Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, October 12, 2023
Posted: 12th October 2023
A ko’a, or traditional Hawaiian shrine, erected Dec. 12, 2021, in front of the entrance to the US Navy Pacific Fleet headquarters, part of demonstrations against pollution of water from a military jet fuel leak into O’ahu’s aquifer. (Photo: Bradford Nakamura)
NUCLEAR RISK
Lessons for confronting deterrence and militarism from Hawaii
As the already-robust US military presence in the Pacific expands, Hawaiians are increasingly asserting their right to live not on an “unsinkable aircraft carrier,” but as part of nature, writes a native Hawaiian researcher. Read more.
NUCLEAR RISK
An alternative to the proliferation of uranium enrichment in the Middle East
The Hamas attack on Israel will certainly complicate any nuclear agreement among Israel, the Saudis, and the US, but the nuclear fuel needs of the Middle East will have to be addressed eventually argue two nuclear security experts—one from Iran and one from the US. Read more.
DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES
How the ecological crisis of bird flu could become a human pandemic
Avian influenza has by now sickened and killed thousands of mammals and led to the deaths of tens of millions of birds. It’s an ecological disaster, but is it a pandemic threat to humans? Read more.
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IN THE NEWS
Bulletin Science and Security Board member joins FAS as director of global risk
The Bulletin congratulates Science and Security Board member Jon Wolfsthal on joining the nonprofit global policy think tank, the Federation of American Scientists (FAS). As director of global risk, Wolfsthal will help advance the organization’s mission of minimizing significant worldwide threats. Read more.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“It opens up a window to a world that to us before was just a blur.”
— Bulletin Science and Security Board member Robert Rosner on the Nobel Prize winning technique that allows scientists to monitor electrons within atoms, “Three scientists win Nobel Prize in physics for probing electrons,” The Washington Post
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