Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, September 28, 2023
Posted: 28th September 2023
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CLIMATE CHANGE
A glass of wine with your climate crisis?
Forget about the canary in the coal mine. It’s the chardonnay in the wine cellar you should be worried about. Read more.
NUCLEAR RISK
Over-polluting and under-reporting: A look inside Russia’s dirty fossil fuel industry
Russia’s oil and gas operations leak an unusually high amount of methane into the atmosphere, and Putin’s war in Ukraine has made things worse. Read more.
DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES
Merck’s COVID drug may be creating transmissible mutated viruses
A new study has raised concerns about a drug used to treat COVID-19 that could lead to new dangerous variants and extend the pandemic. Read more.
Bulletin Annual Gathering 2023
Featuring a keynote conversation with Christopher Nolan, this year’s Conversations Before Midnight will connect you virtually to high-level discussions with world-renowned experts on a variety of topics including nuclear risk, climate change, disruptive technologies, and biosecurity.
IN THE NEWS
NIH upholds controversial plan to step up oversight of foreign collaborators
The US National Institutes of Health tweaked its new policy after an outcry from researchers, but is planning to forge ahead. For insight on this development, Nature turned to David Relman, a member of the Bulletin’s Science and Security Board and co-chair of the Bulletin’s Pathogens Project. —V8JM”>Read more.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“The Doomsday Clock today signals a higher risk of the end of humankind than in 1953, when both the United States and the Soviet Union conducted dramatic above-ground tests of nuclear weapons.”
— Eric Cheung, Brad Lendon and Ivan Watson, “Exclusive: Satellite images show increased activity at nuclear test sites in Russia, China and US,” CNN
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