
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CLIMATE CHANGE
Want clean energy, fast? ?Streamlining? environmental reviews could have the opposite effectNearly all proposed energy projects that aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions get environmental permits on time, with few exceptions. Read more.
IN THE NEWS
Bulletin President & CEO Rachel Bronson discusses the time on the Doomsday ClockWhy is the clock so close to midnight and how do we come back from the brink? To answer these questions, Press The Button’s podcast host Tom Collina talks with Rachel Bronson. Listen now.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
?The very late setting of the Clock now, in my view, is justified not because the current geopolitical situation is necessarily worse than it was during the Cold War, but that it is nevertheless further from what is needed because the actual level of global cooperation needed to deal with all of the existential risks facing us is higher.?
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? Simon Beard, the academic programme manager for the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at Cambridge University, “Does the Doomsday Clock actually mean anything? Experts weigh in,” Inverse
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