Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists March 2nd 2023
Posted: 2nd March 2023
March 2, 2023
Cooling spray ponds, cooling towers, and reactor buildings at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
(Photo: Energoatom)
NUCLEAR RISK
A year later, new dangers threaten Ukraine’s embattled Zaporizhzhia nuclear plantWater reservoir levels have dropped around the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, reinforcing the need for urgent action to ensure its safety. Read more.
NUCLEAR RISK
Legal aspects of Russia’s New START suspension provide opportunities for US policy makersRose Gottemoeller and Marshall L. Brown, Jr., who both helped negotiate the nuclear arms control treaty, outline why it is in the interest of the United States to keep a pathway open to resuming its implementation despite recent Russian actions. Read more.
BIOSECURITY
How to minimize COVID’s impacts once the federal emergency “ends”What can be done to reduce the number of hospitalizations and deaths from COVID? Promising therapies and interventions exist, write Lynn Klotz and Jonas Sandbrink. The question is whether there is the societal will to use them. Read more.
Columbia University’s Journal of International Affairs seeks submissions
The Journal of International Affairs’ editorial board seeks contributions that provide a contemporary understanding of the effects of the war in Ukraine on the rest of the world, ranging from Ukraine’s and Russia’s immediate neighbors to people and places far removed from the front.
NUCLEAR RISK
Nuclear tragedy in the Marshall IslandsMarch 1st marked the 69th anniversary of the Castle Bravo nuclear test. In this piece from last year, a former Peace Corps volunteer shares her experience seeing the impacts of US nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands conducted between 1946 and 1958—and calls for an apology. Read more.
NUCLEAR RISK
What justice means to communities affected by nuclear testingEarlier this year, the Bulletin published a roundtable on nuclear justice issues. In this piece, professor Rebecca Davis Gibbons looks at the impact of nuclear testing on the Marshallese people. Read more.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“For my family and all Marshallese families living in diaspora in Arkansas and across the United States, who sacrificed our lands, bodies, and culture for the good of mankind, we ask to be heard, to be seen, and to be treated fairly.”
— Benetick Kabua Maddison, executive director of the Marshallese Educational Initiative, in a statement on Twitter.
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