Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,

DAN DROLLETTE JR.

Introduction: What you can do to turn back the hands of the Clock

Those who believe that they can succeed are usually the ones who do. In preparation for the Doomsday Clock announcement on January 23rd this entire issue of the premium magazine is available to read to everyone. Get started today with this introduction from executive editor Dan Drollette, Jr. Read more.

DAN DROLLETTE JR.
Interview with Sneha Revanur, “the Greta Thunberg of AI”

Whatever kind of AI is out there today is what teenagers and young college students are going to inherit tomorrow. Which is why 900 of them came together in “Encode Justice.” Read more.

JESSICA MCKENZIE
Bill McKibben explains what individuals can do to win the climate fight. Together.

Forty years from now, humans will run the planet on sun and wind, because they’re such cheap energy sources. But if it takes forty years to get there, it’ll be a broken planet we run on sun and wind. “So the climate movement’s job is to catalyze that reaction, to make it happen faster than sheer economics would do.” Read more.

JOHN MECKLIN
Interview: California Congressman Ted Lieu on what you can do about existential threats

The best ways to influence your elected officials, from the point-of-view of an elected official. Read more.

FRIDA BERRIGAN
How my Gen Z students learned to start worrying and dismantle the Bomb

A life-long opponent of nuclear weapons reflects on intergenerational lessons about activism, and teaching college students to embrace their curiosity, and their fear, on the way to saving the world. ​​​​​Read more.

JESSICA MCKENZIE
“The world has already ended”: Britt Wray on living with the horror and trauma of climate crisis

It would be great for people to just have open-minded conversations with others about the climate crisis and what it means for them as a starting point. “But people’s defenses do go up if you start facting them over the head and trying to tell them what to do,” says the author of Generation Dread. “I look at this more as a project to support those in need than it is to kind of convert those who are in other places.” Read more.

KATHLEEN SULLIVAN, MATTHEW BREAY BOLTON
Nuclear-free NYC: How New Yorkers are disarming the legacies of the Manhattan Project​​​​​​

Two of the people behind some of the most progressive nuclear disarmament legislation of any major city in the United States show what others can do to bring nuclear abolitionism home. They also give a sense of New York’s long history as a hotbed of anti-nuclear activism. Read more.

CHRISTIANA FIGUERES
Why a mindset of stubborn optimism about the climate crisis is needed, now more than ever​​​​​​

When it comes to climate change, there has been dramatic progress towards a number of positive tipping points that could combine into a self-reinforcing cascade of positive change. Consequently, there is reason for stubborn optimism—a most useful tool in a most challenging climate. Read more.

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