The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, August 28, 2023
Posted: 28th August 2023
August 28, 2023
CLIMATE CHANGE
Who should pay for wildfire prevention?
Big utility companies have been responsible for hundreds of devastating wildfires in the American West over the past decade. Even when the law allows victims to sue large utility companies for damages, it’s ordinary residents who end up footing the bill for adaptation. Read more.
CLIMATE CHANGE
Managed to death: How Canada turned its forests into a carbon bomb
As extreme as this year’s wildfire emissions have been, they are just the latest escalation in a multi-decade flood of CO2 pouring out of Canada’s “managed” forests and forestry, writes climate analyst Barry Saxifrage. Read more.
NUCLEAR RISK
There should be no Saudi uranium enrichment
You would think the Saudi insistence on inclusion of enrichment would be a non-starter for a US-Saudi “123” agreement for nuclear cooperation, writes physicist Victor Gilinsky. “But such common sense is a thin reed to lean on when it comes to Washington nuclear politics.” Read more.
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NUCLEAR RISK
Nuclear Notebook: French nuclear weapons, 2023
How many nuclear weapons does France have in 2023? Nuclear experts from the Federation of American Scientists share the latest estimates. Read more.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Today, only nine countries have nuclear weapons. That outcome was hardly inevitable, and the story of how we arrived there holds important lessons for AI.”
— Carl Robichaud, “The Puzzle of Non-Proliferation,” Asterisk Mag
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